Metal Detecting / Treasure Hunting discussion : How to, tricks/tips, your finds, equipment, fuck bot
477 replies, posted
Metal detecting has always interested me. The problem I have is my area has never had anything interesting, so id find jack shit.
Also metal detectors are expensive as fuck.
[QUOTE=jiri;47946288]I have a question, i am going to germany this summer, and I am planning to buy a metal detector, it can detect 30-40cm deep.. Is this enough to find coins or weapons or other ww2 items?
Also I have read somewhere that it is legal to MD in Germany, and that you only need A permit at certain sites, or approval by a landowner. but here I read that it is "illegal" could you please explain it to me ?
"srry if I am asking too much"
And I am having trouble finding any battle locations on the west/southern front of Germany " battle of the bulge" for example.
Thanks in advance
Jiri Dubislav[/QUOTE]
According to this map [URL=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Wacht_am_Rhein_map_%28Opaque%29.svg/634px-Wacht_am_Rhein_map_%28Opaque%29.svg.png]here[/URL] you should check out west of [URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monschau]Monschau[/URL] and maybe North-West of [URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%BCm]Prüm[/URL]
Couple of coins. 1 and 5 markkaa, both 1983.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/iEzGVvJh.jpg[/t]
The 1 markka has a silver coating but it's mostly copper inside
I remember when me and my brother went metal detecting only once, years ago with our dad on our local beach at the time. We detected the entire beach, and came home with £5 each :v:
Really hope I could get back into metal detecting eventually.
[QUOTE=Orkel;47625832]Found this cheap pendant yesterday:
[img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430410028.jpg[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430395262.jpg[/img]
Also fuck
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1430392155.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
That pendant could easily be the base for a cheap horror movie plot.
Stumbled upon a relatively new coin spill. They just kept coming out the same hole. The coins are dated 1993-1996.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1434930127.jpg[/t]
Seven 1 markka coins and one 5 markka coin
Oldest coin find so far. I walked to the field, swung my detector only 5 times before I found this:
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1436690352.png[/t]
It's a ½ Copeck coin made in 1799.
The time period of the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland (when we were a part of Russia) began in 1809, so the timeframe fits.
[editline]11th July 2015[/editline]
Fun fact: Elias Lönnrot, the father of the Finnish language and writer of the national epic of Finland (Kalevala), owned and lived at the field/farm I dug this coin up at, from 1830 to 1848. Would be funny if he was the one that dropped the Russian coin.
20mm musket ball from the 1600s or 1700s. The soldiers at Kajaani Castle used to fire these back in the days (castle was blown up in 1716), found it 1km from the ruins.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1437470679.png[/t]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9HgIPoFl.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mcE5lIQ.jpg[/IMG]
Found this up in oregon a while back.
A neighbor hooked me up with an old guy whose father hid guns around his farm during WW2. Will go with him tomorrow to search the place up, should be some interesting stuff to find. It's extremely likely that the old guy's father buried the guns in full grease, and even below some floor boards, so they might be in awesome condition (assuming I find any).
Checked out the sauna today. There's something under the floor. Seriously. We have no idea what it is yet, but the detector went nuts over that particular spot that just happens to be hollow. We'll open it on Sunday most likely.
Only 200m from the house, there is an old German battleline full of foxholes and stuff. It's going to be a goldmine. The guy at the house had already found an old Spork (spoon/fork combo) with the German eagle and swastika on it, in perfect condition, without using a detector. I had no idea this shit was so close to my city.
So on Sunday we'll both open up the floor (hopefully revealing old German or Russian rifles) and also detect the shit out of the foxholes.
Is it possible to use one of these metal detectors to find metal ores, particularly iron? How hard would it be to find e.g. a backpack worth of iron ore (excluding everything else you might find with a metal detector)? Would you need to travel extremely far before you even see anything, or can you find minuscule amounts pretty much anywhere?
[QUOTE=Nikita;48468465]Is it possible to use one of these metal detectors to find metal ores, particularly iron? How hard would it be to find e.g. a backpack worth of iron ore (excluding everything else you might find with a metal detector)? Would you need to travel extremely far before you even see anything, or can you find minuscule amounts pretty much anywhere?[/QUOTE]
Iron not so much Iron tends to take much refining to get usable amounts out of ore,you can prospect gold and silver with it though.
