$1.54 in the Playground

So today it rained and rained and rained and then finally stopped late this afternoon. After making a yummy dinner I asked Bob if he wanted to go out detecting at a school. He said SURE, he'd love to get out. We made a quick unanswered call to our detecting buddies Nadine and Steve. (No clue where they were, they never called back) and we headed out.

No one else was in the school yard, so we headed over to the playground equipment which has those lovely little pebbles to detect in. We found a few pennies, a set of diary keys and a small horse charm.

The detector started giving us all this chattering and I thought "WOW, the ground must be electrified" and we moved away to the soccer field and the detector settled down.

We detected for about an hour and found $1.54 in change and another key and some other tidbits.

It was getting dark (as it was 9pm) and Bob was hungry, so we decided to retire for the evening. :o)

JACKPOT, but got arrested 06-10-09

After eating a yummy dinner which Bob prepared (Pesto Chicken) and watching part of the news, I was really eager to get out and metal detect. We hadn't been out in a long time and I had been reading a metal detecting forum and had read everyone's awesome finds.

We jumped in the car and headed out to a public school, I didn't care that we were just going to detect around some playground equipment, I just wanted to get out there. Upon parking, we realized that we would be watched, some local people were having a baseball practice and some kids were on the playground equipment. We started detecting away from the kiddies and then they took off so we continued. WE FOUND NOTHING, not even a penny. We suspect someone else had been around as this spot had paid off really well for us in the past.

We hit a small sand box area when we were heading to the car and found only foil balls. Bob wanted to go to another school as at 8pm he really wanted to watch WIPEOUT on TV. lol The next school we drove too again had a baseball practice. "Let's go home" I said.

I then remembered that Bob had spoke to a neighbouring business owner who told us we were allowed to detect on their property but warned us that we'd probably find a lot of nails as the business before had used a lot of them.

First we started on the edge of our property. I got 3 good hits, but for some reason we couldn't locate them, the signal said 2" down yet we would dig 5" down and it would say 0" and our pinpointer wasn't picking it up. We decided to quickly head to the neighbouring business. We had a 1/2 hour before Bob's show was to start.

We first started near an old tree and located some siding. We then started near the fence and scored a dinky car and a piece of lego in the same hole. Then a Loonie, a Nickle, a couple of things we weren't sure of, and then a mini metal SLOT MACHINE, lol (No money inside) and then a Police Car dinky car (hahahaa, now you know why we titled the blog entry this way) lol Before we knew it, it was time to go in, we'll have to finish the property another night.

It was great to get out there again!

Everything we found this evening

Not sure what this is, it looks like it may open, but I can't get it to open.

Back of the above unknown item.

Close up of the Nozzle Item

Metal Jackpot machine

We Found Part Of "Bobbit" LOL!

It was a crazy morning, first we got up and ran over to mom's house to pick up the lawnmower, you see we need two mowers to cut our lawn and even with two it still takes 1 hour and 15 minutes to do so. After that, we came inside for a break and a snack and received a call from cousin Steve -- SURE we'll go detecting with you. First we all had to do some yard work, so it wasn't until closer to 3:30pm before we had a chance to get out there.

So the contest was on, who would find the first penny.

Well, after a while, Bob and I had collected four pennies and we were pretty proud of ourselves. Bob met up with Steve as he and Nadine were around the other side of the house and quickly found out we were losing as they had located a dime. LOL

MUST FIND MORE PENNIES! We kept going and found nail after nail after nail. You see, I lowered the settings on the detector to grab any signal I could get, I didn't want to pass up anything good. lol We're still learning the detector.

We had a couple of breaks in between.

I kept on going, I wasn't going to let them win. I had an okay signal and Bob was helping go through the plug and kept finding nails and was going to give up to take a break, I went over the plug one more time and there was still a solid signal, I ripped apart the plug and found my own dime. WOOHOO! We were ahead. I was having way too much fun.

Bob Sleeping

Bob munching and crunching.

How many guys does it take to dig a hole?!

Don't ask. LMAO! Nadine didn't know I was doing this. heehee! She was busy checking out the hole as she found something.


So by the end of the day, we had scored 23 cents and they had found 10 cents.

We had also located a spoon (which looks similar to this one we found on own own property) on the back it says :Victoria Silver O.S. Co.: but is in bad shape, there is a big crack across the spoon part, we found another jingle bell, as I said 23 cents in change, 3 more dog tags (1972, 1973, 1943), a chain, some sort of knobby thing, a button, a weird thing we aren't sure what it is that has dots all over it, a rusted pocket knife.... and......

Not sure what the thing below is....

