Newbie! Help!!

I found an area that had lots of stuff. It was an apartment complex with very steep parking areas. It was on the end of a street and all of the rain water would wash anything anyone dropped, out of the lot, down the street and into a small drainage ditch that that ran into a large creek. The drainage ditch was about 500 yard long and had lots of rocks for things to catch on. I found 100s of coins, 2 rings and 4 or 5 hundred pounds of junk.

School playgrounds have lots of lost coins near the surface. The older the school, the better the chance of finding older coins and items, but digging may be a problem.

Keep in mind the property you're searching is someone's. They may not like the fact that you're there. If you can find the person that owns it, ask first. If it's a park, make sure it's allowed to surface search. NEVER dig if you don't have permission and if you do, make sure you put the dirt back in the hole.

I live in Texas and will find an old farm house that's falling down and search around there. If the place has a driveway or garage/barn, look there. Anywhere people would be taking things out of their pockets.

I have a White's Eagle Spectrum that has programs built in to ignore junk and it tells me the denomination of coins and the depth. It's correct most of the time. It also tells me "bottle cap" "trash" "foil" things like that. The biggest thing I ever found was a car. It was buried in sand, nose up in a dry creek. I dug down about 6" and found the headlights. I didn't dig any further so I don't know if anyone was still in it.

That's my whole issue, I don't want to be on someone's land with out their permission.

lots of places to hunt,old home foundations,sites of old schools and churches,playgrounds and athletic fields,the options are infinite