sfdiggerchick
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Hello there!
My brother got a metal detector a few months back and I just couldn't get enough of his reports of treasures. Be it a rusty nail or something more special like a railroad spike, coins or whatever cool thing he discovered, I wanted to know every detail!
So, my husband bought me a detector from Costco to see if I liked this hobby enough to get a better model. I did. Now I'm the happy owner of a Garrett AT Pro and my handy AT Pro Pointer! I've only been exploring our 26 acre property so far but it's been great fun!
Cool stuff I've found: a bracelet I lost last year, a couple of corroded pennies, a 2004 quarter that one of us dropped in our field, some small wrenches, railroad tie with the top broken off, a changeable screw tip, and plenty of bullet and shotgun casings.
Junk: zillions of nails, screws, wire, bolts, washers, melted metal globs, cotter pins, other assorted stuff.
Mystery Metal: All over our property I have found many, many pieces of extremely corroded metal. My curiosity has led me to this website in the hopes that someone might be able to identify what I've been finding.
MYSTERY SOLVED!!! Thank you to my NEIGHBOR SoOregonMD who let me know these are artillery fragments from army exercises back in 1945+!
Info about the mystery metal: I've found these pieces of metal laying at a variety of levels--laying on the ground or buried as deep as a foot. They are all over the place on our quarter-mile-wide property...in the field, in the woods, near our shop, far from anything. There doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason to their locations. I've found a few pieces close together but no heavy concentrations anywhere. Sizes range from less than 1/4" to 6" or more. The only thing that I can think was they were once being part of a fence post?
History of the area: we live on the outskirts of a town called White City, named for a general George White. In 1945 an enormous army training camp was created in the area some miles away, and at one point sprawled across 50k acres (Not close to our property). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_White
I mention this because I wonder if the metal I've found has something to do with Camp White?
If you have any idea what I've been finding, I would really love to know what you think!! I've attached a picture for you to look at which shows a typical collection I find during an outing.
My brother got a metal detector a few months back and I just couldn't get enough of his reports of treasures. Be it a rusty nail or something more special like a railroad spike, coins or whatever cool thing he discovered, I wanted to know every detail!
So, my husband bought me a detector from Costco to see if I liked this hobby enough to get a better model. I did. Now I'm the happy owner of a Garrett AT Pro and my handy AT Pro Pointer! I've only been exploring our 26 acre property so far but it's been great fun!
Cool stuff I've found: a bracelet I lost last year, a couple of corroded pennies, a 2004 quarter that one of us dropped in our field, some small wrenches, railroad tie with the top broken off, a changeable screw tip, and plenty of bullet and shotgun casings.
Junk: zillions of nails, screws, wire, bolts, washers, melted metal globs, cotter pins, other assorted stuff.
Mystery Metal: All over our property I have found many, many pieces of extremely corroded metal. My curiosity has led me to this website in the hopes that someone might be able to identify what I've been finding.
MYSTERY SOLVED!!! Thank you to my NEIGHBOR SoOregonMD who let me know these are artillery fragments from army exercises back in 1945+!
Info about the mystery metal: I've found these pieces of metal laying at a variety of levels--laying on the ground or buried as deep as a foot. They are all over the place on our quarter-mile-wide property...in the field, in the woods, near our shop, far from anything. There doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason to their locations. I've found a few pieces close together but no heavy concentrations anywhere. Sizes range from less than 1/4" to 6" or more. The only thing that I can think was they were once being part of a fence post?
History of the area: we live on the outskirts of a town called White City, named for a general George White. In 1945 an enormous army training camp was created in the area some miles away, and at one point sprawled across 50k acres (Not close to our property). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_White
I mention this because I wonder if the metal I've found has something to do with Camp White?
If you have any idea what I've been finding, I would really love to know what you think!! I've attached a picture for you to look at which shows a typical collection I find during an outing.
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