Metal Detecting and relic hunting

Certainly anyone getting that big of a target would use care in digging vs the Filipinos that dig blindly without any knowledge of what is beneath.

 

Came across enough Russian ordinance in Afghanistan when clearing the site for construction. It was an Afghan Army base so they would come get what we found (literally picked them up and drove off with them; used to freak me out).

If you have your detector dialed in and have a bit of experience with the machine you can discriminate between coins and jewelry or a large ferrous metal object. Depending on the machine you can eliminate bottle caps as well, but on small things I always dig them. Can be frustrating but you never know what you could find.

Shawn

 

I detected a very large ferrous object underneath my vegetable patch back home - the thoughts of an Anglo-Saxon hoard crossed my mind, or maybe a bomb - it turned out to an entire car engine!