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Prospecting & Detecting

Detecting Old Pocket Diggings

February 2013 by Ray Mills

Looking around, I could tell that this was an old hand-digging. As I walked around the perimeter of the digging I could see shovel and pick marks scratched on the clean, hard clay and bedrock.

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