Sandta said:
Gday wolfau, what would you expect to find around the clothes line area? Why there in particular? You seem very specific about that spot...
Darren
Dropped coins and tokens from clothes being washed.
Pants get hung to dry with some wind as pants dry
they get lighter Start to flap in the wind and then as
soon as the water dries Between coin and pants pocket
Cloth the coin or token drops to the ground.
This depends as well how pants were hung but as they
Get taken off the coins or tokens still drop.
It depends on the area and the year. You may find coins
Only. If the homestead has been around since 1860 expect
To find some cool tokens.
The other thing which i forgot to mention is imagine where
The horse and cart would stop for passengers to hop off.
This area yields same results including brooches but you
need to look at the ground closely and you may see tracks
where its been compacted with horse cart weight nothing
grows there.
Will post some of my finds soon.
So instead of attacking an area with a detector you need
To investigate by asking locals questions or by trying to
Find archived photos or going to the site and tackling it
From a csi perspective. Stand back and analyse how the
House was approached by horse and cart where the drive
Way could be and where the clothes line was and so on.