NCtoad
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Last week I took a trip to upstate NY to an old farmstead that my sister owns. Her husband believes the main part of the old farmhouse to be early 1800's maybe even late 1700's the carriage house and barn are newer, but still over 100 years old. I went over and over the yard around the house with my F70 and got constant iron signals which for the most part were shallow 3-5" nails. If there were coins below that layer of nails I didn't find any. Is there any detector that will hit on coins say 2" or more below nails? And believe me, I dug a lot of iffy signals and most were bent nails that gave a false high tone and or numbers. I dug 11 wheats in a fairly small part of the yard and a little over 50 older memorials in the same basic area. Just wondering if I was passing over silver and couldn't pick it up because of the layer of nails? Just for kicks and ran my 8" compadre over the same area and only came up with one more wheatie and one or two more copper memorials. I have doubts that anything was really deep because as soon as I got past the 3-4" of topsoil the soil was very stony like river gravel, but some of the pennies I found were in the 5" area right in the gravel/stones.
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