Redwaller
Full Member
I don't really post about my finds but this time there was a bit more of an interesting story to tell so why not share?
So I'm a lot younger than most of this forum's members, as a matter of fact I'm just starting my freshman year of college, and about a month ago I secured permission to search literally any property owned by the college I'm attending. (This actually was very easy, and as it turns out the Dean of Students also metal detects, crazily enough) But anyway, I've spent the past month being thoroughly thwarted by the campus every time I've gone detecting. The oldest structures around campus date back to the 1820's and at this point I've searched around every single one including a few that aren't standing anymore - with no luck. The ground was either replaced, full of the most trash I've ever seen anywhere (Gee do you think that has anything to do with it being a college campus) or just oddly quiet but with old nails still in it. I found a few wheaties and that was about it. Until last night.
Last night I was trying another area where there might have been some activity in the early 1900's, I found a nice sterling religious pendant (I think it's from around 1940) I was feeling pretty happy with just that when a random guy walked up to talk to me, and he had a fair bit to say. He told me about how he'd seen some guys detecting the hillside near one of the structures I'd already searched the immediate surroundings of, and that apparently they were finding old coins, but he didn't know what. How foolish of me to think I was the first one to search campus! I'm still the only one with permission, but it seems I never really needed it - nice to have it anyway. So I went to go search this hillside, figuring that whoever these guys were, they almost certainly left at least a few things in the ground, and was pleasantly surprised to discover they weren't very thorough at all. All the easy signals were gone but they clearly skipped over anything they thought was trash; I dug some really bad signals and came away with: A 1917 wheat penny, a nice silver fronted iron backed 2 piece button (guesses as to how old it is would be appreciated), a dateless buffalo nickel, and an 1895 IHP. I also found another two piece button but I've somehow lost it so it's not in the picture, I swear it happened but I have zero proof. It was pretty late so I left with most of the hill left to search, who knows what I'll find next time!
(sorry about the picture quality my phone camera is abysmal)
So I'm a lot younger than most of this forum's members, as a matter of fact I'm just starting my freshman year of college, and about a month ago I secured permission to search literally any property owned by the college I'm attending. (This actually was very easy, and as it turns out the Dean of Students also metal detects, crazily enough) But anyway, I've spent the past month being thoroughly thwarted by the campus every time I've gone detecting. The oldest structures around campus date back to the 1820's and at this point I've searched around every single one including a few that aren't standing anymore - with no luck. The ground was either replaced, full of the most trash I've ever seen anywhere (Gee do you think that has anything to do with it being a college campus) or just oddly quiet but with old nails still in it. I found a few wheaties and that was about it. Until last night.
Last night I was trying another area where there might have been some activity in the early 1900's, I found a nice sterling religious pendant (I think it's from around 1940) I was feeling pretty happy with just that when a random guy walked up to talk to me, and he had a fair bit to say. He told me about how he'd seen some guys detecting the hillside near one of the structures I'd already searched the immediate surroundings of, and that apparently they were finding old coins, but he didn't know what. How foolish of me to think I was the first one to search campus! I'm still the only one with permission, but it seems I never really needed it - nice to have it anyway. So I went to go search this hillside, figuring that whoever these guys were, they almost certainly left at least a few things in the ground, and was pleasantly surprised to discover they weren't very thorough at all. All the easy signals were gone but they clearly skipped over anything they thought was trash; I dug some really bad signals and came away with: A 1917 wheat penny, a nice silver fronted iron backed 2 piece button (guesses as to how old it is would be appreciated), a dateless buffalo nickel, and an 1895 IHP. I also found another two piece button but I've somehow lost it so it's not in the picture, I swear it happened but I have zero proof. It was pretty late so I left with most of the hill left to search, who knows what I'll find next time!
(sorry about the picture quality my phone camera is abysmal)
