I take it your detecting season is rather short, if you still have that much snow on the ground? Good luck on your site though.
i'm right on the coast and my own yard is about 60-70% bare, but this area i'll be detecting is around 10 miles inland and quite a bit higher in elevation and i honestly couldn't believe how much snow is still on the ground there!
we had an extremely tough winter this year, about 4 times as much of the white stuff as we'd normally get. it is melting away, but i know some areas in the thick woods will still have some on the ground into May. heavy rain for tomorrow, so that should help do a job on it, lol.
Very Cool. I will be waiting to see the pics.
Sweet! Can't wait to see what you find!
Sounds like a great spot Pete, good luck.
Good news Pete. Will be looking forward to your posts.....
thank you all very much! i plan on getting there this weekend, there should be enough bare ground to get me started.
the permission i mentioned is basically for 2 properties, the church's and the lady's yard. but both are in the vicinity or even surrounded by government lands, and no permission is required for there.
(hold your hat!) we're talking in the neighborhood of
300+ acres in total and for at least 5 different parcels of land but most of it is heavily wooded.
very heavily wooded!
after doing quite a bit of research and using google earth, i can see where some of the old original roads ran through the area. other maps show the various property lines, but talking with people from around there has been really helpful, that's how i learned the
most information.
although the old church was built in the 1870's, some of the other things i've been told (the stagecoach area, troops marching through and camping there, old roads from point a to point b, etc), that stuff sounds to me like very early 1800's, if not back into the 1700's!
i'm confident that my At pro will do it's job and help reveal the facts, lol.
now i'm trying to decide which area to hit first. i gotta hit what i can before the summer heat becomes an issue.
i'm going to try researching more about the military around there and that old inn and see if i can dig anything else up about either of those. (i guess i should have paid more attention to this stuff in school, haha!)
so that's the scoop! it sounds extremely promising! i'll get some photos for y'all when i head out there this weekend.
P.
, hold off for a while. GROUP HUNT
Good luck and take lots of pics...
