We had a lite rain most of the day but it stopped just before I got off work.  So I geared up and headed to a plowed field I had permission for, have never detected here and time is short as I will be moving soon.  About 10 steps into the field I thought, what were you thinking?  The mud was as sticky as can be but I was committed with boots already covered in mud.  Second target found was a thimble, third target dug was an older encrusted coin and the mud problem dwindled away.  The owner's daughter and husband came by and we had a chat for about 10 minutes and I showed them the thimble and coin, then she said she owned the field, I had no idea she owned the field as I had received permission from her father.  She said go ahead and detect, no problem and said do not detect the light brown area as that is the dirt from their basement of their new home they built, I had already spent 10 minutes on it and it was dead, not even iron nails were there but the dark brown areas had many signals, mostly iron nails.  She also told me I should go across the street to where the original town was, the present town is around 1200 years old.  I asked if they owned any fields there and she said a few, any plowed and not planted?  She asked her husband and he said there is one plowed field I could hunt and the rest had winter wheat growing, will try it this week mud or shine.  I drove by that field as I was leaving and could see a lot of pottery shards, could be interesting.  I hunted for about 1.5 hours total this evening on the field below, the name of the town in the background literally translates to "Home of Money".  I also modified my XT70 stand today with a heat gun, bent the stand fins out about 1/2"-3/4" on each side.  After correcting the shaft orientation and applying the mod, I had no problems with the XT70 falling over even on some semi rough terrain and the balance of the machine did not change that I could tell.

Here's the finds.  An older thimble, 50. caliber round, musket ball, two clay marbles, A very old open ended thimble, a button, a 10 Pfennig coin from around 1970s, an encrusted copper coin that looks like an 1819 and what I thought was a silver hammered coin, it is an aluminum cap of sort.  The open ended thimble is made of bronze with crude dimples and is very thick, also has a thick crusty patina.  I poked some fun at a guy today who took a picture of Roman thimbles in a museum (Strato), they look like they may have come from the 17 century and we all thought that they are not Roman, this thimble looks older than those.  I will spend the remainder of my detecting time around here which is just a few weeks.  HH, Mike