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Try http://historicaerials.com. You can look at topographic maps, old aerial photos and more for free. That site can show you a lot of unknown building sites. They will appear as square dots on the older maps. Welcome to the forum! HTH, HH

I don't have a dog in this fight, but here: Well it didn't work much on the beach either. 😀

A-men! I can't imagine the video is anything but a hoax. 🤣

All of the landowners who let me hunt their property are grateful I don't get any one else involved in what I find, I never tell where I post my finds. Not many where I live are really interested in this type of hunting. 😀 A few stop and ask if I'm finding anything but my stock answer is not much, and that any detectorist would be reluctant to tell them anyway. Might as well be honest in that regard. Were I to find anything spectacular on any of these properties I'd like to think I would be honest enough to share it with the landowner and go with whatever they decide of its fate. So far I've only found things of casual interest, certainly not George Washington's 9-iron. 😀 After seeing what most of the stuff I dug is worth, it isn't an issue at all. Guess I'll enjoy it while I can.

Excellent finds and photos! I really like seeing the places y'all go. 👍 I've dug silver ribbon like that but much smaller pieces. Not sure what it was used for 🤔 Nice Barber too.

I'm planning on using this one: https://www.amazon.com/TROND-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Headphones-Simultaneously/dp/B01B4W40VC I know for a fact it's Aptx-LL, works great. Battery lasts about 8 hours. You just have to get a double ended plug: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B077GRQ4F4 That should do the trick. 🙂 right now there a 15% off coupon! Looks like they give you the straight double ended plug in the box but it's cheesy.

Thanks, I hope so. Going to be hunting a turn of the century house soon, best chance is an old yard. 👍 I'm out of likes for today. 🙂

Yeah I use Benadryl spray or "after bite". I'm out of likes for the day

I remember learning about them there. My Army unit did training in Old Lyme in the 80s. There is a whole conspiracy theory that revolves around how the ticks were bio-engineered on an island not far away. 😀 I sure hope not. Lyme Disease is sporadic here, I've had lots of tick bites and luckily haven't had it yet. I have heard some people have got it. Chiggers are tiny red spider looking things, it was a take that they burrow in but they don't. The bite will ulcerate and last for a while.

Honestly I thought I was coming away with nothing. 😵 These fields haven't been planted yet, probably due to the cost of supplies, the drought, and diesel 🤬 One thing I have found is that no matter the size of the field, and some are upwards of 90 acres on this farm, there will be a lot of nothing then suddenly a hot spot with a lot of stuff. Guess that's pretty much the same anywhere. When scouting I usually go around the edges and the make an "X" across the field. The ratio of field to woods and ravines is about even. You'll walk toward a tree line, and at the trees there is a precipitous drop, sometimes 80 feet. Wouldn't have been an issue for me about 50 years ago. 🤣 I'll be coming back to this one soon, but it's really dry now. It's tough to dig even a 4" hole. It's supposed to rain this coming weekend! The worst time of year for ticks here is the first couple weeks of April. When it hits 70 the nymphs come out. These are brown deer ticks, famous for transmitting Lyme Disease. The nymphs are so small you don't find them until you start to itch. I had two trotting all over me, they both bit me about 4 times each. By now they've grown and will start dropping from the trees. Luckily as yet I haven't seen the bullseye rash, I've been tested a couple of times. A couple other pests are chiggers and sand fleas, the bites from those fester for a month. High grass and rivers respectively are their domain. I'm not trying to sound like Adventure Boy here, but it's good to present the downside now and again 😁 It's best to go in the woods when the temperature is in the mid 50s to 60s.

Standing Liberty and Barbers, except for the V nickel have eluded me as well so far. Got a Walker and two seateds after a year of hunting. Most odd is I have never dug a silver Roosevelt dime. 🤔 I've dug more Spanish silver than anything in the 18/1900s. Nice coin! 👍

Great post with excellent warnings. I imagine I would have done something similar had I this problem. However, you can still use the WS6 as an RC while waiting. It's not the best but that's one of the great things about this detector. Brave move, glad it worked out for you. 👍

Shame it's only half of a half, it has the pinhole for a thread, looks like it was done with something hot. This gentleman owns over 1,000 acres of prime Colonial field and forest, every time I meet up with him he tells me about something else. 👍 I'm hoping to get my hands on some 1812 stuff, history mentions about 3,000 troops invaded the places I'm hunting. Someone had to lose a button! 😀

No worries, for sure I'd have found pretty much the same stuff with the Equinox, nothing was very deep. Right now we've been in a bit of a drought for about a month. This weekend it's going to rain for a few days so hopefully that will correct it and make it easy to dig in the fields, it should light the finds up again.

