Choosing A Metal Detecting Site
Some folks think, 'heck! I don't know of any places where I live that I could or would go metal detecting'. Below is just
a few of the sites you can go metal detecting at:
Schools - These are HOT areas for
metal detecting, most towns or even rural areas have a school, some have multiple ones. Schools that are currently open
during school season are a great place to find modern coins and even a few clads, also numerous trinkets, diecast cars,
and cheaper jewelry items can easily be found on modern school grounds.
If you are as lucky as I am, then you live in a rural or country area that keeps a lot of their old buildings. I know where there
are two old buildings that served as one room school houses, these places were open in the late 1800's to the early 1940's.
Just inmagine the wonderful finds these old grounds may be hiding. The old one room school houses also served as churches,
social halls, farm grange buildings, and as meeting places for scouts, ladies aid societys and more.
Some of these old buildings also had there own treasure chests, that's right. Many churches and old one room school houses when they were built, the
local kids or adults would bury a chest on the grounds or under a corner stone of the building. The chest was a sort of
time capsule containing coins, newspapers and other unique items from the times when the building was erected.
Woods - The woods can be awesome
for metal detecting if one knows what to look for. Look for old paths, those are great places to detect along. Old paths in
the woods served as shortcuts to open fields for farmers to get their equipment through, or for cattle to follow and more.
In a wooded area not far from when I grew up as a child I know where there is an old path, now grown up with trees and
bushes, most folks would overlook it or not know it's history. My grandfather and dad built the road by blasting tree
stumps with dynamite and by hand cutting. They used the path to quickly get tractors, and other farm machinery to another
open field below the woods. Just inmagine the number of times my own dad and grandfather probably sat along this old
road, eating their lunch or sipping some cool lemonaid. Any time someone sat along a road eating lunch, they would often
pull an old cloth hanky from their pocket to blow their nose or even wipe their mouth, often losing some pocket change at
the same time.
Another rare but great metal detecting site can often be found in the woods, these are old stone foundations and old
stone chimneys, each has the potential for a rare gold coin or a jar of old silver dollars. Remember at one time this old
stone foundation or fireplace was part of a familys home, with kids playing, parties and numerous outdoor activites.
Riverbanks - This is a huge area,
that a lot of folks don't even think about for metal detecting. River banks were used as ferry crossings, some had
covered bridges with toll stattions. The local old timers may be able to tell you where the local fishing and old
swimming spots were. Remember many of the old fishing spots were also drinking and partying spots, and at the swimming
holes a lot of people took of their outer clothes, losing change as they did. And going back even earlier in the years,
folks would take their clothes to the riverbanks to wash them in the water.
Some other great Metal Detecting sites are - Parks, Beaches, Old ball fields, Playgrounds, Fairgrounds, Camping Sites, Camps, Ghost Towns, Battlefields,
old picnic spots, around the shores of ponds and lakes.
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