angellionel
Elite Member
It's been a while since making a trip to the NY site I've hit this past summer. With the weather still cooperating, I decided to make the long drive to do some dirt digging in the morning and then shallow water detecting the beach at low tide.
The site I chose this time around was driving me nuts with all the trash it has! Every sweep of the coil was producing signals. I slowed down a bit and began to dig as many targets as my patience would allow. I haven't dug up so many pulltabs in years! I was particularly paying attention to the deeper sounding signals, and this allowed me to dig up about a dozen old wheaties, ranging in dates from 1924 to 1944, an IH in which I can only make out the first two digits, 18??, and a silver quarter. I also picked up a WLH, but that one was no more than five inches deep. There were some other interesting items as well.
After about 90 minutes I decided to call it quits while I still had some sanity left, and walked back to the car to change gears and head to the water. 8)
It was a minus tide, so a good amount of detecting area was exposed. Since I was using the PI, I headed to the water to detect at waist deep level. There weren't many targets, but I did pick up an 8kt gold filled ring, a buffalo and Jefferson nickel, a bracelet, though it isn't gold, and while walking by a rocky portion of the shore, a thin gold chain I had eyeballed. Before calling it quits after few hours, I briefly hit the wet sand area and picked up many zincolns. That convinced me - it was time for the long drive back home.
Angel
Land finds courtesy of the Sovereign GT.
Not a bad looking WLH ? 1943.
Silver is always good!
I haven't cleaned it, so I can't tell what year it is. I can only make out 18??.
A button.
Bullet 1.
Bullet 2.
The Jeffersons.
Water finds courtesy of the Surf PI Pro.
This little guy kept following me while I was working the wet sand.
The ring is 8kt gold filled.
I eyeballed this one.
A dateless buffalo.
Here it is after applying the Nic-A-Date for nickels. It's dated 1916.
They sure hold up better in the water.
The bracelet.
The site I chose this time around was driving me nuts with all the trash it has! Every sweep of the coil was producing signals. I slowed down a bit and began to dig as many targets as my patience would allow. I haven't dug up so many pulltabs in years! I was particularly paying attention to the deeper sounding signals, and this allowed me to dig up about a dozen old wheaties, ranging in dates from 1924 to 1944, an IH in which I can only make out the first two digits, 18??, and a silver quarter. I also picked up a WLH, but that one was no more than five inches deep. There were some other interesting items as well.
After about 90 minutes I decided to call it quits while I still had some sanity left, and walked back to the car to change gears and head to the water. 8)
It was a minus tide, so a good amount of detecting area was exposed. Since I was using the PI, I headed to the water to detect at waist deep level. There weren't many targets, but I did pick up an 8kt gold filled ring, a buffalo and Jefferson nickel, a bracelet, though it isn't gold, and while walking by a rocky portion of the shore, a thin gold chain I had eyeballed. Before calling it quits after few hours, I briefly hit the wet sand area and picked up many zincolns. That convinced me - it was time for the long drive back home.
Angel
Land finds courtesy of the Sovereign GT.
Not a bad looking WLH ? 1943.
Silver is always good!
I haven't cleaned it, so I can't tell what year it is. I can only make out 18??.
A button.
Bullet 1.
Bullet 2.
The Jeffersons.
Water finds courtesy of the Surf PI Pro.
This little guy kept following me while I was working the wet sand.
The ring is 8kt gold filled.
I eyeballed this one.
A dateless buffalo.
Here it is after applying the Nic-A-Date for nickels. It's dated 1916.
They sure hold up better in the water.
The bracelet.
