I have been lusting after this yard for years, its in an upscale part of town and very historic district where I have found coins from the early 1800's and actual civil war relic before. Very large lot, part of it you can clearly see a gulch where a stream that feeds a nearby river ran. Very tough to find anywhere to detect around here, almost all private property, and my big scores have been on street tearouts. Well I drive by hear periodically to see if there are any sidewalk tearouts or anything, and the house that sits on this lot unfortunately had a bad fire. Is a large brick house and the brick looks fine, but by the look of the scorch marks coming out of the windows, the inside must have been severely damaged, if not gutted.
There is a large roll off dumpster in part of the yard, the broken windows are boarded up, so it looks like they are going to rebuild it. Hope they do, very nice old house ,,, But you can see where I am going here. I have eyeballed this yard for years, just because I have a detectors eye, never thought I'd get a chance to detect it, but here it is.
Still private property obviously, but whether it gets rebuilt or demolished, the yard is going to take some damage, so I figure a few plugs are the least of their worries. No one is there of course, neighbors are minimal, so I am going to mosey on over there now and then and see what I can find. I arrived just around dusk so didn't have much time, found this well marked clip and an old metal jingle bell. Ground is nice and soft, didn't want to be seen with a shovel there so I just used a 5 in 1 painting tool to dig, which with I can quickly get down to 8" in this soil with minimal damage. I'm going to feel the property out slowly, may get bolder if I start finding stuff. The large front yard, which is what I really lust after, I am going to stay away from for a while because a pretty busy street runs along it, both cars and people walking dogs, ect. If someone with authority tells me to take a hike, have little choice but to hike. If its just a nosy neighbor I'll play dumb and try to sweet talk, of course they'll end up calling the cops, who probably won't have a choice but to tell me to leave and don't come back. If it get demo'ed thats another story, I'll hit it with a vengeance no matter what.
There is a large roll off dumpster in part of the yard, the broken windows are boarded up, so it looks like they are going to rebuild it. Hope they do, very nice old house ,,, But you can see where I am going here. I have eyeballed this yard for years, just because I have a detectors eye, never thought I'd get a chance to detect it, but here it is.
Still private property obviously, but whether it gets rebuilt or demolished, the yard is going to take some damage, so I figure a few plugs are the least of their worries. No one is there of course, neighbors are minimal, so I am going to mosey on over there now and then and see what I can find. I arrived just around dusk so didn't have much time, found this well marked clip and an old metal jingle bell. Ground is nice and soft, didn't want to be seen with a shovel there so I just used a 5 in 1 painting tool to dig, which with I can quickly get down to 8" in this soil with minimal damage. I'm going to feel the property out slowly, may get bolder if I start finding stuff. The large front yard, which is what I really lust after, I am going to stay away from for a while because a pretty busy street runs along it, both cars and people walking dogs, ect. If someone with authority tells me to take a hike, have little choice but to hike. If its just a nosy neighbor I'll play dumb and try to sweet talk, of course they'll end up calling the cops, who probably won't have a choice but to tell me to leave and don't come back. If it get demo'ed thats another story, I'll hit it with a vengeance no matter what.
