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Greetings to all diggers! It looks like that’s it, the 2014 season is over:(. It’s snowing, it’s freezing outside. What does that mean? That’s right, it’s time for theory for beginners. And this article is especially for those who are going to buy a device or have just bought it. I and The group was asked a lot of questions about the choice of places to dig, where at least something was found. Well, let's get started.

As you know, if you point your finger at the sky and go to the first field you come across, you are unlikely to be satisfied with the process and the result of the search. Either you won’t find anything, or you will find spare parts for the tractor :) So if you want to find something, it’s worth the effort :)

If so, there is a video:

You can find places to cop both by communicating with people in person and using a computer and the Internet. Almost any old-timer in the village will tell you about his village or surrounding area. He will describe in detail what was where, who lived and where the treasure was buried :). It is worth establishing contact with local residents.

The Internet will tell you many places to search, you just need to find them correctly. First you need to acquire a set of programs. The most necessary and convenient in terms of viewing the area from satellite images is SAS Planet. She can save pictures for later use in a navigator or smartphone directly on the cop. This program is convenient because you can view pictures from different companies. If your device is equipped with a GPS module, it will also show your location in this photo.

This photo shows an abandoned village, stone houses are visible, and the outlines of vegetable gardens are visible. Seeing this picture, you immediately imagine how and where you will dig :)

You can also download Google Earth, but I don’t use it :). Google did not deign to take clear pictures of our area :(. The program has similar functionality.

The simplest method is to look for places using satellite images. All the villages, farmsteads, tracts are visible on them, you can see where the houses stood. Especially if the pictures are high quality. You can consider all the places and plan how you will conduct your search.

Plowed-up villages and other interesting places in the image are very difficult to find and for this you need to use another map to find out what was there.

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Another way is to directly search on maps. There are many free maps on the Internet, both linked and not. There are many maps on the website etomesto.ru, where there are a lot of different linked maps, which can be immediately superimposed on a modern map on this page. This site is primarily recommended for beginners as it is the easiest.

The world map is divided into squares. And to navigate the map correctly, you need to know your square. Without it, it will be difficult for you to find the map you need, especially the topographic map of the General Staff. For example, my square is O-39. There is a convenient website for determining the square. Here is his address. Having entered it, just click on the desired place and a window will immediately appear where you will be given a square for different scales.

Once we have identified the square, we can already look for the card you need. There are many of them. The most common is the General Staff map. This is a regular topographic map with a detailed scale. It ranges from 1 km to 250 m in 1 cm. These maps can also be used in satellite navigation, but for this they need to be linked.

The most interesting, in my opinion, is the PGM-General Land Survey Plan. This is an old map, dating from the late 18th century, but very detailed. Basically it's a mile per inch. If we convert to the metric system, we get, if my memory serves me correctly, 420 meters in a centimeter. But this map is not freely available for all provinces and districts, but it can be purchased. Judging by the reviews, it's worth it.

There are also Strelbitsky maps and Schubert maps. But I don't use them :).

We need to look for abandoned villages on maps. The vegetable gardens are especially interesting. The older, the better:). There should also be places near the village where people walked on holidays. Next we look for fairs, taverns, inns, postal stations, estates, old roads and highways, especially their intersections. These places on the maps have their own symbols. They usually come with the card. Here's an example:

Working with cards is also very interesting. The result of the cop depends on your choice. This way you also explore your native land :).

I also advise you subscribe to the channel “Old Vyatka”, where you will find a lot of videos about digging, metal detectors, navigation, cartography and coin care:

Well, that seems to be it. If anything new appears, I will definitely write. Bye everyone.

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Real diggers, as a rule, never act on the “dig until lunch” principle; every professional search engine always has accurate information or a tip that allows you not to waste time and dig almost certainly. Many professional diggers already have a peculiar sense of what information is true and what is better to double-check.

The main sources of information are ancient maps, stories, book data and, in some cases, legends. Maps can be obtained on the Internet - purchased or downloaded for free. You can try to photograph them in local history museums. In general, it is now not a problem to arm yourself with a good 19th century map.

