Blew $200 on a ground-penetrating radar rental for a local field in Ohio and found nothing but rusty fence wire

Spent a whole Saturday dragging that thing through 3 acres of what I thought was an unmarked pioneer cemetery based on old maps from 1847, and the only blip I got was from somebody's buried trash pile from the 1960s - has anyone else had a total dud with subsurface surveys?

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shane_williams414h ago

Same thing happened to me with a metal detector in my grandpa's backyard. Found a 1950s hubcap and enough bottle caps to fill a bucket, but not a single coin older than 1982. Seems like all the old maps and stories just make you think something's buried there when really it's just a bunch of junk that got left behind.

grace_perry4414h ago

Yeah, that's the funny thing about old stories. They get passed down so many times that a rusted hubcap turns into buried treasure in someone's head. I think most of us are just digging up someone else's trash.