Trip to Boistfort School..

[Tom in SWW]

Hi Folks!

Sorry to hear that a lot of you are essentially snowed and frozen out until Spring.
Last Sunday, I decided to revisit the Boistfort School near Curtis, WA.
How could I not detect, when it was a tropical 40 degrees and not raining?
My last trip netted a good sized handful of coins back in the Spring or summer.
The "new" building dates from 1936... I suspect that a smaller school occupied the same site, as it was a thriving community from about the turn of the century to WWII...
My goal was to check around a very old wooden building, and out behind the school near the ballfields.
To my surprise, something looked strange when I pulled in. It turns out that the building I wanted to detect around wasn't there anymore.
The soil at the site was badly disturbed, contaminated with charcoal and all sorts of other debris.
Turning down the AC gain on the DFX didn't do much for me. This was without a doubt, the worst soil I've ever attempted to work.
I gave up after a while, and worked my way to the back of the school.
It was an entirely different story there! The soil was a rich, dark, homogenous material and I ran the AC gain to absolute max on setting four, and the detector was still solid!
A few Zincolns were picked up on the way to a grove between the ballfields and the adjacent Boistfort Lions rec area. Picnic tables lined the edge of the grove.
There were a lot of downed branches from a recent wind storm that had to be avoided, but the diggin' was worthwhile.
A number of copper pennies came out of the ground in the grove: One was quite badly corroded, but was eventually read as a 1961-D. It turned out to be the find of the day. Looks like we were in "the zone", but alas, still no silver...
I worked my way back to the car via the edge of the ballfields, and turned up a couple of recent drop quarters.
Haul for the day: 14 coins for a total of 62 cents... Two quarters, twelve pennies.

HH! -Tom