That $250 magnetometer rental paid off huge on a field survey in Georgia

I was digging on a small site in northern Georgia last spring and kept coming up empty after two weeks. Finally broke down and rented a magnetometer for $250 for three days. Ran it over a field where I felt sure there should be something, and it lit up like a Christmas tree with a buried anomaly. Dug down three feet and found a cluster of late 1800s farm tools and a rusted plow blade. Getting that ground penetrating view saved me from wasting another month of guessing where to dig. Has anyone else rented gear that ended up changing their whole excavation plan?

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matthewh2817d ago

Read a case study once where a guy in Virginia found a whole foundation that way. That's a solid return on $250.

the_wesley17d ago

Hold up, @matthewh28 "solid return" is an understatement lol a whole foundation? That is nuts. I mean I thought finding old farm tools was wild but a foundation is a whole different level of a find.