Trip to Powell (Columbus)

My wife and I have friends in Powell (northern Columbus suburb) and try to visit them once a year. Last year when we were there they told us about how their church had purchased an old house with some land. Here is my wife and her girl friend in front of the old garage (church in background).



The purchase was worked out such that the old guy living there could remain another year. The only place they could put the road was right where the house stood. So it was going to come down. The house was built in 1900.



It had a little shed with some cool stuff in it.







We got down there on a Friday. John (Host) was going to his highschool football game that night and was just leaving as we pulled in. I declined his invitation to go to the game since there was “treasure to be found!”

Arriving at the site I was a little dishearteded to see they had already moved a bunch of dirt. I tried to quickly assessed what was “original” and what was worthless to hunt. It wasn't so easy to determine. There were not a lot of targets. I was encouraged to find an IH.



I didn't have a lot of time since I was going to meet the ladies for diner. Just as I was about to pack it up for the night I found a Canadian Large Cent.



So I was encouraged with two keepers. The girls thought it was cool but when John got home he really gave me the business. I guess he thought I should have been coming home with bags of silver.

Well the next day I got some of the shiny stuff.
I started near where I found the Canadian LC. Sure enough within 20 minutes or so I had a nice silver.....



5 Franc. Minted from 1865 to the early 1900s.

It was cool to see I could read the date (1867). I found some wheat pennies and a couple 40's mercs to end up with three silver.



Here is an image of what the coin looked like from the mint:



Also found an old Dog Tag and a couple insulators. The house must have been in Delaware even though we were staying in Powel.





Overall I thought I did a pretty thorough job on the site. And actually I did except I missed one coin....to make a long story short we had car trouble and my son ended up coming down the next day. He decided to hunt the place for an hour or so while my wife and I attended to other matters. He only found one good thing but it made it worthwhile:



Three days later all three of the building were gone:



All in all a fun trip with some decent keepers.

Grist Mill Hunt #2 Labor Day

Labor Day was nice weather and our family really didn't have anything planned so later in the day I went out detecting for an hour. I started in the area where I found the Barber Quarter. I got an old ford key.


I widened my area and found an area with a bunch of signals.



Knowing if there were a bunch of signals encouraged me that there had to something good yet to be found. Sure enough after kicking a small log out of the way I got a solid signal. There were lots of roots to dig through and the coin was deep. When I dug up the 1846 Large Cent I said to myself “Sweet!”.









Here is part of what remains of what was built in 1832. These stones are still in place although the under the road tunnel has been filled in.

Lawrence Mill Finds Hunt #1

During the Summer I had found a Mercury Dime in an open grassy part of the metroparks. It was close to the wooded area I knew had the old grist mill and
Dorvak home. Since the weather was cooling down and I wanted to see if I could find an old relic or two I wandered into the woods. I just looked for some
open areas to swing the coil.



As you can see from the pictures some of the spots are not huntable at this time. I found some open area and not too long into the hunt I got a great signal.



I was surprised to find a Barber Quarter.
A few feet away I got another good
signal and the 1897 IH came out of the ground.


Then I started digging all types of signals. I found pull tabs and misc junk and what I thought at the time was a gear turned out to be a bent up token.