searching my own property ANYONE DONE THIS?

[MinelabMan]

Hi Deefburger and welcome to TQ, alot of friendly and helpful people on here.

Congratulations on the watch body. I agree with you on hunting your backyard, I think that's the first place a beginner should hunt and then again once they know their detector well.

You may want to post your introduction in the New to Treasure Quest? area. Looking forward to you finds!

[Deefburger]

Hi, and thank you for the welcome. I'll post in the other section too.

I found a small cannon in my back yard yesterday! It was about 8" down. It was one of those little ones you used to be able to buy from the back of Popular Mechanics. It had its top blown off, so I know some kid had tried to shoot something out of it!

I also found a piece of white glass that was part of the bottom and side of what seems to be a cold-cream jar. What confuses me, is that it is glass! How could I be detecting that? I set it down in a spot I cleared of signals and was able to zero in on it again without trouble. I also re-scaned the hole and it was clear! I found it about 7-9" down. I have a Quantum 950 coil, so detecting a non-metal near the limits of the coil seems pretty weird to me.

When I first started searching back there, I thought I had several "false" readings because I only came up with pieces of this glass and rocks. I already know there is a lot of glass and pottery shards back there because I brought them up with the roto tiller last year.

What is in this glass that makes it read so strongly? Or is there some detection of non-condutors as well as metals?