I prefer to look for the necessary information among the stories of old-timers in the villages. Of course, half of these “stories” are almost fiction, but there is also real data from the history of a family. I also found my almost first treasure thanks to this story. The grandmother of one of my friends told me where her grandfather hid his property during dispossession. Moreover, the location was indicated as accurately as possible. The treasure was really there - silver from the 20s and some banknotes from that time. But such cases are rare. In addition, there are very few people left who saw the civil war or lived before.

A good source of information for the digger are books by local historians. They often describe in detail the history of a small territory - the participation of villages in riots under the Tsar, battles in the Civil War, etc. One day I found out where the battle between the White Czechs and the Red Army took place from just such a book. After digging for a couple of days in the indicated place, I found a lot of shell casings, several bayonets, and a rifle mechanism. I enjoy reading books on local history, especially those that contain memories of people from the Civil War.

Diggers plan their summer trips in winter, so that in the summer they do not waste time, but have time to win their jackpot of wealth. The correct choice of a good place to dig is one of the conditions that you will find a treasure or at least a few coins. It is best to find out about a potential treasure site (from books or from people), and then compare it with a map of that time. If everything comes together, we can already hope for something.

Such popular places as taverns, road intersections, mills, merchants' houses, and everything like that that is indicated on the maps, due to the abundance of diggers, can be safely crossed out from the planned places. There’s definitely nothing for me and my Asya to do there. I prefer to go somewhere in the outback, where no digger has ever set foot, find out about local places, check it with a map, talk to the ladies, and then draw conclusions about where to dig, but you have to dig. As they say: “I have one burial ground.”

Often on many treasure hunting forums, novice searchers ask the same question: looking for places to dig. How to find a place to search and where to go with the device so that the desire for this hobby does not disappear, and so that the finds ring in the bag?

The answers are simply amazing in their simplicity and knowledge of the matter, especially when you consider (we admit to ourselves that we don’t always look for a new place with the help of special programs and maps) that many experienced treasure hunters have never even held a tablet and a navigator with installed software in their hands.

But to advise is sacred. So novice search engines struggle, spending a lot of time comparing maps (which, in general, is not so bad), loading them into navigators, and so on. But in practice everything is not so complicated; in practice, as experience shows, everything is much simpler!

For example, many qualifying spots for cops were found completely by accident. So, you can drive past a field that is located next to the road a thousand times. You can assume that the road will be just rubbish, that someone has already been here before you, that there is nothing remarkable on the maps in this area and there was nothing remarkable.

Meanwhile, perhaps a hundred or two years ago, a village path passed through this field, carts stopped, and there were festivities. And having decided to try to search in such an area, you are suddenly surprised that there is so much swag that you never dreamed of it.

Old roads near villages: always pay attention to them

In this article, I will offer you a couple of tips on how to find a place to search with a metal detector, without delving into the intricacies of studying maps. Believe me, it’s real, no less effective, and it’s just interesting when a place chosen at random suddenly turns out to be promising, where you can go for more than one season.

1. Turn on your computer at home and view the area from satellite (fortunately, there are a lot of these sites)

Start by viewing the area on your computer

2. Determine several villages that are closest to you (which are more convenient to get to, those areas where you would like to wander with a metal detector)

Choose villages located close to you

3. Around these villages, draw a circle with a diameter of about 5-10 kilometers (this will include fields and forest areas with many interesting paths, some of which are still in use today)

Mark a circle with a diameter of 5 - 10 km.

4. If you have a tourist navigator, you can enter the coordinates of interesting places into it

Use a tourist GPS navigator in your work

5. Exit to the place. This point is not so simple. We recommend that you first simply go to the site for reconnaissance, without a metal detector. It is possible to organize PVD ( weekend hike), travel by car, bike, and so on. The main goal is to visit an interesting area, look around, and decide on a search location.

Start exploring an unfamiliar place without a metal detector

6. If you wish, you can see if the village you chose was on old maps.

7. If you know how to communicate and are an expert on human souls, it is quite possible not to follow all the above tips at all, but simply talk with the local population, who sometimes in a private conversation will reveal a secret place where there is something. Of course, you can’t believe these stories 100%, but you can listen, because such legends don’t just arise out of nowhere.

