Rainman
Junior Member
Does anyone have any experience relating to how a detector would behave when over an old trash midden? We live in a 225 year old homestead property and I have found the original well/s and a few privies. Most certainly the house had at least one trash midden somewhere to the rear of the kitchen or cookery. I have located a suspect area in which I get strange intermittent almost ghost readings at varying depths... the whole area is hit and miss, the readings come and go and are very hard to nail down.
I started a hole for a reading of copper-misc at 2"-4" dug 6 just to be safe... nothing... detector over the hole still beeping like a fire alarm reading 4"-6" dug to 8" still nothing, detector still reading very strong over hole... I don't believe it is the hole itself, I'm used to that kind of false reading. I left it until morning when it light out before I dig to china...
"IF" there were a midden containing various and numerous metal objects I.E. tin cans, nails, pie plates etc. at a depth of say 18" to 25" spread over a 15 foot by 20 foot area would the detector pick up on the fact that this metal of various type and sizes was down there, or is it too deep.
Note: the soil in this area is rather damp most often due to it being a lower area which floods in heavy rains, so the detector should have a reasonably moist soil which might help with depth or confuse it.
My gut is telling my that the detector would sense "something" but not be able to determine what it was or how deep almost kind of teasing it with erratic readings... but perhaps someone out there has had an experience which might help...
Thanks , Don
I started a hole for a reading of copper-misc at 2"-4" dug 6 just to be safe... nothing... detector over the hole still beeping like a fire alarm reading 4"-6" dug to 8" still nothing, detector still reading very strong over hole... I don't believe it is the hole itself, I'm used to that kind of false reading. I left it until morning when it light out before I dig to china...
"IF" there were a midden containing various and numerous metal objects I.E. tin cans, nails, pie plates etc. at a depth of say 18" to 25" spread over a 15 foot by 20 foot area would the detector pick up on the fact that this metal of various type and sizes was down there, or is it too deep.
Note: the soil in this area is rather damp most often due to it being a lower area which floods in heavy rains, so the detector should have a reasonably moist soil which might help with depth or confuse it.
My gut is telling my that the detector would sense "something" but not be able to determine what it was or how deep almost kind of teasing it with erratic readings... but perhaps someone out there has had an experience which might help...
Thanks , Don
