LOST by one Penny! 03-21-09

After a shopping trip in the morning to Ikea we had made plans to meet Steve & Nadine at Steve's parent's property to do some metal detecting. Steve's family had owned a whole bunch of property including the site we were on for many many generations.






This was the original house on the site which was built in the early 1800's


This is the same house which was demo'd in 2006 as the property was sold and new houses were being built.

We had tried metal detecing there last year when nothing was on the property. SEE HERE


Steve's parents live on another section of the property that wasn't sold so they gave us permission to detect.

We split up and Bob and I headed towards some trees in a section that an old road had been prior to a second house being built on the property. Basically, all we found was junk, junk and more junk. Junk mental, nails and old container lids, etc... They were all found 2 - 3 " down.

We met back up with Steve & Nadine for a break as Bob was getting hungry.

This is what Steve & Nadine had found up to this point. (Not including the sunglasses)

Yes, they had found one penny. We had not found any money.

We split up again and located some bullet casings, but Bob said they weren't old. We then started detecting around a bar and located a very rusted licence plate that we couldn't read the date to. We headed towards the largest tree on the property and again found a bunch of garbage including the remains of an old toy truck.

It had been 4 1/2 hours and we regrouped. They still had no found any more money and we hadn't. Wow, we lost by a penny!

No worries, we had a lot of fun trying to find treasures. Not sure if Bob and I did pass up anything good as we are still trying to figure out our MXT.

We got home and I asked Bob if we could detect our yard as we had been told a house on the property was originally built in the 1800's and burned down. We were shown by the previous owner where the stones that it was built on were in the ground. We started detecting around there and it was so junky sounding, lots of clicks and blips. I finally had a solid hit, we dug and came up with black burnt wood (from the fire?!) along with some nails and a 1959 penny, all in the 4" range.

Bob was getting cold so he unloaded the car and I went into the back yard. Again lots of blips and clicks, but finally found another solid hit. It produced a file of some sort? I detected for a few more minutes and came up with some other odds and ends.

By now I was feeling very chilled. I decided to go in and we had a snack and watched A HAUNTING which Steve & Nadine had kindly recorded for us.

Better luck next time for us!