F350Platinum

Good call on the depression glass! The wide mouth bottle is probably a newer-ish jam or jelly jar, it's wide to accommodate a spoon or knife. The cork type bottle usually is medicine of some sort.

There are quite a few hardcore beach hunters here. I'm not looking for Equinox settings,  I'll probably use one of the beach modes on my 600. Most likely I will use Beach 2 because of the 50 tones, as I'm used to 50 tones hunting in Farm 2. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I have a few places I'll be hunting on Tybee island east of Savannah GA, maybe the local Sheriff's office can give me others. 😀

What I am looking for is approach, what part of the beach or tide gives the most bang for the hour. I use maps and stuff to find farmhouses, but a beach is a beach. There are a few forts there but I'm sure they are off limits.

Any advice would be appreciated! I have a nice beach/river scoop rig, even a floating sifter for deeper water. I can't hunt the river here until I get a permit for anything beyond low tide, I've been saving that for when the farmers have planted.

12 minutes ago, Joe D. said:

   I'm out of likes, but I've got to tell you! My daughter is finishing up a four degree for photography! And her longtime boyfriend is a musician!! Is there any hope for them making a decent living??😂🤣

   Ah, so you are not a new beach hunter!! I've been to Savannah a few times, and always wished I had a detector! But I always had my eyes glued to the ground when walking all over the area!👍👍

Tough to keep up with you but you're not alone, 🤣 I edit like you.

I'm a TOTAL noob at beach hunting, only time I've ever stuck a detector in the water was recently at a steamboat landing right next to my house. I found a rotten old IHP, corroded to the point it looked like gold. Went back and found two more. 😀 I've just looked for shells...

There appears to be quite a bit of protocol involved in beach hunting - tides, waterlines, "coin lines", etc. Too little time to get and read a book so videos and odd bits of advice are about all I can get right now. Just like there are no magic settings that make the Equinox not find pull tabs and bottle caps, I don't expect any miracles. I'll take any advice except "don't do it" 😁

Just now, Joe D. said:

   I'm out of likes, but I've got to tell you! My daughter is finishing up a four degree for photography! And her longtime boyfriend is a musician!! Is there any hope for them making a decent living??😂🤣

Nope. Tell 'em the same thing my mother told me:

"Make art your 'avocation' rather than your vocation. Then you can afford to do it"

I took her advice, joined the Army, got free college and spent my career chasing the Pinnacle of Underachievement. 😉

21 minutes ago, Joe D. said:

   F350,

   Did you have to work out a deal with the property owner, or did he say keep whatever you find, Other than gold!!??😁👍👍

I've been lucky so far, every landowner has in one way or another (I try to get their responses in text or email) expressed that I can keep everything I find. I have sent photos of my displays to a couple of them.

I'd like to think that if I ever find something of immense value I'd offer them either the item or a portion of what remuneration I received. If I find one thing that merely pays for the stuff I bought for this hobby, I'd be happy!

I don't have any expectation that would happen however, I learned that from being a musician and a photographer. 😀 

Going to a beach outside of Savannah. It has lots of history and reasonable metal detecting rules but I think I'll talk to the local sheriff's office about where I can and can't go. 🙂 I've been watching videos made by people who hunt there, I may know of one place they don't usually go. I've been going there every year for the last 15.

8 hours ago, ShintoSunrise said:

Final tally after going back at dawn this morning to clean out the rest of the spill hole:

1 large one cent, date illegible

Hey Shinto,

I got 1811 looking at the photo. Try the Flashlight Trick, shine a low powered flashlight sideways at the coin face and rotate the coin until the date jumps out.

If it's an 1811 it is a rare one. Sometimes just taking a picture of it will make the date stand out!

Good stuff, Tom. Glad to see everyone getting Spanish silver! And you're keeping fashionable by digging a coin with a hole in it! 😁

2 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Nice finds again, where are you off to next now that you picked that area to the bones.

Good luck on your next hunt.

Going south to an RV resort at the beach. Lots of detectorists go there so I don't expect to find much but I want to get my "feet wet" with the Equinox. When I come back I want to try my wet feet at river hunting. 😀

The farmers are going to dig a little more this year, they should turn up new stuff for next fall. They own a lot of other properties in my region, I hope they will let me hunt some of those as well.

Great stuff! You're in the Trime club now. 🙂

Finished up the farmhouse I started yesterday, I know I'm finished when there are nearly no signals in two+ passes. I will hack around a bit just to be certain.

