teotwawki12
Elite Member
Never made it over 32 degrees today (with flurries), and my fingers got purrrty cold... but the ground's still diggable...
I made it to a homesite that gave up quite a few Indianheads this spring when it was cornstalks. Now it's harvested beans, and I had another go. I had to use the little tiny six inch coil out of necessity (my right wrist has become very sore from detecting and I needed the detector as light as possible). So I went right in to the iron patch where the house used to be and took it slow. Barely chirped a 23 which solidified once I made tiny little back-and-forth passes on top of it. Dug it up, and found this odd silver coin. I thought it was Canadian and it seemed to be a bit larger than a dime. Turns out to be an 1839 British sixpence (which I'm guessing somebody had as a pendant). My new oldest coin by three years!
Decided to warm up in the car and went to get lunch. Stopped at a field which (last year) gave up three civil war tokens. Was looking forward to it being flat harvested beans this year. Looks like I was too late; already planted with winter wheat and they are popping out of the ground. The owner said go for it and that I wasn't going to hurt anything, but I didn't really like popping up the growing seeds...
So I went back to the first field I was at. Ended up pulling out three 1800's Indians (not in the greatest shape) and a few more bits and bobs.
Successful day!
I made it to a homesite that gave up quite a few Indianheads this spring when it was cornstalks. Now it's harvested beans, and I had another go. I had to use the little tiny six inch coil out of necessity (my right wrist has become very sore from detecting and I needed the detector as light as possible). So I went right in to the iron patch where the house used to be and took it slow. Barely chirped a 23 which solidified once I made tiny little back-and-forth passes on top of it. Dug it up, and found this odd silver coin. I thought it was Canadian and it seemed to be a bit larger than a dime. Turns out to be an 1839 British sixpence (which I'm guessing somebody had as a pendant). My new oldest coin by three years!
Decided to warm up in the car and went to get lunch. Stopped at a field which (last year) gave up three civil war tokens. Was looking forward to it being flat harvested beans this year. Looks like I was too late; already planted with winter wheat and they are popping out of the ground. The owner said go for it and that I wasn't going to hurt anything, but I didn't really like popping up the growing seeds...
So I went back to the first field I was at. Ended up pulling out three 1800's Indians (not in the greatest shape) and a few more bits and bobs.
Successful day!
Anywho, great hunting!! 