Communication with the local population - preliminary reconnaissance of the treasure hunter

An example of choosing a search location

Let's just say that around any village in the vicinity, at least 1-2 kilometers, people constantly walked. And if you went, that means there will be finds. Look: let’s say there were 30 people living in a village; for example, 5 people constantly walked along one of the paths.

Let one of these five lose 2 coins every year. We multiply by 100 and we get that a conditional person (it is clear that this means that it is not just someone walking through the forests for 100 years and losing coins, but conditionally one person-unit) will leave on the trail in some hundred years almost... (think about it) 200 coins!

And if we add here horses, peasants who worked in the fields, mushroom pickers, and so on, then it becomes clear that any village with its surroundings is a completely normal source of losses for a person with a metal detector.

Another question is that it is not so easy to find exactly the right path, you may have to go through more than one field, but the mere understanding that there are definitely finds already inspires hope and gives strength.

Later, when you understand exactly how to look for places, what to look for when searching for a place, how to use special programs and how to compare maps in more detail and correctly, perhaps you will stop your search only at the disappeared villages.

But while this knowledge is not there, and in order not to waste time, explore the surroundings of places familiar to you, do not be afraid that this is an empty field, that no events took place here. loves to give surprises!

And it has already been verified 1000 times that you can travel 200-300 kilometers in search of the best place to dig and return with empty pockets, or you can walk or bike 2-5 kilometers from a populated area and find so much that happiness knows no bounds .

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While different people are trying to see who has the best and longest, doing different tests, real diggers are raising finds. The same thing happened on one of our trips. Several friends called and wrote to me in advance; they all had different experiences as cops, but they wanted to dig into the war in 1944. The guys wanted to go to the battlefield, where once upon a time there was no crowd of people and equipment, but now it’s quiet and empty, places far from civilization and where ordinary people don’t go, are afraid or simply have nothing to do there, they can pick mushrooms and in a calmer and safer environment.

After thinking a little, I began to look for a place. Where should we take them? I didn’t want to go to my old and familiar places, I needed something new to be able to visit with interest, so I opened the 1948 map to look at the places with the concentration of dugouts and dugouts indicated on it. I found one interesting high-rise, 32.7, where there were positions of German troops, which means there should have been a battle for this high-rise, even if it was a small one, but a battle. Then ingenuity came into play - it was necessary to retrieve the combat log of the division that fought in that sector. The “Memory of the People” website will help us with this. We write a part in the search, select a time period and read, or better yet, look for magazines with maps and diagrams.

Yes, these are not the old fields on Schubert’s map; everything here is more serious and interesting! Who said that it is easiest to start a war? Alas, no. What do we see on the map? The height is 32.7, and in front of it is the German defense line. It is clear that Soviet troops attacked German positions, which means we must look for a continuation!

And it was found:

It turns out that in three days the Soviet troops were able to advance on the right flank, even there an interesting “Assault Battalion Group” was noted. It’s already more interesting, our attack aircraft could well mix up the Germans in those places, which means we need to go there and see in person what is there. The place has been localized, all reference points to the map have been established.

Wake up at 4:35 am. It’s early, yes, but we need to pack two cars of diggers and drive almost 250 km one way. You can also drink coffee at a gas station along the way.

One of the guys suggested taking a photo together upon arrival. We did it. 🙂 Whoever identifies all the metal detectors will have a pie off the shelf. NB! There are no Deus here, which is surprising, but the CTX3030 remains behind the scenes.

We go deeper into the forest. The area is swampy and you walk straight on moss that moves. Moss grew right across the swamp, and if you step slightly away from the roots of the tree, you can fall knee-deep into the water. Here and there there are craters completely covered with water.

I’m looking for some sign that there were battles on this or that patch; this sign is large pieces of iron, for example, helmets, fragments of helmets, various pieces of iron, parts, large fragments. And then the sign appears:

An ordinary fragment of a Soviet helmet on a tree. Most likely it was installed by our fellow digger. A simple sign is that with such fragments I often mark for myself the locations of positions and especially clusters of finds.

