1904 schoolhouse finds...11-03

[Wyatt Earp]

OK......So I am not very good at quitting, but I am cutting down. I wonder if you can get a patch for the withdrawal....maybe I could just tape a silver coin to myself and see if that helps. It may make things worse.

I went to the post office today to mail a parcel. When I got there I quickly figured out that they were at lunch and wouldn't return for 45 minutes.....OK....the schoolhouse is only a block away, and I can easily kill 45 minutes there. I did....and ended up finding the 43-s mercury dime at about 5 inches nearer to the building in an area I hadn't hammered so hard. I decided to try increasing the sensitivity and lowering the discrimination a tad.....and it paid off.

Then I saw the man next door outside painting......great, I've been waiting for an opportunity to ask him if I could detect his front yard. It turns out that "his front yard" also belonged to the school....and not his house as I'd assumed. To make a long story short, after supper I went back downtown and gave it all I had for about 90 minutes....just until almost dark. I found my first Indian head from this schoolhouse in that vacant lot....it's bent, but still an Indian head, and hopefully a sign of what may lie ahead. I had figured that this place should have some indians, and was surprised and disappointed to have not found any here previously.

Then I found the 1936 Washington Quarter at just over 5 inches. It's funny how one's perception of "big" silver changes. I thought I was digging yet another dime....and when the quarter popped out, it looked really big to me, and so so white.

As the sun was setting, 3 feet from where I dug the quarter, I found the silver stripes. They were a full 6 inches deep, and showed up as "dime". They were also difficult to find in the "tailings"....and I at one point, gave up, and put all of the dirt back in the hole....and swept the coil over it again...my "dime" was still there....only 3 inches this time. I finally was able to find it....it's sharp.....ouch. Fortunately no blood, but I felt it.

I also dug 3 clad quarters, 5 clad dimes, and 13 pennies besides the indian head. 3 of those were wheats. Found a fishing sinker and a square chunk of lead, and a short smashed piece of copper pipe....yet another "half dollar"that wasn't to be.

Wyatt

[rustycoinUT]

Thats a good haul. Congrats!



HH
rustycoinUT

[Steelers1985]

Nice haul. You have some good areas to search. HH.

[Wyatt Earp]

To be honest....until I started into this again in our little town....I was of the opinion that "all of the silver is gone"....I'm glad I was so wrong about that. This is a very old town....settled in the late 1700s....and there's pieces of the famous Greensboro crockery everywhere you dig. Check this piece out. I wish I could find one like this one in one piece!

I also found out today that there was a high occurence of "consumption"...cancer...in children from the salt glazing process.

Wyatt

[Wyatt Earp]

I'm getting a new detector....well, new to me anyway.....because I have yet to send this thing back, and it's getting worse about pinpointing and sometimes just goes silent when I try and pull it into all metal mode. I'll find more with the new machine.

I did something stupid....I found this "smashed doorknob" looking piece of early crockery. It showed up as a solid "quarter" hit on my machine. I know it's early, because it's redware. Thinking I'd easily find it again later....and because I didn't have my pouch with me....I stuck it back in the hole. I cannot, for the life of me find it again. It's really bugging me now, because redware shouldn't be detectable.....should it? I'm wondering if there's something inside it. It looks like somebody was screwing around with the clay and made this "blob".....even has finger smears on it....and it's finished in a gray glaze. I really just thought it was a doorknob when I first found it.

I have got to recover that thing. I know about where it's at.

Wyatt

[spanishsilver]

Nice job Wyatt