MY TOTAL 3 RINGERS ,105 FROM THE SAME SPOT

[Ifoundit69]

I had found a location which i beleive to be a CW camp in culpeper,Va and total for the year of 2008 is 105 three ringers from this place , and in all honesty I beleive there is more ...but havent been back over there this year ,but plan on it soon ..

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Diving for Pleasure and Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[sneaky6]

Good job!! I'll be in Culpeper next weekend!! All I want is one 3-ringer!!! =) Hope to find it!!

Keep up the good work!!

Sneaky6

 

[mlayers]

Nice collection of 3 ringers. I would like to find some of those. But I have not heard of anyplace around here to CW detect. I am in the Northwest corner of OH...Matt

 

[johnreb1980]

Nice pile of lead, way to go.

 

[allen]

that is a sweet collection of c. w bullets !

 

[jpitt1970]

Nice collection of 3 ringers. I would like to find some of those. But I have not heard of anyplace around here to CW detect. I am in the Northwest corner of OH...Matt

Try Johnsons Island....been there dug that & got a few bullets...hard to get to because of the houses...the old cw prison is there...National Geographic did a dig there years ago & they missed alot of stuff

 

[silvercop]

wow

 

[Monty]

That is one heck of a lot of drops! They must have set up a bullet making site there and had to go off and leave it unexpectedly. Any idea of a battle near there? Monty

 

[jpitt1970]

The very 1st day I got my metal detector, Christmas day 1985, I found 120 3 ringers & a sword scabbard hilt & tip & 4 percussion caps all in my parent's front yard......My neighbor's house was used during both battles of Bull Run as a field hospital & shown on all of the old battle maps of the area....it also shows where the New York troops were stationed in our yard for 72 hrs during a rain storm...over the years we have dug several hundred bullets & buttons in one small area...Anytime I make the trip up, I can go md & find more too.Ground action brings the deeper ones up year after year.

 

[Monty]

That explains a lot. A 72 hour lay over isn't much time to put things in order when a battle is brewing. You are very lucky to have such a site. Many of us woud give our left...... uh...,leg to have a site like that. Thanks for sharing. Monty

 

[spartacus53]

Those are some great finds and there are probably a ton more of those 3 ringers there. Remember that Culpeper changed hands either 26, or 27 times during the CW, so it saw plenty of action.

 

[floodcitykid]

Nice job, Culpepper is full of campsites from both sides, when I lived in the area Culpepper was my favorite location to dig.

3 ringers are union, check the base for a 'star', means they were made from the old star armoury in Wash DC, supplied army of the Potomac.

floodcity kid