silversweeper
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- Aug 22, 2011
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Sweet CW relics from "hunted out" encampment 1st buckle!
Well this year is certainly starting off very nicely for me and my etrac. I"ve been out every chance I can get while the weather holds out and the past couple of days I've been using my 10X12 sef coil to try and find some goodies at a "hunted out" Union encampment site. Some of the finds pictured are from another site and were found with my 6x8 coil. The 10x12 has been reaching down to an awesome 10 to 12 inches on some nice bullets and today.....my first big brass Civil War belt buckle
. It still has a lot of silver plating on it but the tongue is toast. I nearly peed my pants when I saw that big square chunk of metal with the rusted iron tongue down the middle (obviously this was why it hadn't been found). I know that buckle has been swung over by various detectors probably hundreds of times. Personally I've been over that spot at least a half dozen times with my procoil, but then it was way deep. I almost gave up on it as a false signal after I dug to about 12 inches but it was right below that. Fortunately I had my camera along for pictures of it and a big three ringer I found in situ. Both the bullet and buckle, 3 pistol bullets I found the day before (and a fired bullet which may have been a williams cleaner, not sure), were all at least 10 inches and deeper. And I thought I'd even found a good coin when I dug one up at 10 inches but it turned out to be a danged '44 wheatie 
(don't know how that got down there!!). Also pictured is a sweet little (but flimsy) picture frame that one of the soldiers probably had a picture of his sweetie in, a few other odds and ends, and a very old Boy Scout button that I'm trying to find more info on. Never seen one like it with an indian chief, anyone here seen it before?
Love my etrac!!
Well this year is certainly starting off very nicely for me and my etrac. I"ve been out every chance I can get while the weather holds out and the past couple of days I've been using my 10X12 sef coil to try and find some goodies at a "hunted out" Union encampment site. Some of the finds pictured are from another site and were found with my 6x8 coil. The 10x12 has been reaching down to an awesome 10 to 12 inches on some nice bullets and today.....my first big brass Civil War belt buckle
. It still has a lot of silver plating on it but the tongue is toast. I nearly peed my pants when I saw that big square chunk of metal with the rusted iron tongue down the middle (obviously this was why it hadn't been found). I know that buckle has been swung over by various detectors probably hundreds of times. Personally I've been over that spot at least a half dozen times with my procoil, but then it was way deep. I almost gave up on it as a false signal after I dug to about 12 inches but it was right below that. Fortunately I had my camera along for pictures of it and a big three ringer I found in situ. Both the bullet and buckle, 3 pistol bullets I found the day before (and a fired bullet which may have been a williams cleaner, not sure), were all at least 10 inches and deeper. And I thought I'd even found a good coin when I dug one up at 10 inches but it turned out to be a danged '44 wheatie (don't know how that got down there!!). Also pictured is a sweet little (but flimsy) picture frame that one of the soldiers probably had a picture of his sweetie in, a few other odds and ends, and a very old Boy Scout button that I'm trying to find more info on. Never seen one like it with an indian chief, anyone here seen it before?Love my etrac!!
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That picture frame in an awesome find too. 
) though who wore it. This was a large Union encampment in a heavily stationed town, little chance it was Confederate worn. I'm still daydreaming about finding a CS encampment....those are hard to find around here, whereas this site is only a few minutes from my house.
I maybe way off, so awaiting their input...
