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?
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.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.
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.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