I Won't Top This One!
I had been pounding one of my favourite spots for about a year before digging what will surely be my best find. I had pulled about 10 coppers out of one side of the area but only ventured to the othe…
I had been pounding one of my favourite spots for about a year before digging what will surely be my best find. I had pulled about 10 coppers out of one side of the area but only ventured to the othe…
We've all heard it before, no site is hunted out. That statement rang true to me one Sunday morning in September when I decided to hunt a site I had been to many times and had always come home with s…
This past autumn, my wife was hospitalized for about two months with a very serious illness. We live in the mountains of the Eastern Sierra, but the hospital was near Santa Barbara, about 300 miles f…
As the season came to a close here in Michigan in late November and the snow began to fall, I decided to ask a home owner named Betty if I could hunt her yard come spring this year. The home dates to…
Recently we had a club hunt at a local beach here in central California. I started out using my trusty TDI SL but found out immediately that there was way too much iron and other trash on this beach t…
I found these two silver denarii of the emperor Commodus and Faustina Senior in the basilica of Hippos. These coins were found at the base of a large column at a depth of 12 inches. This was important…
5-6 cent CE Byzantine official weight of 6 metric ounces, 150 grams, inlay of silver and copper, a cross above the Golgotha in between two columns and an arch, a gamma and a sigma. The piece is of br…
I went to an old site today and this place is mega trashy, nails everywhere!!! I tried several different methods of hunting and TTF was the only option where I could get decent signals, and I crawled…
While detecting in Arizona with my GPX 5000 I heard a faint signal on a small basalt boulder due to the iron content in it. The signal was much stronger on one end of it. I took a few swipes with my…