And so it happened. All kinds of high-tech equipment came out, mostly Soviet grenades. There were many of them.

Mainly F1 (Limonka) and RG-42 grenades. RG-42 without shirts, which is a pity, a shirt is a good souvenir, you can make a stand for pencils.

Naturally, shell casings, cartridges, fragments of pots, flasks and other items of soldier’s belongings came out. It could not do without large “cucumbers” - 105-mm, 122-mm and even 152-mm shells. If this one blows, it will be very bad.

For the first time I discovered an unexploded German rifle grenade, which was fired from a special attachment mounted on a Mauser 98K carbine.

It’s better not to take such things for yourself, but to call the relevant authorities and undermine them. Or leave it in place, but under no circumstances disassemble it and try to somehow clear it yourself. This is fraught.

We could not do without mortar shells of various calibers. Some were lying right on the road! Truly dangerous places! But since there is ammunition and equipment, then there must also be weapons with fragments. And so it happened, a Mosin rifle emerged from the moss, or rather only what was left of it.

The condition is ruined and deplorable, but you can clean it up a little, buy the missing parts and make an MMG, let it hang for show. A real rifle, with history, completely destroyed, but still.

Basically, the entire trip was to collect riding iron. There is nothing to dig around - there are swamps everywhere, war on horseback is everywhere. That's why the iron comes from the top.

But a box magazine from PPSh and PPS was found, along with cartridges. I picked up my new Nokta Impact metal detector. All the hardware is in ruined condition, you can only remove it and throw it away.

All that remains of a folding German shovel. A sad sight.

Metal, metal, solid metal everywhere. In such places you need to walk with a probe, any metal detector beeps at different metals every second, and this is of little use.

Bipod from a German MG-42 machine gun. It’s quite in good condition, it can be cleaned by electrolysis, and you’ll be left with a nice souvenir!

And this is all that remains of the belt of Soviet cartridges for the Maxim machine gun. The tape was rag, twisted and over the years the fabric rotted, and the cartridges oxidized and rusted together. In the first photo you can see the remaining pack of cartridges for Mosinka, the paper has long since rotted, and the cartridges themselves were in the pack and are still lying in the ground.

By that time, the cop's time was already coming to an end; dinner and the way home lay ahead. Quite an interesting way out, although no shocking or shocking finds were found, but the time was well spent, we touched history, went to the places where once back in 1944 our soldiers liberated their native land, fighting in terrible conditions, in complete swamps. Remember this when you remember them once a year, on May 9th.

P.S. Not a single Soviet soldier was found, nor were German citizens found.

And we are collecting all the cops on the war, come in, there is a lot of interesting information about our unusual area of ​​​​interest!

What is the cornerstone in searching with a metal detector on which the quantity and quality of finds depends? In my subjective opinion, a large number of finds, such things as the high cost of a metal detector, a sharpened shovel, newfangled equipment will not give a one hundred percent guarantee of a normal number of finds. What then influences, the answer is simple - the right choice of place for the cop. Search engines have long realized that going to all known places is not a particularly promising activity, so many are racking their brains in search of a source of data for new search places, some sit in libraries, others try to find something in archives, others communicate with old-timers. But do not forget about the most accessible, simple and frequently updated resource in which you can highlight new places for searches - satellite images.

The most common programs for viewing satellite images are Google Earth and SAS.Planet. These are free programs that allow you to view satellite images in fairly good quality. How Google Earth differs from SAS.Planet, Google Earth has the ability to view the history of images, SAS.Planet has the ability to view satellite maps from different sources.

How can satellite imagery help in finding places? The point is that if the circumstances are successful, you can see traces of human activity or even remains of foundations in the picture. They have a lighter grayish color. Let me give you a couple of examples of such places.

A snapshot of a Tatar settlement from the 16th to 18th centuries.

A photo of a hut from the late 19th century.

A photograph of huts from the second half of the 19th century to the left of the modern village.