Detecting With The Tykes

I had promised that I would wave the Garrett GTAx 550 around after I read about the recent 52,000 UK Roman coin find, and so yesterday I did just that. I had searched an elementary school playground just a block away once before and didn't find much, as I had been stymied by tiny metal bits in wood chips that the ancient White's couldn't discriminate, but the Garrett ignored 'em and zeroed in on the pile below - 90¢ in one spot near a swing where apparently one little fellow emptied his pocket - and other buried lost lunch money. Soon the neighborhood young 'uns, apparently attracted by an old guy waving a World War I Turkish bayonet around (along with the Garrett and a bright, lime-green plastic pail), converged on the site, carrying their basketballs and cell phones, and riding their bikes and Hot Wheels (if that's what they're called these days), and offered their help. (Apparently they didn't find someone waving a 14" bayonet around very frightening - obviously I need to work on my scary image.) After they surrounded me, the ground gave up only a couple of LMC's, bottle caps, and an entire aluminum can, and I gave up and headed for home, and they scattered.

The day was young, and after off-loading into a dumpster the litter I had also collected, I decided that I might as well explore a 10x25-foot area between the street and sidewalk in front of my house that for some reason I'd never tested before. Little did I know that it was the graveyard for LMC's that have decided to disappear! See below.

All in all, it turned out to be the best day, total-wise, I've had. The UK find indeed was an inspiration.