My trip over the hill:
kevinstang
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This is the area I have had good luck finding the old copper at this past week:
View looking East atop the hill
View looking west atop the hill- that blue water is the St.Lawrence, and the far shore in the distance isn't the US.
Plaque at top of hill noting the bridge site
The Decent
First find of the day- buckle my detector picked up as my butt slid the hill, ouch
View to the West at bottom of hill
View to the East at bottom, in distance is the newest bridge cross the rail tracks, I am standing at the bottom below old bridge site
View from the bottom to the top- monument with plaque is in center top
Unfortunately this reminded me of that old indian in the commericial from the 70's- lots of broken plastic trash bags with garbage all over the hillside- made it all but impossible to find anything- lot of old soda cans crunched and hidden under leaves- and NY has a bottle deposit too... I guess a nickle doesn't mean much to some people (apparently even to those who can't afford to pay to have their trash hauled away).
First and only coin find of the day on the hill or at the bottom- a zincoln just below the leaves- no digging for it.
It was all but impossible to hunt the trackside as well, seems somewhere in the not to distance past the rails and ties were replaced and a new bed rail bed was put down to lay them on- fresh crush and run. The rail line is managed by a Federal Port authority, aparently they do not need the money to recycle the old steel rails and such, as they pushed them to the side and partially buried them- which made detecting the track siding all but impossible-more government waste. It also made quite the obstacle at bottom to get over at spots. I ended up way down by the new bridge, which replaced another stone bridge about 20 years ago. Looks like they just pushed most of the old stones aside from the demolishion. As I decided to go back up at this time, figured working my way over stones would be easier than going back up the brush- wrong, first stone gave way and I found myself falling with camera bag in one hand and metal detector in other face first into a picker bush- one of those ones that leave the sticky burrs all over you. Spent the next 15 minutes removing them from my clothes and everything else- luckily didn't get hurt and nothing got broken. Made my way to the top and started detecting my way back west along the top, when soon after surprise:
Thought for a moment I had another large copper, then it sunk in- who would have thought- a half dollar! My first half dollar ever- not silver, but oh well- a 1990-D. A minute or so later as I was plugging the hole back up, I heard a rumbling noise- looked down the hill-
Freight train! Guess I got out of there at the right time, not many trains run this line anymore.
Ended up picking up a couple quarters and dimes on my walk back along the top and 13 pennies, two of them being wheats- 1926 and 1946. Now I am definately tired out for a while- walking up and down the hillside holding a detector is alot more work than when going across flat ground, whew. HH !
View looking East atop the hill
View looking west atop the hill- that blue water is the St.Lawrence, and the far shore in the distance isn't the US.
Plaque at top of hill noting the bridge site
The Decent
First find of the day- buckle my detector picked up as my butt slid the hill, ouch
View to the West at bottom of hill
View to the East at bottom, in distance is the newest bridge cross the rail tracks, I am standing at the bottom below old bridge site
View from the bottom to the top- monument with plaque is in center top
Unfortunately this reminded me of that old indian in the commericial from the 70's- lots of broken plastic trash bags with garbage all over the hillside- made it all but impossible to find anything- lot of old soda cans crunched and hidden under leaves- and NY has a bottle deposit too... I guess a nickle doesn't mean much to some people (apparently even to those who can't afford to pay to have their trash hauled away).
First and only coin find of the day on the hill or at the bottom- a zincoln just below the leaves- no digging for it.
It was all but impossible to hunt the trackside as well, seems somewhere in the not to distance past the rails and ties were replaced and a new bed rail bed was put down to lay them on- fresh crush and run. The rail line is managed by a Federal Port authority, aparently they do not need the money to recycle the old steel rails and such, as they pushed them to the side and partially buried them- which made detecting the track siding all but impossible-more government waste. It also made quite the obstacle at bottom to get over at spots. I ended up way down by the new bridge, which replaced another stone bridge about 20 years ago. Looks like they just pushed most of the old stones aside from the demolishion. As I decided to go back up at this time, figured working my way over stones would be easier than going back up the brush- wrong, first stone gave way and I found myself falling with camera bag in one hand and metal detector in other face first into a picker bush- one of those ones that leave the sticky burrs all over you. Spent the next 15 minutes removing them from my clothes and everything else- luckily didn't get hurt and nothing got broken. Made my way to the top and started detecting my way back west along the top, when soon after surprise:
Thought for a moment I had another large copper, then it sunk in- who would have thought- a half dollar! My first half dollar ever- not silver, but oh well- a 1990-D. A minute or so later as I was plugging the hole back up, I heard a rumbling noise- looked down the hill-
Freight train! Guess I got out of there at the right time, not many trains run this line anymore.
Ended up picking up a couple quarters and dimes on my walk back along the top and 13 pennies, two of them being wheats- 1926 and 1946. Now I am definately tired out for a while- walking up and down the hillside holding a detector is alot more work than when going across flat ground, whew. HH !
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That wide grassy strip in the top two pics ("top of the hill") looks good.