The Phoenix was a mythical bird that caught fire, “crashed and burned” and then, according to legend, arose from its own ashes to live again. While not about a bird that arose from the ashes, this article is about making gold and silver “arise from the ashes” of burned down and long abandoned old house…
It’s pretty much inevitable… very few of us who research the location of new coin, relic, and treasure cache sites will escape having to deal with this problem. Sooner or later… and probably sooner… we are going to grab our metal detectors and head for a well-researched site that has the promise of great finds……
An important subject related to improving one’s success with a metal detector that does not receive much attention on social media is that of the Test Garden. Many detectorists will go “out back” and bury a few coins in their yard to see what their detector reads out and sounds like when they pass over…
I begin this article presuming that you have read Successful Civil War Relic Hunting a Primer for Beginners – Part 1, that is posted in the archives on this website. If you have not… you missed a lot and I highly recommend that you go back and read Part 1 first before reading this part….
Sooner or later, a lot of beginner metal detectorists see artifacts from the Civil War found by other metal detectorists and, as a result, find themselves also wanting to search for and recover some of those amazing relics from a most traumatic period of our history when the United States went to war with ourselves….
In other words… is your target digging and recovery technique as good as the “Old Pros…” or… is it robbing you of MANY good finds??? Find out which by reading on. The backstory I start with will “set the stage” for what I will share about how to maximize your finds. A couple of years…
It is absolutely true that “Dumb Luck” strikes a Treasure Hunter like lightning does on rare occasions and they find… or stumble upon… a valuable cache of treasure even though they were doing a number of things wrong in the way they were going about searching for treasures. The odds of that finder being you are about…
Let’s assume for talking purposes here, that if you are a newbie to metal detecting, time has passed and you followed my advice given in Part 1 of this article about avoiding long gone homesites and so you have hunted only those still standing, up to now. You have chalked up over a hundred hours…
I truly love to metal detect old housesites and over the past 5 decades I have done a lot of them. A fair number of those have been quite good to me, yielding up a quantity of really old coins, lots of old artifacts from about all periods of American history… and… some nice pieces…