Close up of the dog tags


And we found this, LOL (aka part of Bobbit), not 100% what it is from.


Well, as you can imagine, laughter errupted when Bob was digging and pulls this out and yells "I found dick" and then shortly after Steve yells "I found rusty balls" and then Nadine yells out "wanna screw? I found a screw". (GIGGLE)

UPDATED: 05-05-09 Mom found this photo on the internet, looks like we actually found part of this. :o)

Any clues what these mystery items might be? Sign below and let us know what you think. :o) Thanks!!!

Afterwards we had an awesome pizza dinner thanks to Nadine & Steve.

Until next time.... ;o)

Cool Morning but the day brought some neat finds!

The morning started out overcast and cool and looked as if the skies were threatening to rain. We had slept in, it was almost 9am and I got up and emailed Steve & Nadine to see if they were up and ready to go detecting. The plan was to detect this morning as Steve & Nadine had a race to watch on TV. I never received a reply, but Bob received a phone call. We called my mom and once we had everyone's Timmies orders we headed out to pick up coffees and donuts and meet up at Steve & Nadine's house.

Steve had gained permission to detect on another piece of property close to where he and Nadine live. There use to be an older house on the property we were told and then this one was built. The age of this house was approx. 100 years old. Unfortunately a few months back this house had a fire so no one is living there now (bad for them, but good for us).

We arrived at Steve's a little after 10am, my mom was there, but Nadine was no where in sight. She apparently had left early that morning to go buy some items and deliver them to her brother who was meeting her half way from his house. She would be by later.

As I said, it was a cool morning, so we piled into Mom's van and had a nice chat while we drank our morning coffees and ate donuts "Breakfast of Champions".

Bob needed to use the facilities at Steve's and Steve, Mom and I walked over to the house and walked around to see what we had and where good detecting locations were.

I was really hoping to find an 1800 coin since we had found quite a few of them at Steve & Nadine's house last year which is basically across the street from this place.

Bob showed up shortly after and Mom suggested we try an old sidewalk near the house. She went to help Steve dig while Bob and I started our search. We found a penny (not old) and a nickle and then basically nothing but garbage. We kept checking in with Mom and Steve, same thing, nothing but garbage. We rounded the front of the house

Mom Detecting & Digging with Steve & Nadine's Equipment

Bob and Myself hunting near the old sidewalk

We found nothing but garage. We continued around the side, still nothing. Down and up a hill, near a fire pit, garbage garbage garbage. Nadine showed up and started to hunt with us.

Nadine & Steve at side of house near old sidewalk.

Bob and I near hill

Myself, Bob & Steve near shed

Steve decided to head for home, he needed to get a lawnmower going and get ready to see his race. Nadine and Mom stayed on to detect together and Bob and I rounded the house yet again, this time we decided to detect near an old dog house. Here's what we found!

Three bells & one weird piece of metal



Two dog tags, one dated 1941 Louth 63 & another Town of Lincoln 1975 819



A funky button, on the back is says Browning King Co. We think the design on the front is three letters DSC or maybe DSG ?
(Just looked up the company info: BROWNING KING & CO 1860-1934)



Total of $2.43 (including the nickle & penny we found earlier)




When Mom and Steve were detecting together, they found this under a tree (along with metal they dug up)

All in all it was a great day! We're all pooped from detecing from aprox. 10 am until 3:00pm.

Just settling in now to order pizza and watch some ghost hunting shows! Until next time! Ta ta! Thanks for reading!!! :o)

Hot Windy Day made the Bell Ring Ding Ding

Waking up this morning to a kiss from Bob who wanted to go out and work on taking nails out of wood to burn in our fire place, I decided to snuggle back into bed for a nap. The wind was blowing hard outside and the temp. in the house was up; no not from the furnace, :o)

I slept for another hour and got up and made some yummy muffins for Bob and I to share with some cups of coffee. We were debating what to do and then I got on the phone with my mom and she wanted to come over and help metal detect. My cousin came over for a visit/give advice on some house things and finally after a while Mom and I started to detect -- we went back to the house ruins on the property.

Nail after nail after nail came up. The ground gave me "crappy" noises as I like to call it. Sweep one way and get a good signal, sweep again, nothing and then again nothing. Blah

We moved to the backyard under a tree and I got an overload sound. Mom started to dig and this is what we found:

Not sure what sort of bell it is, it was caked full of dirt, so I have it soaking now.

The items our yard has so far produced (that we feel are worth speaking about is) The Dress Clip, x2 1951 Pennies, an Army Service Button from the 1930's and a Spoon and now this bell. The rest of the items we have found basically melted metal, nails, screws, and unknown crap metal. Still hoping to find a 1800's coin as the property was first used in the 1800's -- we're currently doing research.