Tomorrow's place of interest is an overgrown mini-town.
1950s
[img]http://i.imgur.com/GdCxZg5.jpg[/img]
Today
[img]http://i.imgur.com/UoVydQl.jpg[/img]
Should be a treasure trove.
Overgrown was an understatement. It's an absolute thicket of chest high nettles and two metre high poisonous blister generators also known as giant hogweed.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1442894328.jpg[/t]
Good luck swinging the detector around in there. It's been 6 hours and my fingers are still stinging from the hogweed.
Still managed some finds though. This was probably the most interesting one, a 10 penniä coin from 1935.
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWf0qbGU8F8[/hd]
Also found a 5 penniä 1966, a cheapo aluminium ship-themed medallion, and some copper relics from the houses like hinges, pipes, etc.
I'll have to revisit the site in the spring. When there isn't a metric fuckton of evil shrubbery blocking all detection.
House foundations.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1442891318.jpg[/t]
A completely uncovered well, wouldn't want to fall in there.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1442909464.jpg[/t]
Broke my coin age record twice today. Went to search at one of the oldest fields around town and found these two within 30 minutes of starting.
1 Daler coin, 1718. The condition is obviously horrendous because ground fucks copper up. And it's been in the ground for 300 years.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443239514.jpg[/t] [t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443206963.jpg[/t]
[url=http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15694.html]How it originally looked. It's marked "silvermynt" but it's actually made of copper[/url]
1 Ör coin, 1735. One side is readable, but the other has been fucked up by time (and probably some harvest machine) so I didn't bother taking a pic of the rear.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443249550.jpg[/t]
[url=http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6795.html]How it originally looked. Same silvermynt shenanigans[/url]
[editline]25th September 2015[/editline]
The Ör right after digging it up, it's a pretty big and thick coin and gave a 90s signal on the AT Pro
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443281535.jpg[/t]
Sweet finds!
Broke my age record yet again, this time on a field 10 km from the city, one of the oldest fields we have dating back to the 1500s-1600s.
The coin I found is from around 1670-1680, a 1/6 Ör. It's corroded to shit. This is an intact example:
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443408729.jpg[/t]
The only things readable from my coin are faint reminders of the "R" and "S", and also the "Ör" with the "M" under it. Rest of the coin has either chipped off or simply corroded/eroded to nothing. Extremely faint outlines of one of the crowns can be seen under strong light at a certain angle but that's it.
[editline]27th September 2015[/editline]
Also found a 2 Copeck coin (russian) from 1811, might put some pics later of it as it's in good condition.
My buddy found a silver belt buckle. And also a 1680s coin in [I]way[/I] better condition, as in everything was readable. Because the ground at that point was very marsh-y, preserving it excellently, while the coin I found was in the middle of the field with drier and harsher conditions.
The 2 kopeks coin (1811).
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443477252.jpg[/t] [t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443413062.jpg[/t]
Today's finds:
-5 kopeks 1830's
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443602540.jpg[/t]
-1 kopek 1843
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443633466.jpg[/t]
-½ kopek ~1840's
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1443597997.jpg[/t]
All of them are in horrendous condition. Just compare to the 2 kopek coin in my post above. The ground type matters a fuckton in how well they get preserved.
You can see the cracks on the surface in the pictures, that's the oxidised layer which contains all the details simply chipping off from being exposed to air. Eventually it'll just be a flat disk with no discernible detail. When viewed in real life, the coins have more detail. I'm able to read the words better than in these pictures, which are taken with a cellphone camera under bad lighting conditions.
I need to figure out a way to preserve old coins properly. Some people dip them in a thin layer of melted wax which creates a transparent protective layer.
