Terraced crop fields

I talked with the farmer that terraced the field I'm hunting. He built the terraces by digging and piling the dirt on a countour line. It seems the low areas would be sparce since they dig 5 or 6 feet down. The tops of the terraces would be luck of the draw depending on how much the dirt was worked. Probably still tough since who knows what level the dirt came from.

I hunted the non-terraced areas briefly yesterday and was happy with the results. A shield nickel and an 1857 half dime. The half dime was a first.

I've had the best luck closer to the old homesite in corn stubble fields, I found a mercury dime grown into a cornstalk root! It was neat, GL & HH!