We went to check out an old farmhouse ruin today which we know has had a few people detect around it. Rather than detect near the ruins we headed away from it and did the surrounding area. There was a ton of iron in the ground and the signals were not at all clear but we started getting good items straight away. This dog tag was in a shallow hole about 50 meters from the house in the hard ground. As with some of these tags I find, they were thrown away and not lost. You can see my collection of dog registration tags here.
A little patch of ground near a winter creek below the house gave us 4 nice coins all dated 1863 – 1865.
There were a lot of old shells and random items in the ground which had to be dug as the coins weren’t coming up clear on the X-Terra’s. There were too many items to clean and photo so here are just a few of them.
This ring turned up just down from the farmhouse where a path to the creek most likely was. It’s a copper-alloy ring with gold gilding and carries the stamp ‘WMNC’ which is an unknown English maker and was dated approx. 1850 – 1900.
On the way back to the car we hit a very noisy patch of ground around the stump of an old tree and turned up 2 more coins amongst old pieces of wire. The 1849 Penny is quite rare but it hadn’t aged well in the ground.
This threepence was just a couple of meters away from the penny.
All up it was a very good dig and there is still plenty of ground to go over. It does go to show that even when people have been there before you it doesn’t mean they have found everything.