[editline]29th September 2015[/editline]
Also the 5 kopeks coin is fucking huge, it's bigger than the Ör coin from a previous post
A well preserved 1 Ör coin from 1761.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1444754516.jpg[/t] [t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1444722436.jpg[/t]
Some other coins: first is the 1 Ör 1761, then is a 1 Kopeck 1841, and then my oldest find so far which is the 1 Ör 1686. On the top, there's a small 1 Penni coin from 1866, and some kind of lead disc that looks like a coin but is probably not. Not sure what it is tbh, there's some markings on it but it's lead and the other side is totally smooth.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1444774607.jpg[/t]
Today's finds.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1444855665.jpg[/t]
Top left, bottom left, and bottom middle, are all the same coins. 1 Ör from 1724. But you can see how different ground affects preservation. The top left one was found from the middle of a forest road dating back to the 1500s. It was superbly preserved in the forest's mushy ground, the camera can't capture it that well (it still has fresh shine from the coin press at some spots). The bottom left and middle were found in a wheat field closeby, you can see the difference is dramatic from the much more potent ground and all the insect poisons and weed killers used over the centuries. Barely can make them out.
Top middle is a 1 Daler coin from 1715. Very well preserved considering it's precisely 300 years old.
Top right is a 1 Skilling coin from 1807.
Bottom right is a 1 Penni coin from the 1880s.
All of them are copper.
[editline]13th October 2015[/editline]
The fields
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BpphDdZrqE[/hd]
The old forest road next to the fields
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWu5TA54TDo[/hd]
Really want to get into metal detecting. Probably will if I don't buy a rifle or anything this year. I live in an area with lots of history, dating back to 2850 BC. Highly doubt I'd find any metal objects from that long ago, but there have been lots of other historic settlers around here such as the Romans. US military forces were stationed here during WW2 as well, and there are rumours that when the war ended, instead if taking all the equipment home with them, they left a lot of it buried in the forest where it was hidden from German bombers during the war. In fact, I just found a source saying that a lot of equipment was indeed kept there! But nothing saying it was buried unfortunately.
I have a feeling theres a lot of history to be uncovered around me and I really want to get into it. Could anyone recommend me a decent detector for £100/£200? I've heard good things about the Garrett AT Pro.
[img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1446484849.jpg[/img]
The ground's frozen and it's snowing, still detecting because Finland
Season is pretty much over.. 6 months till the thick snow melts.
Here's some old stuff (the best stuff) that I found in 2015
First pic. Two silver rings. A 500 markka coin. A 1862 silver spoon handle with a still visible name engraving (Hanna). A half of a silver buckle (not posted before about it). Multiple 1700s-1800s Russian coins. Several 1800s Penni coins from the Finnish duchy period. Multiple musket balls from 1600s-1800s. And the green coin which is the Italian centesimi from 1864 or so.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1450560986.jpg[/t]
Second pic. A ton of Swedish coins from their occupation, they range from 1600s to 1800s. The coins include the big 2 öre and 1 öre coins, some Skillings and Dalers. The 50 cent coin is for scale.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1450538044.jpg[/t]
Also, this buckle.
[t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1450560781.jpg[/t] [t]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1450529985.jpg[/t] [t]http://s7.postimg.org/g7gdymnyz/fra.png[/t]
Turns out it's a shoe buckle from mid-1700s. It's amazingly well preserved for its age, completely intact and all the moving parts still move as if it was new. I could mount it on a shoe right now and it'd work 100%.
Other than these pics, I've found several dozen old buttons, dozens of buckles (none intact like the above tho) and hundreds of newer 1900s coins, and some miscellanous stuff like toy cars and soldiers.
That's awesome!
Damn that's amazing. I'm surprised you can find so well preserved items from 200-300 years ago. Have you ever thought about looking for items on old battlefields? Is that legal?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;49345227]Damn that's amazing. I'm surprised you can find so well preserved items from 200-300 years ago. Have you ever thought about looking for items on old battlefields? Is that legal?[/QUOTE]
It's legal but I wouldn't call it safe, just this summer a bunch of Russian detectorists got themselves blown up in Lapland when they tried to dig up an old mine.
Just try to dig around the signal, never just shove your shovel anywhere..
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
Metal Detecting / Treasure Hunting discussion : How to, tricks/tips, your finds, equipment, fuck bot
