Go Small Or Go Home - 9" Gets The Silver

[F350Platinum]

Cold and cloudy day today, but I wanted to continue looking around where I was last post. Today I brought both my Deus 2's with me, one with the 13x11" and one with the 9" coil. I was using a slightly modified Relic program on both.

In one spot I used the 9" for a while, I've been over it with the 13" but it's very trashy, I wanted to see if I could find anything else with the smaller coil. I managed to get a small button and a piece of decorative horse tack amongst the iron, very impressive.

I got the 13" rig and walked other places with less trash for a while, and headed over to a spot I've been over before. It had lots of iron as well, so I retrieved the 9" again. While I was searching this spot I noticed a lot of oyster shells, and when I dug more came up. Seems to me there was a lot of activity here many years ago. Oyster shells are a really good indicator of gatherings in a farm here.

It was a pretty good day, got some really old tombacs, one broken brass button, and what I think is the blade of an old oyster knife that came up from a hole that was nearly all shells.

Looking around this area, carefully analyzing every signal finally produced an 81 ID in the midst of other iron, and I got my find of the day:

Half of a 1728 King Philip V silver 1 Reale with excellent detail. It was almost on the surface.

This is what the whole coin would look like:

 

 

The "S" is Seville mint I believe. Always a thrill to get the old stuff, and the coin pretty much dates everything else.

Here's the trash, some bits of copper pot, some nails and the ever present lead. Also found a 6,000 year old pull tab.

[schoolofhardNox]

Awesome. Great shape too. Around here, oyster shells can be Native American middens. It may take a bunch of hunts considering the large area you have to cover, but the rewards are better than most places have. Anytime you get into a 1600's area, the sky is the limit.

[F350Platinum]

 

31 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Awesome. Great shape too. Around here, oyster shells can be Native American middens. It may take a bunch of hunts considering the large area you have to cover, but the rewards are better than most places have. Anytime you get into a 1600's area, the sky is the limit.

Thanks!

Down by the river they are more likely Native, but the river is pretty far from this farm, not in miles but mostly deep ravines. Forgot to include the trash, i dug some copper from a copper pot, and could tell there was a lot of kettle iron there as well, it has a certain sound. The V2 update made the Relic program a real killer, but some iron manages to get by. I always come home with large square iron nuts. I'm pretty sure the blade looking thing is part of an oyster knife, very similar to those in use here today.

[JCR]

Excellent 

[ColonelDan]

Super…..yet again.😀
I’m running out of superlatives my friend!!!!😉

[Doc Bach]

You Da MAN!😎

[Valens Legacy]

I'm at a loss for words, so I will reuse some that I have stated before.

Excellent finds again for your books.

Just wish I could get back out there, the weather has kept me home since I have gotten over a nasty cold.

Good luck on your next hunt and stay safe out there.

[Sinclair]

Awesome!

I always wanted to give the 9" a run on the hightly trash pulluted beach areas after the big storm last year, but I always ended up using the 11" in fear of missing the deep stuff. Now everything is sanded back in and I kind of regret I didn't try 🙄

[Daniel Tn]

Excellent man!!  

[RickUK]

Some really tremendous finds,i am finding hat in the last 2-3 years almost all my everyday and non specific use coils are going much smaller mainly due to very trashy roman and saxon sites that i detect on.....i have alot of large and very large coils these days just sitting around gathering dust.....once again very well done on the find of the day.