Last summer, I spent three sweltering days exploring an abandoned Baltimore & Ohio line that cut through rural Ohio farmland. My detector screamed at a solid signal near what was once a small station platform, and after digging down about six inches, I unearthed a tarnished pocket watch—railroad grade, from around 1910. As I carefully […]
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I remember my first “real” find like it was yesterday. After months of pulling up bottle caps and rusty nails, my detector gave that sweet, solid tone that makes your heart skip. Six inches down in a field that had seen Civil War soldiers march through a century and a half earlier, I found a
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I first became fascinated with river crossing sites after finding a bent wagon pin near the banks of the North Platte. Standing there, watching the water flow, I couldn’t help but imagine the countless pioneers who had stood in that exact spot, facing the dangerous crossing that lay ahead. These forgotten pathways have stories to
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I’ll never forget the first time I unearthed a brass button from the soil of an abandoned Illinois homestead. As I brushed away the dirt, the faint eagle design emerged—a tangible connection to someone who stood on that same spot 150 years ago. That’s the magic of metal detecting on 19th century Midwest farmsteads. The
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These everyday objects tell intimate stories about security, personal possessions, and the changing technology of protection through the decades.
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Metal detecting allows us to uncover the personal and fashion items that people carried, wore, and eventually lost throughout history.
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My comprehensive collection of metal detecting finds includes numerous tools and implements that span decades, if not centuries, of human industry.
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The ordinary household items we recover while metal detecting tell intimate stories about how people lived, worked, and built their surroundings.
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