Posted by JB(MS) on 9/2/2009, 8:23 pm
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This afternoon I dropped a load of stuff off at the local Salvation Army store and on the way home stopped at a likely looking site to detect for a few minutes. First signal was a flattened bottlecap, then a moderately weak high tone the A&S with the 5.5 coil normally gives on dimes and pennies that are around 5 inches down. I cut about a four inch deep plug and checked it, whatever gave the signal was still in hole and gave a louder response. Took the trowel and went a couple of inches deeper, still in the hole but gave a weaker response. I kept digging with the trowel and scraping the sides of the hole until I got almost as deep as the trowel is long, but the signal kept getting weaker until it was completely lost.
I was hot, sweaty and disgusted by that time so I put the dirt back in the hole, put the plug back, stepped on it to level it out and headed home. When I got to my truck I decided I wasn't gonna let whatever it was beat me so I went back, took the dirt back out of the hole, scraped around in the hole a few more times and got the coin. A 1952 wheatie at almost a foot deep. At least it was almost that far from the top of the ground when I recovered it, but I would bet no more than five inches down when I started digging. The hole was as deep as from the tip of the trowel to the hole in the handle, 10 to 10.5 inches according to the tape measure. That it wasn't over half that deep when I started digging doesn't detract from the fact it was 10+ inches deep does it?
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