Metal Detecting: Awareness Is Good
January 1st 2007 16:21
Many metal detecting sites are not what they seem to be. The metal detectorist must be constantly aware that what they see is not always what they get. Thats a nice thing.
A man in New England bought 2 metal detectors, one for his son and one for himself. The pair were total novices, but enthusiastic. They decided to try the machines out in a baseball field/city park near where they lived. The youngster, having no preconceived notions, was detecting out near a side road, a place that most other metal detectorists would scoff at. His first coin was of a foreign type and dated in the 1600's. Following a trail of detritus the man and his son eventually found a revolutionary war campsite that had never been hunted before. Some of it was below the area that was now the park.
Many times the earliest homesteads of a city became public property such as parks or ballfields, and also a lot of the older houses in an area were actually built on sites that were even older abodes or farm sites. In Europe this is all multiplied many times, as there may be as many as 10 or more ancient sites built one right on top of the other. Farm fields are many times bonanazs of metallic history in the old world, especially around citys and towns.
By being aware of this circumstance the savvy metal detectorist will be able to use his metal detector as a research device as well as a treasure locator.
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Metal Detecting: Shipwreck Salvage
Something that a majority of metal detectorists do not know is this: Indigenous peoples were the first to salvage shipwrecks along any coast. Find a habitation or trash site of an indigenous peoples near a coastline, that is coincident to a time period where ships were wrecking off the coast, and you will have some of the finest metal detecting that the world has to offer.
A man in New England bought 2 metal detectors, one for his son and one for himself. The pair were total novices, but enthusiastic. They decided to try the machines out in a baseball field/city park near where they lived. The youngster, having no preconceived notions, was detecting out near a side road, a place that most other metal detectorists would scoff at. His first coin was of a foreign type and dated in the 1600's. Following a trail of detritus the man and his son eventually found a revolutionary war campsite that had never been hunted before. Some of it was below the area that was now the park.
Many times the earliest homesteads of a city became public property such as parks or ballfields, and also a lot of the older houses in an area were actually built on sites that were even older abodes or farm sites. In Europe this is all multiplied many times, as there may be as many as 10 or more ancient sites built one right on top of the other. Farm fields are many times bonanazs of metallic history in the old world, especially around citys and towns.
By being aware of this circumstance the savvy metal detectorist will be able to use his metal detector as a research device as well as a treasure locator.
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Metal Detecting: Shipwreck Salvage
Something that a majority of metal detectorists do not know is this: Indigenous peoples were the first to salvage shipwrecks along any coast. Find a habitation or trash site of an indigenous peoples near a coastline, that is coincident to a time period where ships were wrecking off the coast, and you will have some of the finest metal detecting that the world has to offer.
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