maxxkatt
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When you ask for a permission, do you offer to split your finds, show all your finds or what with the property owner?
sharing with property owner question
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Cherry Picker
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I try and read the person I'm asking. Some you can tell are willing to say OK right away with no stipulations. Others have that hesitation where you feel you need to add something to the pot to get an OK.
MasonDixonMding
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I agree with cherry picker. Each permission is different. I don’t even bring it up unless they say something about it. I was just at a permission where I told them they had first choice. The one I was at yesterday the owner didn’t care. I have a friend that wants what ever we find on his farm. And some just like to see what I find.
CallMeGrey
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If they have an interest in the history I ask them if they'd like to see what I find. I'm only really interested in coins and will offer any relics I find. But I won't share my coins. If they want what I find, I'll go look somewhere else. 
Kansashunter
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I sure try not to share, but I have offered the opportunity to the homeowner. Like it has been said, case by case situation.
Rock Jock
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I'm currently trying to get a permission for a large lot in Charleston. I told the owner that I'm an amateur historian and that I'm trying to nail down the position of a colonial historical military thing (all of which is so) and I think I'll be getting the permission. Here's hoping! It will be fun and easy going if it works out. No strings attached so far.
ohh i have a feeling the strings will surely be coming. It's really hard to say how long the strings will be or how tight they get but if someone sees you digging it is about guaranteed the landowner will know about it. Then comes the questions and "strings" that follow. Have some nice "relics" handy to show them. Any coins you best be tucking away rather discretely.
One thing can never be overestimated and that is the greed of people. Although something may have been in the ground a hundred years, for every year it's been there will be a person who wants it all of a sudden. The thing is, you are the one who found it, and unless you want to keep it that way always best to be real quiet-like in these times.
Sometimes when we are out detecting and people are around me and my wife talk in code. I've taught her to never show any emotion or get excited. If something is potentially valuable (gold ring) and we don't know yet I tuck it into another part of my pouch. We NEVER get to looking on-site. Too many people will be more than willing to claim it's their stuff even though it was 6 inches down.. I wasn't born yesterday and had my fair share of bend-overs. I'm at an age now where I'm done with bend-overs from behind. Never given them but always received. Now it's time to just say no to them.. LOL
Rock Jock
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I contacted the parties involved and was given permission to proceed. They are also interested in historical information and are historically informed locals. My investigations thus far have suggested that the property was essentially a landfill of sorts (despite the large live oaks on the lot) during the middle 20th Century and likely received a cover of sandy dirt over the top. If there is anything of colonial relics to be found, then they are likely out of depth range and masked by lots of metallic rubbish. To make things worse, a sector of the property is adjacent to a structure that seems to emit EMI, so my ATMax is constantly whining about it. It is near the area with the thinnest soil cover and lots of "sanitary fill" around in the form of bricks and mortar from some demo job, possibly some old structure on the property (there was a plantation manor in the area historically). I will do a bit more searching but I may be forced to write it off and move on.
hoser
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I'm with Rob on this. You are the one doing the work to find something for YOU. Unless the landowner states they have lost something like a ring or other piece of memorabilia, that's when you get a description of what it is so you can be on the lookout for it. If I got a permission and the owner states they want everything found, I just thank them for their time and walk away.
bottlecap4u
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For me, if they inquire on sharing/showing, I always do it.
The point is in the end, its still there land. So they pretty much have the last say. You really never know what you'll find, which is the really great part. That applies to both parties. The owner might get something he didn't even know he had, the person doing the detecting has the thrill of what he finds, whether he keeps it or not. The really great part id that once the owner sees something, he might want to see more not less, especially If its a nice find.
