Scanning Church Yards - An Idea

I would ask Kenscott, you just never know what you will find until you start swinging the coil.

Vermontensium, I would try and use this data to find out who owns the property of which you speak. I use it here in N.C. and it is great. Although I find the CA. version to not be as user friendly. It can tell who owns the property and their mailing address so you can send them a letter asking permission.
http://www.coordinatedlegal.com/gis.html


All others, if you wish to use the mapping data like the link I posted above, just do a search for your state and GIS. IE: n.c.gis (GIS stands for Geological Information Survey).

Thanks Tim!
California is not exactly the "detectorists friend".
I usually detect the beaches with member mmorgan22.
We find a lot of clad but are still waiting to see who hits gold first!
I had an aluminum size 10 ring a few weeks back.

I would love to find a Morgan!

I have detected in a church yard and parsonage before. Church has been there for over 100 years. The entrace to the building used to be on another side though. Also I think that the ground had been built up a little over the years. In my area they used to have picnics at the church all the time. I found some coins but nothing very old. Found a plate ring too. But I did not want to dig very deep because the church is still in use. There were a lot of nice signals down at the 9-12 inch range. Were ever people congragate there are bound to be lost items. I've found dropped things out in the middle of fields. Turned out there were houses there people had forgot about, or that they used to have small carnivals out in a field.

Has anyone thought of doing research to find places where old churches might have one been
but have long been gone?

This could go back hundreds of years depending on one's patience. I am thinking on trying to
do such myself via old newspaper articles and local accounts from old timers.

Hi all. One of the areas I've detected with varying levels of success, mostly for the better, is under a large tree.

Think about it. On a hot summer day, where is the best place to go sit? Underneath a large tree. If the tree has been there for a hundred years, a lot of different people might have sat under it. Coins tend to fall out of pockets, sometimes without people knowing.

Also, back a hundred years ago, there weren't many jungle gyms for kids to climb on. So they used to climb trees. Chances are stuff fell out of their pockets then too.

Whenever I go to a new area, I always detect around the big trees first, before I set up mental grids and work smaller areas, this is especially true for churches where people gather on a weekly basis for several generations. The older the church, the older the coins are (though that's not fool proof).

Josh

I got a 18k gold necklace. (Sold for $3500 scrap) from my church yard. Other than that a few pennies and junk.

I Donated $750 to my church! For letting me detect and just from the good of my heart :)

All in All@

I made $$$ and donated!