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In atlanta north of I-20 there are not many old parks. Most were built from the late 1970's onward as Atlanta grew towards the mountains. I just have to deal with what I have to work with in terms in hunt sites. We do have quite a few civil war relic sites that have produce well in the 1970's...

I can hunt these areas now. In 1938 (maybe earlier) they were fields in a flood plain. the river there historically floods those fields about once every 10 years. Now those areas are woods. Do you think they will be a good place to metal detect? one of them remained a cultivated field up to...

My brother picked me up and we went for a trip to an old forest where supposedly Germans had a camp during WW2. There was a lot of trash because locals threw all kinds of stuff there, but we managed to find a few coins and buttons. I didn't want to dig on all metal - I don't want to blow up...

My wife wanted to take the Rubicon off road, and get her dirty. So we headed out across some farmland and onto a forest logging road that I had never been on before. After 10 minutes we came across an old ruined barn and home - probably abandoned in the 1970's by the look of it - and certainly a...

I like to use Google Earth to scan farm fields for signs of old (ancient in my case) settlements. When you live on the land, you change its soil composition and structure. Even after a thousand years and annual plowing, you can't hide the fact that soil has been disturbed by something different...