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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