FINGERS CROSSED we are going out with Steve & Nadine (and Mom if she comes) to another location that Steve & Nadine obtained permission to detect on.

Woo, hear thunder, here comes the second wave of the storm, better turn the computer off. ;o)

The Secret Locket

We had my (Mary) Mom over for dinner last night and ended up stuffing ourselves. lol After Mom left we weren't sure what to do with ourselves. Actually, we wanted to have a nap, but I suggested why not use that last bit of daylight and detect our yard. We started in the back yard and found nails and moved to the front yard. We actually stopped to talk to a neighbour who wanted to know what we were looking for. :o) It was great to finally meet another neighbour face to face. After talking to him for a while we continued detecting as it was getting dark. We located a kick-stand to a bike under the big tree in the front yard (away from the ruins) and a round thing in the front garden. It was dark so it was time to retire.



After a stressful day at work and then coming home and becoming more stressed out (long story) we decided to give my (Mary) cousin a call and see if he wanted to share a pizza and go detecting. (Time to release the stress) My cousin Steve and his wife Nadine live in a nice old house and we have done VERY well there last year locating old coins dating back to the 1800's. Unfortunately, Nadine was working late this evening so we popped over with dinner and ate with Steve. We started at the back of the house and found 1 penny (1973) and the as it was getting darker I really wanted to detect the front yard as that had paid off last year. We were finding more "junk" mail. Steve found this fork shaped thing (See above picture). I let Bob detect this time as he is normally the "Digger". He was playing with the RELIC setting and we were only digging the high-pitched noises. He got a "brass" signal and was really expecting to find a bullet-casing. WE LUCKED OUT and found the following.

We found this awesome locket, unfortunately there wasn't a picture inside. :o( It was still an exciting find. Until the next time! :o)

Another Penny & A Silver Spoon 1800's?

Hey all!

Let's start with GOOD FRIDAY -- we called my mom up to see if she wanted to come over and help us detect our yard again and see what kind of goodies we could find. She was nice enough to bring over some Timmies and Muffins. We sat inside and had a great conversation and then headed outside. Bob had to go meet with some people about being in an upcoming movie/tv show? and Mom and I headed outside to detect. We played around by the ruins and didn't find anything except nails and then headed out to the backyard where we scored a nice 1951 penny. We played around some more and found more "garbage metal". It got really cold outside with the wind so after about an hour Mom decided she should head for home and I went inside to do some laundry. Bob came home shortly after and I headed back outside to try again and found more scrap metal. I then came across a "good signal" close to the house and found a pipe. Bob brought out the camera and took some photos.

Last night we decided to watch some video's on how to actually use the MXT properly. Whoops, I guess I didn't have it set correctly, so this morning we decided after running around in town and before we had to go back into town for dinner to meet up with Bob's family that we would detect for about an hour near the "Ruins". This time Bob used the detector and he scored this nice find -- a spoon that displays on the back Nevada McG. C. Co. -- which I tried looking up on the internet and only located a Fork that someone else had for sale who claims it is from the 1800's -- if that is actually true, then that would make sense since the rocks we found in the yard which we were told was from a house built in the 1800's before it burnt down in the 1900's.

The spoon was found approx. 4" - 5" under the dirt. It is the size of a Serving Spoon. It is discoloured and Bob tried cleaning it with toothpaste and an old toothbrush and did find some silver colour in one spot that cleaned up. It did ring up in the 80's on the detector which is a silver reading. We'll need to research it some more.

Hoping we can get out there tomorrow.

NOTE: received a message from Climac on the Canadian Metal Detecting message board stating that MCG might stand for"'McGlashan, Clarke & Co.', a manufacturer of silver plate in Niagara Falls, Ontario and Muncie, Indiana from 1837 to 1910"

WOO! Scored a Find @ Home - Finally!

So, we moved into our house back in September 2008. We were told the property use to have a different house on it which was built in the early 1800's and burnt down in the 1900's and then the current house was built.

We had located some stones on the property near a well and today Bob decided he would edge around them to see if we could find where the house might have been.



And then we found what we think might have been a sidewalk?


I decided to detect around the front of the stones and came up with some charred wood, the inside section of a door lock, a doorknob and two pieces of a pretty plate along with some melted glass and nails and more burnt wood.

Close-up of the plate pieces.

I then came across some burnt spring

The ultimate find appeared -- not 100% sure what it is, but it is very pretty and detailed. Any ideas?

I then continued detecting near our house and found x2 pennies.