MY BEST FIND EVER!!! LONGGG

[relichog]

4 YEARS AGO I OBTAINED PERMISSION TO METAL DETECT MY FAMILIES ORIGINAL HOMEPLACE. MY FAMILY WAS THE ONLY FAMILY TO LIVE IN THE LOG CABIN AND IT WAS BUILT BY MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER. MY GRANDAD AND HIS BROTHERS WERE THE LAST TO LIVE THERE. IT SAT ABANDONED AFTER 1943 WHEN MY GRANDAD LEFT FOR THE ARMY AND HIS FATHER PASSED AWAY. I STARTED OFF BY JUST WANTING THE BRICKS FROM THE OLD CHIMNEY AND TO SEE WHAT I COULD FIND WITH THE DETECTOR. I FOUND A FEW ROUND BALLS,LEAD TOYS,AND SOME MISC BRASS ITEMS. ALL OF THOSE MEANT SOOMETHING BECAUSE I KNEW IT HAD BELONGED TO MY FAMILY. ONE DAY WHILE SIFTING THROUGH WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FLOOR I FOUND SOME COINS AND A COUPLE OF INTACT BOTTLES AND A RUBBER COMB. I WAS HAPPY AS COULD BE JUST GETTING IT, THEN WHEN I GOT HOME TO WASH MY FINDS I DISCOVERED THE COMB HAD SOME WRITING ON IT. WELL TO MY AMAZEMENT I WATCHED AS THE NAME ALEXANDER WILLINGHAM CO I 11TH VA INF CAME SHINING THROUGH. I WAS IN TOTAL SHOCK. ALEXANDER WAS MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER AND HE FOUGHT WITH THE 11TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY CO I " ROUGH AND READY RIFLES" FROM RAPPAHANNOCK STATION. THAT IS MY BEST FIND AND IM SURE ALWAYS WILL BE. THANKS FOR READING

[worldtalker]

You best go back son,there's silver there somewhere!

[relichog]

very very thick

[broodingshadow]

Thats wonderfu! I know how you feel. Im living on the family farmstead and everthing is treasure to me because i also know that the land was forest when my great grandfather purchased it. He had to clear the trees to build a cabin. No one else ever lived there except mabey indians and woodland critters.