There is only one detector better than Deus - it is Deus with larger coil!

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Nothing like that around me. My area has about 150 years of post stone-age activity. You are fortunate in that regard.

Yes, but not just me. The entire Balkans is too rich in archaeology.
Between the "old Roman empire" and the "new Roman empire", Rome - Constantinople (Istanbul).
It is reliably known that 17 great Roman emperors were born on the territory of today's Serbia.
And some archaeologists and historians mention figures of 23.
Although there is direct evidence only for 17.
The most famous is certainly Constantine, born 60 km away from my place.
Yes, in that regard we are somewhat "privileged" here.
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But USA territory is too big and I'm sure it's full of still undiscovered archeological sites.
Here's an example:
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the...rica-1.6733497

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If I have learned anything in this hobby, from 1987 to today; it is that there is not even 1 square meter on the planet that has no remnants of human activity at any time throughout history.
And when it seems to you that in some place it is impossible that a person has ever passed by and left/lost something; be convinced that it is possible and that it is found in incredible places beyond all (today's) logic.
Throughout my search "career", such cases always refuted me in the belief that "there is no way that anything can be found in such and such a place".
This is not just a story, I mean this very seriously. You need to be very thorough, slow and detailed when searching.
Detectors are very far from any kind of perfection. And it's easier to miss a good find than to find one.
It is enough for the coil to move a few cm to the left or right of the finding and you miss.
Proof of this is the fact that I have been visiting the same fields for over 30 years, over and over again, and there is always something to be found.
And on almost the same paths that I have passed a hundred times.
It's as if new findings "sprout" and "grow" in places where they weren't before.
And in fact it is a trick of the mind, bad memory and the inability to pass the coil literally over every square centimeter.
It's the same walking path, but it's not the same path that the coil takes. Something always changes, an angle, a position, a few cm to the left, to the right...
In the artificial conditions when the detector is tested, everything looks so easy and good, almost perfect.
But in real locations, in real conditions; everything is so different and totally unpredictable.
Of course, with the passage of years, the quantity of finds also decreases drastically.
It is increasingly difficult to find something in previously visited localities. Many searchers have passed there, many detectors. Many years.
But you can never say that a locality is finally explored and empty.
For the last few years, I have been using the "trick" of not visiting places where it is already known that something has been found there.
I go to "nonsense" places, in search of "accidental" finds.
And then it proves to me what was said before that there is no surface on the planet without traces of human existence, activity or any residue.
The difference between "nonsense" places and localities is only in the quantity of findings.
There used to be that difference in favor of locality in the past... today it's in favor of "nonsense" places.

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A job very well done!
I had a dozen pinpointers, but none of them were seriously usable until this one.
If I hadn't had the pinpointer with me yesterday, that coin would have been damaged during the excavation.
There are so far only two pointers that have impressed me; XP MI6 and F-Pulse.
It's hard to decide which one is better. And it's irrelevant.