Bill D. (VA)
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Yesterday's hunt produces a Spanish cob plus some nice Native American artifacts
Made another trip back to the site where I dug the 1795 liberty cap cent last week. But the main purpose of this hunt was to walk the nearby creekfront where the owner's family has found quite a bit of early-to-mid 1600s delftware pottery shards including large pieces from those drug jars, and these are now displayed in the local museum. She said nobody had been down there in years so I was really psyched up. But I was quite disappointed when I didn't find the first piece, and only one sliver of black glass. But I was able to eyeball quite a few pieces of Native American pottery as well as a large point. These items are especially significant coming from this site as a number of early settlers were slain here in the massacre of 1622. I also found this thin, cone shaped brass item that could either be very early or quite recent. But there's something about it that makes be think its a 1600s artifact, although my imagination may be getting the best of me. It does look familiar, though.
Eventually I made my way back to the field and spent a lot of time roaming in an attempt to locate another iron patch or hotspot. But it seemed the previous folks that hunted this site dug up just about every signal in the clean ground, but did not touch the iron, which is where I've made 95% of my finds. So I ended up back in the 2 iron patches for the last hour and managed to come up with a few buttons and a merc. I also recovered a tiny piece that registered fairly high on my F75, but it was so small I almost threw it in my trash pocket. This morning when I was cleaning my finds I started rubbing on this little piece to remove the black tarnish, and lo and behold the image of a Spanish cross started to appear. I quickly realized this was indeed a super small cob remnant, and I can see how it could have been easily lost. But it still counts as Spanish silver, and brings my count for the season to 12 (but still a far cry from last year's 24). Not sure if this site will produce much more, but I may give it one more try next week before putting together a large wooden display case together for the owner.
Made another trip back to the site where I dug the 1795 liberty cap cent last week. But the main purpose of this hunt was to walk the nearby creekfront where the owner's family has found quite a bit of early-to-mid 1600s delftware pottery shards including large pieces from those drug jars, and these are now displayed in the local museum. She said nobody had been down there in years so I was really psyched up. But I was quite disappointed when I didn't find the first piece, and only one sliver of black glass. But I was able to eyeball quite a few pieces of Native American pottery as well as a large point. These items are especially significant coming from this site as a number of early settlers were slain here in the massacre of 1622. I also found this thin, cone shaped brass item that could either be very early or quite recent. But there's something about it that makes be think its a 1600s artifact, although my imagination may be getting the best of me. It does look familiar, though.
Eventually I made my way back to the field and spent a lot of time roaming in an attempt to locate another iron patch or hotspot. But it seemed the previous folks that hunted this site dug up just about every signal in the clean ground, but did not touch the iron, which is where I've made 95% of my finds. So I ended up back in the 2 iron patches for the last hour and managed to come up with a few buttons and a merc. I also recovered a tiny piece that registered fairly high on my F75, but it was so small I almost threw it in my trash pocket. This morning when I was cleaning my finds I started rubbing on this little piece to remove the black tarnish, and lo and behold the image of a Spanish cross started to appear. I quickly realized this was indeed a super small cob remnant, and I can see how it could have been easily lost. But it still counts as Spanish silver, and brings my count for the season to 12 (but still a far cry from last year's 24). Not sure if this site will produce much more, but I may give it one more try next week before putting together a large wooden display case together for the owner.
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