Fooleeze
Senior Member
I got a permission at an old farm house near me recently. An 1870s home, the owner says it has been detected in the past, but I was welcome to try again. They were incredibly friendly, and enjoyed talking about the history of their home.
So I visit today hoping my newer technology might find some prizes that the last detectorists missed. We'll, I was an hour or so in and hadn't found anything. I then got a loud 70s signal on the AT max, and it pinpointed at about 2 inches. The pinpointer didn't get it from the surface, so it had to be more than 2 inches. This had all of the signs of an aluminum can. But I dug it anyways...boy was I ever wrong.
A US belt buckle?!?!?! I've spent several hundred dollars to take trips to civil war camps and battlefields and never find one of those, and I pulled one out practically in my on back yard. There was no civil war activity in my neck of the woods, so a soldier carried this home with them.
The funny thing is I found almost nothing else of note in that yard. Two modern pennies, a small pin, one broken shard of a crotal bell...that's about it. But I'll take it. I guess you never know what you'll find.
I put this in the eye popping finds because of how completely out of place and unexpected this was.
So I visit today hoping my newer technology might find some prizes that the last detectorists missed. We'll, I was an hour or so in and hadn't found anything. I then got a loud 70s signal on the AT max, and it pinpointed at about 2 inches. The pinpointer didn't get it from the surface, so it had to be more than 2 inches. This had all of the signs of an aluminum can. But I dug it anyways...boy was I ever wrong.
A US belt buckle?!?!?! I've spent several hundred dollars to take trips to civil war camps and battlefields and never find one of those, and I pulled one out practically in my on back yard. There was no civil war activity in my neck of the woods, so a soldier carried this home with them.
The funny thing is I found almost nothing else of note in that yard. Two modern pennies, a small pin, one broken shard of a crotal bell...that's about it. But I'll take it. I guess you never know what you'll find.
I put this in the eye popping finds because of how completely out of place and unexpected this was.