Could be, this is closer to a tributary. The landowner told me they used to run shallow draft barges up into the place the road led. I was hoping to get down there, it was about a mile walk through thick forest overgrowth. So far he's only cleared about a to quarter mile of it. Only made it about halfway, I'll try again now that I have a better idea of where the road is. I'm happy to not be covered with ticks, and the woods are full of ravines. 😀

The spike I dug on the road I was following, it was a strong copper signal. No evidence of a house anywhere there. Odd... 🤔 I expected to find some buckshot and bullet stuff there but not that.

I would have been happy with the Tombac, those buttons are as old if not older than the real. 🙂

I found that and now crank it all the way to 50. Sometimes it is a bit sensitive when I first turn it on, but I have found every target I have looked for with it, no matter if off center or deep. I'm impressed. I'm running V0.71.

Got out for about a 6 hour hunt today, I was going to hit 3 fields of an old farm that I really haven't found much in. Figured I'd give the Deus 2 a chance to do me proud. Today I ran it mostly in General with the sensitivity turned up to 97 and 3 bottle cap. Didn't mess with anything else but saved it and put it next to my new Culpeper relic program. The first field I went to is about 4 acres, I didn't find anything here the first time and didn't find anything but trash this time. I spent about 2 hours going all around. 😵 While I was there the landowner stopped by and told me that he was working on an old county road that the British may have used to invade the town in 1812. I decided to check it out later. The next field is about 2 to 3 acres, hunted it for about an hour before I finally dug a beautiful spun Tombac. I didn't find anything else after that but trash, and a small piece of lead crystal. Next I decided to follow the road the landowner talked about, used my compass and OnX Hunt to guide me. I got about halfway down the road and found it getting impenetrable, I circled around the tough stuff and realized I had got off track. At that point I decided to quit and made my way back. I'm not directionally challenged, but the compass and app helped me get out quickly. I went across the road to the third field, a small one less than 3 acres. I dug a few buttons here, saved the best for last. I switched to Deep HC for a bit, and not too much later got a strong 79, since I was digging junk all day I didn't think much of it. Was I surprised: I had dug a 1781 Mexico mint half of a half real. 👍 that made my day. I hunted around a bit more, here are the finds for the day: A heavy piece of copper spike, a very tiny brass knob, the Tombac, a small thimble tip, and the half/half real. Lots of trash today including a live shotgun shell.

Good on ya for doing that, Skate. 👍 That must be very rewarding. Thanks for representing all of us!

I was gonna recommend those $29 Falwedi headphones, they are APTX-LL, and have active noise cancelling. They may not be in your neck of the woods though. They're loud as hell as a bonus, and the battery lasts 40 hours. I realize a $6000 detector deserves pricey accessories, but sometimes the solution can be cheap.

Welcome to the forum Majorp. 🙂 I have a 600 myself, and have, in my first year detecting, found some of the oldest stuff America has to offer from a Colonial standpoint. The 600 is certainly no slouch in this regard! I will never regret my purchase. 👍 Looks like you have done very well with it! We all envy your possibilities, believe me. 😀 Have you investigated the Coiltek 10x5 coil for your Equinox? It is the king of trash, very good in trashy iron and tight spaces, which I have read are common in the UK. You only lose about an inch of swing coverage and gain a lighter detector and razor focus pinpointing or locating a target. It would be a great addition to your machine.

I'm not much for them either, but the place does have some surprises of its own, being there since the early 1700s. A woman with a GPX got an incredible 1 Reale coin. It was not seeded. The odds of finding that with 70 other detectors are slim, and she said it was about 8" deep. 🙂 That's a hard working hand. She was only about 5'3" and in great shape. Tough woman! They probably shouldn't use red paint either... 😀

Where were you hunting, a park? That looks like a good day, a detectorists' salary. 👍

It was fun. 🙂 Put in about 6+ miles of walking, dug some targets just to get a break. The seeded bullets were painted white, the ones with red dirt were real. I might have found an older seeded bullet, the Williams Cleaner. It wasn't so white. They've been doing this for 3 years now.