In the summer of this year, I very well and repeatedly, one might even say, regularly went out to dig in one field that was remarkable in terms of finds. The point is that three years ago I checked this field several times, and with full confidence I came to the conclusion that this field is empty and there is nothing to do on it. Then, like this year, I repeatedly had to understand how much and how stupidly I was mistaken then. After such a result on that “unpromising” field, I realized that I needed to again, again and again go around and reconnoiter all the fields that I had previously recognized as empty. That's what I'm doing now.
However, there is one large field near our village, which I recognized as almost the best in the entire district four years ago. It was on this field that I found my first Katya nickel, my first imperial silver and my first silver cross. There were many good and noteworthy finds. But, the main thing is that it was in this field that I acquired my experience in instrumental search. And, behold, this field was plowed again before winter. We haven’t had any rain for almost two months, which is why deep plowing on sandy loam soils turns out to be almost level, convenient for instrumental search.
An open fragment of an encolpion, the valve of the upper part. What a handsome man he was. It's a pity. Although, to hope to find a whole encolpion in an arable field, well, it either has to be level 99 luck, or a one in a million chance. However…
To make it clear, this field is located along the edge of the asphalt road to the city. Therefore, as soon as the tractors start plowing here, more than a dozen diggers appear in one day off. And I myself have walked this field up and down more than a hundred times. So, I’m the only one who knows what and where there is. There are scales in that area. On that hillock over there there were a dozen Catherine coins at once. In that direction, one day I dug three dimes. And over there, the comrade, as it happens, found a single-yard from the Peter the Great period. In an hour, in a small area, he dug up fifteen copper coins and a dozen flakes.
Scales are not a common find in this field. But there is only one hope for silver. The copper here is in a very sad state.
It’s no longer interesting to just walk on this field; you need to set some goals to get motivated. So the idea came to me to check whether during this time there were fewer qualifying finds in that field? After all, there is something to compare with. Here, in one archive folder on my computer, I found photos from a cop from past years. At that time I had not yet written for this blog, and therefore the photographs were not of very good quality. I made them at the request of friends “Well, show me what you dug up today???” So I took pictures, sent them and commented. And now these photos turn out to be a kind of statistical information.
For the sake of clarity of statistics, I’ll say right away that all the photos are exactly the best results for the same period of digging. Experienced diggers know that no one can cancel the chance of a mine, and it happens that in one and the same field one can dig up a dozen coins in one day. And the next day there is garbage and a couple of poops. I dig on average 4 hours per trip. So I’m publishing a photo with the weather, and you can decide for yourself whether there are fewer coins on that same field in the last 4 years or not?
2017 I apologize to the readers for the quality of the photo. but then I had such a phone, with, to put it mildly. not quite a powerful camera)
2017, still the same quality. Please do not scold too much in the comments. And if you see solid oil on the coins, then yes, this is solid oil. I then carried out practical experiments on preserving coins. The experience is not very good, the smell of solid oil does not wash off for a long time)))
It’s 2018, the phone is different, but I haven’t learned how to take photographs yet)))
2018
It’s 2019, here’s a swag with a red rag already familiar to our readers.
2020 I test the device for scales, the overall result, as you can see, has not changed