Metal Detecting: Glass Find

Metal Detecting: Glass Find

On my travels whilst metal detecting with the Garrett Ace 250 i came accross a site within some bushes that was totally littered with random pieces of junk metal, loads of them. Within all this metal were loads of old glass bottles, so as i would dig the metal signals i would come accross old buried bottles..I will have to go back to this site (Bottle Dump?) when i get some time. Many of the bottles were damaged, i think i even broke a few being as eager as i am to unearth things!

Some of the broken bottles, some of the small ones, were so nice that i was tempted to take them, but i didn't. With them being broke i thought i don't want to take home pure rubbish, if they were intact i would of took them all home. There are still loads of old glass bottles on this site. Here is one i managed to unearth intact! It's pretty small, about 3 ½ inches high. It must be old because it has blunt glass spikes all over it, except for a smooth, round middle piece in the center, which i presume was where an old sticker or label was stuck on.

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One Shilling Coin Find

One Shilling Coin Find

Was searching my back garden with my metal detector, found quite a few coins. Most were just copper coins that were from the 1980s, but I did manage to find a One Shilling Coin dated 1960. It's in bad condition, but still a decent find. I might get back out there in a few days and search the rest of the garden. I put this coin into a glass of Coca Cola because i read somewhere that it cleans it really well, but it didn't work..Does anyone know what to use in order to get a coin clean..Soapy water, which was used on this one doesn't bring it up very clean..Or maybe I should just use water and then leave it for preservation reasons..

Metal Detecting - Found The Same Item

Metal Detecting - Found The Same Item

Went out for another little metal detect today, being pushed for time, and with it getting dark here at about 4pm, I only had 1 hour yet again to have a look around. I went back to the same place I was at yesterday, and as the title says, i found the same type of item that I  found yesterday, except where the one yesterday had green plastic inside, this one has white.

There was also lots of foil that I did not come accross yesterday. I must of dug around 15 signals in the time I was there..11 of them were foil!, the other two where phantom signals, I could not find what they were..I think these two phantoms where due to soil mineralization, but i could be wrong.

Here is the item i found today. Same thing as yesterday but with white plastic. I think this could be a screw top for some kind of petrol cannister because inside the middle around the sides there is a thread, so it looks like it's the top for something to screw onto. Weird top!

This is another item i found today. Im not sure what it is, but its a weird item. The metal circle goes through the straight metal on one side, but is welded on the other..Do you know what it is?

Until the next time...

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Metal Detector Find

Metal Detector Find

I went out for a quick metal detect today, after not going out with it for a while i thought the detector needed a little workout. I only had about an hour or so to metal detect before it went dark. I went back to a spot where i have been before, back to the first place i went metal detecting when i first bought the Garrett Ace 250. This time i strayed off from where i was before, which had lots of junk and foil in the ground, and i went into a wooded area that i have never hunted before. Straight away i had strong signals, i thought maybe it was foil, but thought what the hell, i haven't been out with the detector for a while and i don't mind digging anything! Anyway i dug away and came accross a big square piece of dirty metal. Yes it was junk, but i was happy that it was something different to foil as most of the surrounding area has so much foil it's annoying.

I threw that to one side and carried on metal detecting, i couldn't swing the detector more then twice without getting a signal..So i started digging again, about 2 feet away from the previous hole where i found the square metal sheet. I dug down pretty deep and was having trouble locating whatever it was giving me the signal. After some more digging i seen something poking out the side of the hole, pulled it out and thought, "what the hell is that". This object looked like an old motorcycle helmet, the old ones that use to be made of just leather, with two eye holes that had a metal rim and plastic lenses inside! It was not intact so i just threw it to one side and carried on metal detecting.

By this stage i was happy, it been a while since ive been out with the detector, and im actually finding items other then foil. I decided to walk without swinging the detector for about 20 meters, just to look in a different area. Once i started swinging the detector i got another signal..I pinpointed this signal because it was something pretty small (The Garrett Ace 250 Pinpoint function works really well). The detector indicated that this item was about 4 inches deep, so i dug down, and pretty quickly found what it was..It looks to me like an old part from a heater or lamp? But im not sure because the green inside is plastic, and the base has no holes, except one the has been stabbed into it (See Pic). What is it? Any ideas.. I thought i'd take it with me anyway. The place where i went today seems pretty good and there's much more ground to search there, i only had a bit of time today, but i'll go back there when i have more time to spare. I'll keep you posted.

Metal Detectors And Rain Dont Mix

Metal Detectors And Rain Dont Mix

I have been itching to get out with the metal detector over the past few days, but the rain is so bad that it's not worth even trying. I don't think it would be enjoyable anyway in the rain...Having to scan, put the detector on the wet muddy floor, then dig in the wet mud, possibly getting on your knees..In the mud..Soaking wet! Then all that just to find a rusty nail..Hmmm..I think I'll wait until the weather gets a little better. I don't want to break the Garrett Ace 250.

I know there are add-ons you can buy for the Garrett Ace 250, like the cover for the box and coil etc. But with the rain the way it is, it's not worth going out metal detecting full stop. The rain is that bad.

More Metal Detecting - Less Luck

Went out for a metal detect yesterday up on an old dirt mount covered with trees and bushes..After getting a strong signal from the Ace 250 i started to dig, it said the item was 2 inches deep. Once i dug 2 inches deep the Garrett Ace 250 changed it's mind  and said the item was now 6 inches deep..So i kept on digging but could not locate the target. i wasn't going to stop digging until i found what was there. After digging a big deep hole i was met with a concrete floor! There must of been metal within the concrete. I felt robbed!

So i moved on to another part of the same mound. I soon got more strong signals...I started to dig and was met with the same..Bricks and concrete. After a while i stopped digging up these signals because they were all giving off the same signal sound from the Garrett Ace 250.

I think there must of been a building on this mound many years ago, and i think the concrete and bricks were probably the footings of the house / building.

Until the next time.............