{"id":1286,"date":"2012-11-15T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-11-15T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:32:32","slug":"shallow-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1286","title":{"rendered":"Shallow Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gotta love “S” words in the subject line.\u00a0 Tuesday’s entry, which I didn’t feel up to writing at the time, was gonna be called “Sounds of Silver Sites”.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll work that entry in now.\u00a0 In any case, lots of “S” words, only one we care about.<\/p>\n

Today I went back to Tuesday’s site, which I was to write off pending the completion of one small zone in a very large site, and I continued to expand the grid in that zone.\u00a0 The zone is in the very corner of a large park; the silver I found on Tuesday was 10 feet from one boundary, and less than one foot from the other.\u00a0 As the zone gave up a couple of deep wheaties and clad, I figured it had a chance for more silver.<\/p>\n

What I got today in that zone was a shallow 01-49\/01-50 on the E-Trac that blew my ears off; these are almost always canslaws, and we often don’t dig ’em, but this one seemed a bit smaller, so I figured it had a chance to be a silver bling, like a big pendant or something.\u00a0 Boy was I shocked to see a barely legal Q at just one inch.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 The state clad Qs at this site are 2-3 inches.\u00a0 Glad I dug it.\u00a0 Not really a natural find; could not have been in the ground more than 5 years.\u00a0 Either was in normal clad change, or another detectorist dropped it, seem to be the most logical explanations.\u00a0 We’ll take it.\u00a0 Scanned the hole again, and found a pretty clean 1979 nickel, which also suggests a clad drop.<\/p>\n

The only other thing to do at this site after working the small zone was to work an embankment along the edge of the site adjacent to the zone.\u00a0 Embankments are really hard to work — you don’t know how much of it is the evil fill and grade twins, it is awkward to dig, swing, grid, and hard on your knees, and since the coins are usually at different angles than we are used to in flat terrain, TID can get whacked, meaning you have to dig it all, including clad dimes and pennies that may sound like silver (yuck!).\u00a0 For these reasons, the competition often ignores embankments, especially along the edge, and thus good finds can be made there.<\/p>\n

So, to make a long story slightly less long, I made a couple good finds on the embankment — a tarnished ’41 merc and a barely legal ’64 rosie.\u00a0 The rosie was in some nasty roots, and took quite a bit of work to pop out, but it was fun to see that shiny.\u00a0 Both were only at 3 inches, giving three shallow silvers today: 1 inch, 3 inches, 3 inches.\u00a0 Silvers tend to be shallow on the embankments — its simple physics, they don’t sink at a straight angle to the plane of the embankment.\u00a0 Also found 7 wheaties on this embankment, compared to 5 over the rest of the site, despite having spent 3 times the time in the rest of the site. I love embankments; I often get goodies there, and the competition seems to ignore them.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know about working in what I had planned to write on Tuesday.\u00a0 It just seems like too much.\u00a0 The bottom line is that the lions share of the site did not sound like a silver site.\u00a0 Only one very small zone.\u00a0 Its hard to describe, but its no threshold nulls, no chirps, no clad, no nothing, for hours.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Silver sites have a certain sound, and it is noisy and complicated.\u00a0 Only one small zone did, and the embankment, and that’s where the silver was.<\/p>\n

So, despite pulling 4 silvers over 2 days from this site (which seems good, and it is), and having 98% of it left to do, I will just finish out the embankment and one small zone tomorrow, and farewell farewell it.\u00a0 Seems harsh, but that is the way it sounds.\u00a0 Someone is hunting it hard, or fill and grade have been here with virgin soil.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 And too bad, as the site had promise.\u00a0 Now I’m back in the same boat of looking for a new site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gotta love “S” words in the subject line.\u00a0 Tuesday’s entry, which I didn’t feel up to writing at the time, was gonna be called “Sounds of Silver Sites”.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll work that entry in now.\u00a0 In any case, lots of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}