Metal Detectorist Mick

05/25/2024

At the new permission site and the Manticore uncovered it's first silver coin, a 1964 US Dime. Also hit on some deep targets that turned out to be a trash pit with intact bottles. The finds included two brown glass bottles minus the stoppers and a Fitch's bottle. You Google detectives will have to determine what a Fitch's bottle is and from what era. Metal Detector Sales thanks for the Maticore. Works great!

05/21/2024

I found this spoon at a new metal detecting permission site yesterday. The brand of flatware is 1847 Rogers Bros. and this particular pattern had its first production in 1878. The site was either an old residence or a school house. I've gotten conflicting information but it's looking more like a residence with this find. The lot has been empty since atleast the late 1930s or early 1940s.

04/24/2024

Metal Detecting is leveling up! Finally picked up a Minelab Manticore. In teaching photography I have always said equipment should be fresh and new, metal detecting is no different. It's Minelab's state of the art at the moment.

04/14/2024

From last weekends search of a permission site. 1899 Indian Head Penny. Beautiful patina.

12/29/2023

New detecting video was just published. Hope you had a great year and all the best for 2024.

I continued to dig into the history of long ago disputed farm land near Rickreall, Oregon. In this episode the search expanded to a second site on the same ...

11/17/2023

I secured a new detecting site after a couple months of research and finally tracking down the owner. I will be heading out tomorrow morning. The site is near Detroit Lake, Oregon and is the former site of a Civilian Conservation Corp camp from the early 1930s. There were several buildings there in two rows. Here they are on an old topographical map from 1958 versus what it is today. The structures were gone by the late 1980s and pretty sure this is virgin ground. Fortunately this is was not burned in the fires of 2020 and is outside the boundaries of the Army Corp of Engineers who govern the lake at the former town of Detroit at the bottom of the lake. The former town of Detroit under the lake is a protected archeological site. More to come.

04/15/2023

I found this while detecting in a hazelnut orchard. It's a Massachusetts Militia button, and was only about 2" down. What its doing in Oregon is beyond me. I got some conflicting info I found and I'm having trouble pinning down the year. One said it was pre-civil war, the other was from around 1908. This land had a house on it and was gone as late as 1954. The ebay listing is just to show a similar one in like new condition. Seems to be a variation of the one I found.

01/31/2023

Latest video at the 1939 Eola Village Migrant Labor Camp in Yamhill County, Oregon.

This permission site was Eola Village Mirgrant Labor camp in Yamhill County, Oregon. Built in 1939, the village housed migrants during The Great Depression....

01/31/2023

Here are this weekends finds. Not sure what this one thing is. It's sterling silver and looks like a handle of some kind or maybe a berette. Any ideas? All the other oddities kept popping up again. This one thing that I believe had this glass lens in the end. Looks like a valve stem cap but its not threaded.

01/23/2023

Here are this weekends finds. I pulled this silver 1904-S Barber Dime out of the ground today. Couple of unknown date pennies, a thimble and just a collections of oddities.

01/13/2023

Here are some great find from the past few months.

01/13/2023

For some reason, and I don't know when, my page became invisible on FB. I had to publish the page in order to be seen. So I'm back.

01/31/2022

01/20/2022

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12/22/2021

Sometimes life is rolling along finding all kinds of cool treasures and then you wake the next day and life has thrown you a curve ball. I've developed some severe sciatica and will be down for a bit recovering. Now I'm on an old man cane. In the mean time I will research some new places and gain permissions. Doctors say 6 - 8 weeks but hopefully less than that. It's rainy season here too so atleast I got that occurring while I'm down.
Dig on my friends. Mick