>>60784221
Metal detecting is generally horrifically boring. I do it basically as meditation while listening to podcasts or audiobooks
>slowly waddle around for hours
>Find nothing but bottle caps and pennies
A place like valley forge though you can wander around with the fantasy of finding revolutionary war stuff like musket balls, shoe/belt buckles, buttons, pins, etc.
That said, even that stuff isn’t especially valuable or interesting and it will be tarnished and ugly. Metal detecting is a very stupid hobby that I love.