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<\/a><\/p>\nI was stung 6 times, and yeah, I ran out of there, almost jumping in the pond.\u00a0 They sting for a few hours, then they start to itch. And they still itch (I’m actually writing this Sun AM).<\/p>\n
And the hunt didn’t get much better.\u00a0 No silver, just one more wheat.\u00a0 Farewell farewell day is often like that — you obviously hit the most promising locations first. Many zones left unexplored at the site, but there is so much fill and grade, that it didn’t seem worth it.\u00a0 I did pass thru these here and there tho, just to be sure.<\/p>\n
The site gave up 36 silvers, which is a bit less than I expected.\u00a0 There was an old ballfield that I expected 15 or 20 from alone, based on past experience and the clad and wheaties it was giving up, but it only gave up 1.\u00a0 This was the zone of “Reason X” from previous entries.<\/p>\n
The site had about 30 zones or so, but only one of them gave it up in bulk, giving up 19.\u00a0 No other zone gave up more than three.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 The site has been hit hard (probably without permission, as 2 detectorists without permission showed up while I was there), but why didn’t they hit this one zone?\u00a0 It was a rather obvious potential hot spot.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n
Were it lacked in quantity, it made up for in quality, giving up 2 barber halves, a walker, and a 2 reale.\u00a0 These are all tough coins, unless your honeyhole is Ebay \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It also gave up 11 coppers, which is alot for a site, including an 1808 half cent, and 1800 large cent.\u00a0 The latter two are abused, but still made my top 30 finds list, as did the 2 reale of course.\u00a0 It was a very nice site in the end.<\/p>\n
The one thing I will say, tho, is that I spent way too much time in this large, non-descript field.\u00a0 That field gave up both a barber half and a 2 reale in the same hunt, in a fairly quick span of time.\u00a0 I figured the odds were good that some more old coins would pop out, but hour after hour of gridding this huge field produced nothing but some wheaties and a buff.\u00a0 But I think you have to try.<\/p>\n
In retrospect, I think I was in a bit of denial.\u00a0 The barber half was ferrous affected, and by the location of an old road thru the field that I figured out the location of from old maps, and the 2 reale was deep and on its side.\u00a0 Both are tough technical finds, and the one is a circumstantial find, thus leading me to over estimate the potential of the field.\u00a0 It had been pounded hard in retrospect (the lack of coppers, buttons, and buckles in this zone gave this fact away), but after 2 killer finds, you feel the need to press on despite this evidence.\u00a0 Not a great decision in retrospect, but it was fun nonetheless.<\/p>\n
Well, I have 3 free hours this Sun AM, and I am going to take one more pass thru a zone that I failed to complete.\u00a0 Hopefully one more silver will pop out, but I am not optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friday is farewell, farewell day, and I am pretty much farewelling my latest site.\u00a0 Not a bad site, but I actually found a bit less than I expected there. The hunt did not start off well.\u00a0 I started by finishing … Continue reading