Bounty Hunter Time Ranger Manuel du propriétaire télécharger pdf (Page 31)

▲ Relic hunting

"Relic hunting" is searching for historical artifacts. The most

common desired objects are battlefield relics such as bullets and

weapons, coins, jewelry, harness hardware, metal buttons, trade

tokens, metal toys, household items, and tools used by workmen

and tradespeople. The most common unwanted metal is iron (nails,

fence wire, rusted cans, etc.), but some iron and steel objects may

also be valuable. If you're on a site where you may encounter

unexploded ordinance, use caution.

Most relic hunting locations are in fields, forested areas and vacant

lots where digging holes won't damage turfgrass, so having a

detector with good depth sensitivity is important. Some places are

so littered with iron that it's necessary to discriminate out iron in

order to be able to search, even though you will miss some

potentially valuable artifacts that way.

Before you go relic hunting, obtain permission from the property

owner. If you intend to hunt on public land, check first with the

administrator to make sure it's not illegal. Certain kinds of sites on

both public and private land are protected by law from relic hunting.

If there is a metal detecting club in your area, some of the members

will probably know what the laws are in that area and which sites

are and aren't off limits.

Relic hunting is most rewarding if you have an avid interest in

history. In many cases, the value of a relic is not the object itself,

but the story it's a part of-- what historians call "context" and

archeologists call "provenance". A few pieces of rusty metal that tell

a story of life in a specific place or even of a specific family or person

hundreds of years ago, can capture our imagination and help to give

context to our own lives now. But if those pieces of metal are mixed

in with other similar stuff and their context lost, they become trash.

So take the trouble to understand the site you're searching and

keep track of where you found things.

The SMART TRAC and Ground Monitor features of the Time

Ranger™ can be used to map the soils on a site. (See page 20 and

27 for details). In this way you may be able to determine which

areas have been dug, backfilled, or subjected to fire. This

information in turn helps to reveal the history of the site.

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