archaeological sites secrets

[metaldetector107]

Hi All
can some one tell me the sign of archaeological places?
let say any relation between Fox Hole and ancient site, or the place full of pieces of cly?

kind regrads

[Max]

Hi All
can some one tell me the sign of archaeological places?
let say any relation between Fox Hole and ancient site, or the place full of pieces of cly?

kind regrads

Some are quite obvious and nothing special...

For example ancient sites of your region have all clay and fired ceramics all around, small fragments mostly.

You can also find lot of bricks (some very large) of both fired and non-fired clay.

Same apply to ruins of e.g. walls, or "roads", or even ancient furnaces.

Around fournaces you'll often find fired clay, iron scraps and many other stuff (lead, silver, copper, bronze etc) usually scraps and small sometimes hammered fragments.

In some places you'll find local stuff... something related to life in such places and work made there... I know e.g. of places where you can find tons of old nails, and other metallic things, other you find ancient glass also.

This is about true for all middle-east, north africa, caucasian region, east and west-europe and uk.

In asia it's not uncommon find similar stuff too, e.g. afghan sites are not so different, and you can spot even in china, desertic regions!

Other places, like America or Australia/NewZealand or inner Africa have much less or no sites like that, for obvious reasons.

The european/caucasian/middle-east/north-africa regions have lot of history in common, and shared among centuries lot of metallurgy and construction techniques, that's why you find similar things.

Kind regards,
Max

[metaldetector107]

archaeological sites secrets

Dear Max
do you mean they are not a sign of archaeology?
but i have found 6 silver coins with musketeer advantage 5 of htem go back to abbasid and 1 coin i think is alexander the great,
dear Max also i have found a 40cm cubic white stone with round top in same area. so what all these mean?????
Max is it possible some signals that shows archaeology places

kind regards

[Max]

Dear Max
do you mean they are not a sign of archaeology?
but i have found 6 silver coins with musketeer advantage 5 of htem go back to abbasid and 1 coin i think is alexander the great,
dear Max also i have found a 40cm cubic white stone with round top in same area. so what all these mean?????
Max is it possible some signals that shows archaeology places

kind regards

Hi,
these signs are from ruins of ancient places, towns , houses and the like.

You can be sure of that. Walls expecially: if find walls you sure found something, coins and other stuff for sure you'll dig.

When find e.g. artifacts alone like stones and round top things ... these can be for rituals/sacrifices so can be located in special places, usually not far from towns.

Inside towns they can be too, but if so you'll see other stuff... bricks , ruins of walls, roads etc

As described the first marker of archeo stuff, expecially in the middle east, is ceramic: look everything carefully, pieces of them.

Some are heavy and bad shaped. No good.

Some are thin and coloured. Better.

Some are with geometric stuff and signs. Best.

When you find a place like that, with lot of good ceramics you're in the right place.

Fine ceramic had an higher cost, even at that times, so RICH people bough it ... you understand maybe that if there's something is much more probable you find it where fine stuff is all around lying at your feet.

That's very true for middle east-sites, but not only of course.

Kind regards,
Max

[metaldetector107]

archaeological sites secrets

Dear Max

thanks for so many useful explanation, when i get a chance i send the photo of my finds.
Dear Max i am using minelab musketeer advantage as you know its good for coin shooting but for deeper like jar of coins i think its not capable,
so what i want from you is recommed me for a good VLF or PI detector capable to detect at greater depth, one more thing is when using VLF in the area you will clean it up to its depth capabilities so let say the land is clean from junk up to 40cm, ok the you will be sure there is no unvalueble stuff deeper than this, then you can use even PI detector i hope you understand my english

kind regrads

[Max]

Dear Max

thanks for so many useful explanation, when i get a chance i send the photo of my finds.
Dear Max i am using minelab musketeer advantage as you know its good for coin shooting but for deeper like jar of coins i think its not capable,
so what i want from you is recommed me for a good VLF or PI detector capable to detect at greater depth, one more thing is when using VLF in the area you will clean it up to its depth capabilities so let say the land is clean from junk up to 40cm, ok the you will be sure there is no unvalueble stuff deeper than this, then you can use even PI detector i hope you understand my english

kind regrads

Hi,
yes I understand what you mean, but it's not easy: if you have to clean a large area from e.g. ferrous stuff you get in big troubles if there are many, too much work to do.

I have to say that for coin hunting and general prospecting VLFs offer the best as you can get, they have good ground balance and discrimination, all useful things when on unknown soil, even full of pieces of iron rusty stuff etc.

The problem is that VLFs don't go deep as other stuff and for depth search you have to use large coils and e.g. PI detectors, in some cases that you know you're seraching for iron boxes with good stuff inside or caves/tunnels underground also magnetometers are interesting.

PIs drawbacks are well known, you spend much time digging iron and junk if there is, modern or ancient I mean, and you have a terrible behaviour of sensitive PIs with fired ceramics and things like that (including bricks, hot rock stones etc)

I say, if you know there are such things in your search place you know also cannot use (really) a PI with e.g. small coil and at short distance from soil (e.g. 1'' from soil, like when use VLFs): it's too bad this way in such places.

Much better if you can make or buy a depth PI with large coil (e.g. 1mx1m or more) like delta pulse etc and search with that for depth stuff, like jars etc in the 50cm-1m range.

Of course, if there's something bigger you'll detect this way at higher depth; also you'll cut away most false signals from brick fragments and similar stuff.

So the best advice is use VLFs for short range depth and small stuff, then use a depth PI with large coil for jars and whatever at deep and in presence of much false signals stuff.

Kind regards,
Max

[metaldetector107]

archaeological sites secrets

Dear Max

again thank you so much, if PI responce to bricks and clay fragment! its not useful for me at all because my land is very full of of such things.
lets back to VLF as i told you i have minelab musketeer advantage pro,
could you possibly mention some very better types of VLF MDs
more better in depth and discrimination.
today i dug more than 36 ak47 catridges the sound was like very good target,
please max something more better than Musketeer advantage

best regrads

[Max]

Dear Max

again thank you so much, if PI responce to bricks and clay fragment! its not useful for me at all because my land is very full of of such things.
lets back to VLF as i told you i have minelab musketeer advantage pro,
could you possibly mention some very better types of VLF MDs
more better in depth and discrimination.
today i dug more than 36 ak47 catridges the sound was like very good target,
please max something more better than Musketeer advantage

best regrads

Hi,
as I remember the standard ammunition for AK47, expecially cheap ones and mass produced were made of brass alloy.

The fact you can detect it as good target is due to that, so the MD is working good and you discriminate stuff like iron mostly.

You can try with notch equipped MDs (e.g. TGS non-light version has it) but I do not suggest.

I know it's a big problem maybe for you cause of all that rounds fired around search field (this is a common problem in many countries where things like AK47 are common to see around), but there's no simple solution to that unfortunately.

If the place is worth you'll probably dig all them I think along with good stuff.

Kind regards,
Max