How To Search an Abandoned Homestead Site Located in Remote Wooded Area
Metal Detecting Strategy for Searching the "Hunted Out" Homestead Site with Cellar Holes
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e) Outskirts of the site, which include the areas outside the site's perimeter outlined by the stone walls, and along the brooks that flow nearby.
The site's outskirts always yield a variety of valuable finds besides coins. And these areas are easy to search as they do not content a lot of trash. All you have to do is just to be patient and wait until your metal detector receives a good solid signal.
This half of the 1812 War artillery 2nd regiment Cap Plate was recovered from the brook.
When you come across the "hot" spot and start finding a few coins, buttons, etc., "hammer" the spot in a "spiral search pattern," i.e. moving around the hole, where the last good target have been found, and a little away from it with each new circle. After you deplete the spot of all good signals, begin working on the bad ones - dig up the iron targets and then recover more coins that were buried under them!
If you stay disciplined and search the remote sites systematically, one at a time, you will experience the same thrill as the one the pioneers of metal detecting experienced back in the 1970s! You will unearth the same or larger amount of coins and other valuables at these same remote homestead sites!
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