Today was padlock day, got two and a possible third. The brass lock marked Red Cross was found when I went to an area that was not fully covered on a hunch. It has a unique back, they call it a Maltese Cross but since this house was standing in the 1860s I think it might be something else. 🤔 Fairly common lock but none for sale recently. The other is a Slaymaker "Old Guard" with the shackle long since rusted away. Can't find any info on it.

Giant piece of plumbing marked Wilson MFG Co. Looks like maybe a closet rod holder or maybe a sink trap?

The rectangular object next to it appears to be part of a third lock, it is only half of it. Shield looking thing looks like it was attached to a rod, no clue. Interesting find is the large rimfire cartridge, looks to be over 40 caliber and has two opposing rim strikes. It is marked US.

And last, 1935 wheat penny. Not an epic day but at least I found some stuff worth showing. It will be my last for a bit, farmers are putting down lime and fertilizer, and I am going to spend a few days getting my RV ready for a trip. Taking the Equinox (and my wife) to the shore! 😀

9 hours ago, CVISChris said:

Holed coins are the  "in"  thing right now.   The patina on it is great.   

Ha, yeah, if you like Bronze Disease 😀 Not sure what to do to stop it. Wish it went the way of the Indian heads I've found, or a nice brown like the 1809 half penny I dug. 🙂

On the 600 I've turned recovery speed down to 2 for sites that don't have a lot of trash. Seems to give the machine more time to "read" everything and definitely get greater depth.

7 hours ago, Joe D. said:

 Your's reminds me of a hand drilled, or punched coin! 👍👍

True. Could have been hammered after being shot or just badly drilled and filed. 🙂 Happy to have found it, it's the largest American coin I've found. I did find a half cent a long time ago.

7 minutes ago, Againstmywill said:

Not sure about the silver content

Here's something about content I found, your post had me intrigued, perhaps they used rhodium or something to "jazz it up":

Paramagnetic materials - have small, positive susceptibility to magnetic fields (having a slight attraction to magnets). Although a magnetic field slightly attracts these materials, the article does not retain the magnetic properties when the external magnetic field gets removed. Paramagnetic properties are a result of the presence of some unpaired electrons and from the realignment of the electron paths caused by the external magnetic field. Paramagnetic materials include palladium, platinum, rhodium, rhenium, ruthenium, magnesium, molybdenum, lithium, and tantalum.

I took the liberty of downloading your photo of the cross, and found them for sale on Etsy at one time, advertised as "Ethiopian Christian cross". They are no longer available but here we are. 🙂

First time reverse image search has ever nailed it for me... 🤔

That is a great coin! Usually you will find either holes or tooth marks in them 😀 I've never had one ID at anything over 22 with similar settings, yours might be better silver.

I'd like to see a pic of the token you dug.

I'd say you're doing great with that coil but I understand your questioning whether you'd find small stuff with the 11". 

Gotta say in its defense that I've turned up really tiny stuff like shoe eyelets and other small circular bits. 😀 The farmhouses I've been working are extremely trashy, lots of nails and cans. I can imagine how long it would take to cover 2 acres gridding with the 6". 🙂

Nice Barber, GB. 🙂

I find a lot of odd metal like that, usually it's heavy so I know it's lead, that is what it looks like. 🤔 Found some odd stuff myself today, including a large green rock. I had a large piece of lead come up as a 22!

Definitely an axe head, The rock looks more like Chert. That was also used for making arrowheads. 🙂

Great job. Water is in the 40s here, might brave it soon. Of course I have to get a permit. 🙄

While that area may lack in quantity, it certainly excels in quality. Shame the 1833 half dime was used for some sort of target practice, in that shape it would be quite valuable. Beautiful buttons, fitting in their irony. 🙂 Hats off to you! Great finds.

4 hours ago, geof_junk said:

F350 I live in a rural area. I found that there is some hidden gems to be found by looking at old parish/shire maps. They show old schools, churches, horse race tracks, town common, picnic grounds and small hamlets that have been lost to history. Some of my maps showed up small farms and their homes, and water wells that have been shallowed up by bigger farms and no visual signs of them. Hope this gives you some help in identifying and pinpointing your opportunities.  

I have yet to go to the county courthouse to get more info. Currently I'm using USGS maps that date back to 1917, and historicaerials.com which has aerial photos back to 1967. Luckily a lot of the houses that the '17 maps show (USGS noted locations of dwellings back then) weren't gone 50 years later.

The county will have records of who owned much of this area back to the mid 1600s, and maybe more info about what I can't see from aerials. It will also give me an idea as to what was going on.

A lot of what has helped is local word of mouth from families that have been here a long time. 

It's one or the other. More likely you're right. My assumption was based on the thought that it was discarded.

What you have there is a mattock or "grub axe". The spike or hatchet end probably broke off.