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Lord Marcovan Original500© Member  Robertson Shinnick
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DIGS O' THE DAY (2008-08-24): HENRY FORD'S LOST CHILDREN This previously-unpublished outing was my only summer detector outing for 2008, and predictably, it was too hot. I ended up with sunburn on my neck. The finds were not that great so I never wrote this up as a "Digs O' The Day" episode until just now, after posting my Halloween story. Since I took plenty of pictures on that August outing, though, I thought I'd give it a quick recap. My friend Ty got us permission to detect at an old Victorian house in Old Town Brunswick. It looked promising. When we rolled up, the most prominent feature of the front yard was a moldering old 1956 or '57 Thunderbird, partially mummified under a cover that was peeling away. Ty said the folks who previously occupied the house used to work on cars there.  It was plain to see they had liked Fords. A 1980s-vintage smaller-sized LTD or Crown Victoria was being swallowed by a wild grapevine. I tried a couple of the grapes- muscadines- and they weren't bad at all. You have to pick the really dark purple ones that almost look black, though. Ty picked one that was not quite so dark and popped it into his mouth, whereupon his eyes bugged out and his face puckered into all kinds of hilarious contortions, much to my amusement. I guess it was pretty tart.  We got down to the business of detecting, but it was disappointing. I did manage to find a 1935 Wheat cent, but that was about it for older coins. There has to be some silver or older stuff in the yard, but we didn't find it. At least we weren't badly plagued by old stray auto parts in the ground, except for a few bolts and wires and such.  Ty found a Wheat cent, too, but that was about it. We were sweating and beginning to get quite uncomfortable in the heat.  Behind the house, almost totally hidden by the brush, another dead car rotted away. This one was so badly disintegrated as to be pretty much unrecognizable. A vague hunch tells me it was probably once a Ford, though.  On the south side of the house, beneath some tall bamboo plants, there were even more cars. Yep, you guessed it- Fords. There was a full-sized Crown Vic beside the house, and inside the garage there was an old 1930-something Model A. Actually, the car under the blue tarp was a black sheep in the flock of Fords- it turned out to be a Cadillac.  With the sun and our boredom taking their toll, we left and went on out to St. Simons Island. In one place, Ty noticed they'd cleared some woods for new construction, so we checked the site out. It proved to have obviously had an old building on the site- there was lots of old brick and glass in the dirt. Though the vanished building had obviously disappeared long ago and been overgrown by woods prior to the recent bulldozing, I was able to determine that it was not much older than the about the mid-1900s, from the types of glass and junk found in the immediate area. Still, it was in a part of the island that had been occupied continuously since the 1700s, so we checked it out. Even though the traces of the old ruined building were not that old, I knew they were old enough to potentially have some silver coins, too. Unfortunately the buried trash, mostly old tin cans, was pretty awful, and I got sick of it pretty fast. We moved off away from where the old building had been and the signals diminished greatly. I decided to focus on this "cleaner" area, though, since any earlier relics would be easier to find if I didn't have to dig through a layer of 1940s trash to get to them. Pretty much all that turned up were bullets, which wasn't that surprising since the area had been heavily wooded and visited only by hunters for the past 50 years or more. The only interesting find I got was a small button (actually, I think it is a snap fastener), with an anchor and crown motif on it. It's pretty old, but almost certainly dates to the 20th century.  It wasn't that great an outing, but most of the time the heat and humidity sapped my enthusiasm. Summer is my usual "off season" when it comes to outdoor activities like detecting. Oh, well- at least we got out for a little while.  -RWS INDEX OF PAST ADVENTURES AND FINDS
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librtyhead Original500© Member 
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Did you hear a super loud PING........maybe a car is buried. . Cool story.
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Millennium Original500© Member
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Good story Rob......I wish I could write that well....When are we going again?
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Lord Marcovan Original500© Member Robertson Shinnick
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librtyhead wrote: Did you hear a super loud PING........maybe a car is buried. I was worried that might happen. Believe me, there have been sites where I wondered! One place on Hawkins Island, which used to be the old Sea Island dump, I dug the knob to an old washing machine of about 1960s vintage. To my complete astonishment, the knob was still ATTACHED to the rest of the washing machine! Well, the top part, anyway. I didn't excavate any further to see if the rest was there! Back when I used the old Garrett GTAx-550, I made a digital mockup of what the target ID display meter SHOULD have looked like, if some of the larger targets were added to the lineup... (I didn't put "1960s Kenmore Washing Machine" on there, though. Or "Giant Hunk Of Old Aluminum Siding", which was one of the "treasures" I found in my backyard when we bought this property.) Steve, I hope we get out again someday soon, maybe before the end of the year. The way our schedules seem to go, though, who knows? I'm definitely game for it, though, now that the heat and skeeters ain't so bad...
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