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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3107291, member: 10461"]As a former detectorist, I used to muse on things like this a lot. Apparently the thing about leaves is that their decomposition produces acidic soil? I think I read somewhere that this is worse with coniferous forests than deciduous ones?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hard for me to say from firsthand experience, though. I've found and <i>seen</i> found some pretty <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2F17981cAUdetails-obvbefore.jpg&hash=d046254f959b281d71a4266dc41a7d93" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2F17981cAUdetails-obvbefore.jpg&hash=d046254f959b281d71a4266dc41a7d93">pristine</a> old coins from forest floors, and heavily corroded ones from treeless places, including some where chemical fertilizers probably weren't an issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think soil conditions vary so widely that it's like "microclimates". I've known the soil on one side of a half-acre lot to be harsh and corrosive while some really well preserved coins have come up from the other half of the same relatively small lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's like that with ground depth, too. I've found coins and buttons from the 1820s at grassroots level (some of the buttons with original <i>thread</i> in them!), and modern Memorial cents ten inches down. You never can tell. My <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/">one Roman coin find</a> was on the surface. (Of course it wasn't dropped by a Roman, since it was found on a colonial site in Georgia, USA.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3107291, member: 10461"]As a former detectorist, I used to muse on things like this a lot. Apparently the thing about leaves is that their decomposition produces acidic soil? I think I read somewhere that this is worse with coniferous forests than deciduous ones? Hard for me to say from firsthand experience, though. I've found and [I]seen[/I] found some pretty [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2F17981cAUdetails-obvbefore.jpg&hash=d046254f959b281d71a4266dc41a7d93']pristine[/URL] old coins from forest floors, and heavily corroded ones from treeless places, including some where chemical fertilizers probably weren't an issue. I think soil conditions vary so widely that it's like "microclimates". I've known the soil on one side of a half-acre lot to be harsh and corrosive while some really well preserved coins have come up from the other half of the same relatively small lot. It's like that with ground depth, too. I've found coins and buttons from the 1820s at grassroots level (some of the buttons with original [I]thread[/I] in them!), and modern Memorial cents ten inches down. You never can tell. My [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/']one Roman coin find[/URL] was on the surface. (Of course it wasn't dropped by a Roman, since it was found on a colonial site in Georgia, USA.)[/QUOTE]
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