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Nov 20, 2005, 10:54 AM
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$20,000.00 CONFEDERATE BUCKLE FOUND IN TENNESSEE
Hello there!!! I found this jewel Thursday, Nov. 17th here in Central Tennessee at a Confederate site. It is undoubtedly my best find ever!!!! I had been told the usual...that the site has been long since "hunted out". I started detecting and immediately began to find dropped William's cleaners, blank buttons, etc. Then I happened upon a hexagonal Whitworth round. I most definitely decided to concentrate my efforts in that one area of the field. After a pocketful of bullets I got a large signal with my White's XL Pro that landed the needle up around 75 on the meter. I had almost decided not to dig it because it was so loud and sounded close to the surface like some big chunks of aluminum I had been coming across in the area. But, this was a Civil War site and I knew that belt plates, especially, produced a large signal. So, I dug up a clod of soil and there it was!!! It came up with the hooks showing and I kinda stood there for a moment until it dawned on me that I was looking at a belt buckle. I turned it over and saw the CS surrounded by stars and the rest is a blur. I cannot tell you the elation I felt and I think that I walked in circles around the hole for several minutes making phone calls with my cellular before actually picking the relic up! It is a day that I will never forget. The buckle is valued in excess of $20,000.00!!!!
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Nov 20, 2005, 02:57 PM
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Re: $20,000.00 CONFEDERATE BUCKLE FOUND IN TENNESSEE
That is really a great looking plate all the hooks in place not beat up really nice find my freind and in the other post to you about the north winng did they I guess the winng side are cone heads.well just some of them are.
muddyknees
Kill them all let god sort them out
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Nov 20, 2005, 09:32 PM
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Re: $20,000.00 CONFEDERATE BUCKLE FOUND IN TENNESSEE
 Nice find. It will be very hard to ever top that.
Glen
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Nov 21, 2005, 12:50 AM
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Re: $20,000.00 CONFEDERATE BUCKLE FOUND IN TENNESSEE
Wow! I sure would like to dig one of those.  Congrats.
P.S. Don't let anyone spoil your victory.
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. Acts 13:41
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Nov 23, 2005, 10:01 AM
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Re: $20,000.00 CONFEDERATE BUCKLE FOUND IN TENNESSEE
Very cool! Are you planning on seling it or keeping it?
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Nov 23, 2005, 10:16 AM
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Re: $20,000.00 CONFEDERATE BUCKLE FOUND IN TENNESSEE
Nice find!
I hate to say, but you may look very carfefully around that buckle for something unusual that doesn't beep. A buckle didn't just fall out of a pack, but more than likely the guy wearing that buckle gave his life for the cause, and is still there waiting our respect.
As far as who won, they all paid a heavy , heavy price, and all of 'US' are the winners!
Hey! Who invited the hockey player?
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Nov 29, 2005, 04:10 AM
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Re: $20,000.00 CONFEDERATE BUCKLE FOUND IN TENNESSEE
How is it worth 20k? I'm not doubting that it is, I'm just wondering what is it that makes it so special?
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