Danny13 said:
Goldpick how good is your site , nice chain , any idea what it's made from!
Probably some sort of copper alloy with gold gilt, typical Victorian era stuff that you find on most of these sites - just the same as what I found today, except with more pretty stones.
And with that cue we come to todays hunt, a combo over two now defunct railway sidings. I'd sort of given up detecting both spots due to imposssible to penetrate vegetation, and a general feeling of there not being much more to offer.
The mission of the day was to run purely on 54kHz to see what was left behind in the low conductor range. This frequency really allows thin and small targets to punch through loud and clear, sometimes resulting in a rather loud tone from a stupidly small targets (flattened lead slugs, thin copper flakes, .22 casings, part shotgun cartridge ends, primers and wire etc). Whilst only one coin was found (1917 penny), it was a really good exercise to see what interesting small targets would crop up, as most would consider such items as "junk", when in reality they paint a broader picture on those who used to frequent the railways.
Copper rivets, boot eyelets, suitcase parts and tarp rivets are common place on such sites, though the one target that might have been missed on a lower frequency was the gold gilt bracelet with clear stones, a pretty cool find in my book. Not sure where I will head tomorrow, probably back to another old house site that hasn't seen the use of the HF coil as yet.
