602punch
Full Member
I am STOKED!! Living here in a major metropolitan city it's tough to find good hunting spots. This is my first researched, mapped planned hunt and I am very excited. I found several aerial maps of my neighborhood starting in 1930 all the way to 1969. At one point there was a whole neighborhood at this location. It is ginormous, not sure how long this is going to take me.
UPDATED:
Here is what the map looks like after today's 2 hour hunt.
The black box is what I planned on hunting when I got to the location, but low and behold a soccer match was in progress. So I looked at the maps again on my iphone and decided to take a different approach to stay away from everyone on the field. The pink box is where I envisioned the road continuing since it clearly does on the original image from the 40's-50's. I started at the tree in the middle where the black boxes double up and I headed down, within the first 10 minutes and about 5 yards I hit several pieces of jewelry. The gold plated earring, the shell pin, the old broach and the 25 year Bell Systems pin were all within a couple swings. I would of taken a picture, but if you can imagine a scene out of Charlie and the Chocolate factory I was literally just jumping from one to the next like an excited little kid. I actually dropped everything and called my wife. All surface finds.
Sadly that was it for the jewelry, all the coins were found after that, $2.10 worth, not sure what a good majority of them are yet but wanted to update here.
Also, I took a couple pictures of the surroundings and it looks like the entire place is sunk about a good 8-10 feet down from the rest of the area. That makes me pretty sad in finding anything original from any of the home sites. But, on the other hand, I found a nice little park right next to my house that seems to have plentiful jewelry and an abundance of soccer matches
That was my 2 hours today, ill be back to this site just about an hour everyday for the next week covering more ground.
UPDATED:
Here is what the map looks like after today's 2 hour hunt.
The black box is what I planned on hunting when I got to the location, but low and behold a soccer match was in progress. So I looked at the maps again on my iphone and decided to take a different approach to stay away from everyone on the field. The pink box is where I envisioned the road continuing since it clearly does on the original image from the 40's-50's. I started at the tree in the middle where the black boxes double up and I headed down, within the first 10 minutes and about 5 yards I hit several pieces of jewelry. The gold plated earring, the shell pin, the old broach and the 25 year Bell Systems pin were all within a couple swings. I would of taken a picture, but if you can imagine a scene out of Charlie and the Chocolate factory I was literally just jumping from one to the next like an excited little kid. I actually dropped everything and called my wife. All surface finds.
Sadly that was it for the jewelry, all the coins were found after that, $2.10 worth, not sure what a good majority of them are yet but wanted to update here.
Also, I took a couple pictures of the surroundings and it looks like the entire place is sunk about a good 8-10 feet down from the rest of the area. That makes me pretty sad in finding anything original from any of the home sites. But, on the other hand, I found a nice little park right next to my house that seems to have plentiful jewelry and an abundance of soccer matches
That was my 2 hours today, ill be back to this site just about an hour everyday for the next week covering more ground.