One of the best things that a treasure hunter can have, whether he is an amateur or not, is a metal detector. Take the example of Dave Crisp, a hospital chef, the amateur treasure hunter who caught the attention of CNN.
Crisp a former hospital chef serendipitously found buried coins while searching for metal objects near Frome, Somerset, in the southwestern part of England.
With the help of some archeologists, Crisp was able to unearth a pot full of 766 coins. The coins contained the image of Roman general Marcus Aurelius Carausius, the Roman emperor who ruled independently in Britain from AD 286 to AD 293, the first one to strike coins in the country. This find is the second largest in the UK. Crisp aptly calls himself a “metal detectorist,” referring to his dependence on the right metal detector for his treasure hunts.
A metal detector has different varieties and each one goes for the specific treasure you are hunting and the terrain of the place where you are hunting. There is a metal detector that is meant for a novice treasure hunter and there’s one for the more serious and seasoned treasure finder.
The year 2010 has brought several advances to metal detectors. One that belongs to the list of the top of the line models is the Treasure Hunter XJ9-3050. This unit has the patented multi-frequency deep search technology, which allows you to spot a dollar at 16 inches depth. This lets you identify the target, its depth and also pinpoint it.
One of its best features is the 32 bit Z-TEX Computer Microprocessor which allows for increased depth and discrimination. With this, the way to finding relics, coins, treasures at an ever greater depth is never better. At a depth of 10 inches and more, the detector can tell you if it’s an old wheat penny or the new zinc type of penny you just found.
The Treasure Hunter XJ9-3050 is only one of the many metal detectors that are available for any treasure hunting aficionado or a seasoned one. To find out more about their different features and benefits, you can check each one of them in the metal detector comparison chart found in this page at www.metal-detector-town.com.
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The ancient principles of treasure hunting in the modern art of metal detecting is more than just an expression of a hobby for me. It was 5am on this morning of October 8th, 2009 in the great independent republic of Horry County right here in Myrtle Beach, SC. I was following my Treasure Hunter GPS to the direct location of an old ghost town on the outer boundaries of Myrtle Beach, in a little town called Conway. There was nothing around, nobody, but according to my device this was the coordinates of an old trading post bustling with activity in the early 1800′s. It was a beautiful meadow inside about a square mile of clearing. First thing I did was to meditate and send my prayers out to the god of treasure asking him to grant favor on me for this beautiful day. There had been torrential rains for 2-days that had loosened up the ground and hopefully helped to bring some treasures closer to the surface. I then explored the hunting site a little, and could see evidence of a few root cellars, and the remnants of a few wooden structures. I quickly unsheathed my trusty Treasure Hunter 3050 all purpose detector…. within 5-minutes I quickly discovered some evidence confirming the historical fact of a settlement in this spot. I unearthed an old and very interesting blacksmith hammer. Encouraged by this I resumed my hunting with vigor and excitement. I hunted in the same vicinity for about 1-hour with no luck aside from a few Indian head pennies and interesting buttons…. I decided to check out the apparent hot spots and headed toward the cellar remains. In another hour of grueling hunting, I had nothing to show for my efforts aside from some old railroad iron nails, screens, broken axle heads, roof fragments, and a few coins. I decided to make my way to the treeline, I was walking quickly and making large sweeps with my searchcoil, making each swing as wide as I could keeping the searchcoil face almost parrallel to the ground and trying not to overlap swings. I call this method high efficiency detecting…. This works well with the Treasure Hunter 3050 because the coils motion causes deeper detection because it was in the all motion mode. About 20-yards from the treeline my detector yelped out a high pitch signal and the Digital ID told me I had found something gold. With this strong of a signal, I thought for sure it was a circuitry error and that I must have just found a large rusty iron bucket or something. Iron and gold have a very similar magnetic resonance and many detectors can not distinguish the two metals. Luckily my Treasure Hunter 3050 has dual frequency technology and with the higher frequency can detect even small gold nuggets accurately. I quickly began to investigate my find…. I brushed the leaves and grass off the spot, and began to dig a little. Under about 1″ of dirt, I caught a glimpse of a greenish and bronze object there in my target area, but could not make out what it could possibly be. I dug my shovel into the dirt carefully all around the rather large object and pried it out meticulously. To my great wonder and delight I beheld a small (about 6″high) and beautiful gold statue of what appears to be an Indian or Buddha woman praying. I have tested this with my gold detection kit and confirmed this is an 18 Karat gold statue. Although this is a very strange find for a ghost town, favor was granted for me today indeed!!!![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=cbd81667-fc39-4a3e-8799-855254e87523)
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