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Got out my detector a couple of days ago to try some areas in my backyard that I have been dying to detect. We built a house last year on some very old farmland that has had two other houses on it prior to ours, one built in the 70's and one built around 1900 or mabey a little older. We found numerous bottles while building our house so I knew this was prime and most likely virgin ground. Last year I found a good luck token with the name of the owners of the original home.
About two months ago, a man from an aerial photography company came by and showed us some photos taken in 1963 of the original home before in burned, It showed the layout of the land with numerous outbuildings and it was very helpful to me for obvious reasons!
Anyway, I was only hunting for about 15 minutes the other day but came away with 2 wheaties - 1910 and 1916-D. I am very excited! Both were shallow, in fact, the 1916 penny was laying on top! The ground I hunted was moved around by us when we were building, I figured some deeper targets may have come up in the process and with the hard ground, I need all the help I can get! It is supposed to rain today or tommorow and I am hoping the ground will loosen.
I am really hoping to get my first Barber, or, God willing, a Seated coin right from my yard.
I will keep you all posted on my progress. I am thinking of gridding it off this weekend. There is a tremendous amount of iron junk in the ground, being an old farmhouse and having burned down and dozed at least once...you get the picture.
About two months ago, a man from an aerial photography company came by and showed us some photos taken in 1963 of the original home before in burned, It showed the layout of the land with numerous outbuildings and it was very helpful to me for obvious reasons!
Anyway, I was only hunting for about 15 minutes the other day but came away with 2 wheaties - 1910 and 1916-D. I am very excited! Both were shallow, in fact, the 1916 penny was laying on top! The ground I hunted was moved around by us when we were building, I figured some deeper targets may have come up in the process and with the hard ground, I need all the help I can get! It is supposed to rain today or tommorow and I am hoping the ground will loosen.
I am really hoping to get my first Barber, or, God willing, a Seated coin right from my yard.
I will keep you all posted on my progress. I am thinking of gridding it off this weekend. There is a tremendous amount of iron junk in the ground, being an old farmhouse and having burned down and dozed at least once...you get the picture.
