"With headphones covering their ears, Tom Welch of Lake Wissota and Ken Briggs of Chippewa Falls would listen until a persistent beep would sound. Honing in on an area, they would look at the screen and see a drawing of a coin.
Then they would drop to their knees, spread out a cloth and take out a knife. The ground they would dig up would be carefully scooped into the cloth while they searched for the coin. When they found it, they would carefully replace the soil and start the process again.
On Thursday afternoon, Welch and Briggs were among six people belonging to three metal detecting clubs carefully combing through the grounds of the Cook-Rutledge Mansion, 505 W. Grand Ave., looking for bits of buried history."
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