Dug
Bronze Member
- Feb 18, 2013
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- XP Deus/Sovereign GT.
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Hi;
Had to take advantage of the low humidity we had this weekend and got out for about four hours this morning to an isolated site in the woods that I have been pulling flat buttons from. Poison ivy is coming up everywhere! For those that have read my previous posts about this site you will remember I'm working an early house site that was spread over four acres by past timbering companies. I have dug a few flat buttons, but coins have eluded me.
Well that changed today. I moved over to an area that I had dug some iron hoe heads and a decorative brass saddle plate with my F75. As soon as I stepped into the woods there lying on the surface was a piece of a white pipe bowl. I thought....this is looking good. Always assumed I must be in the barn area due to lack of buttons. Today I went in with my Goldbug Pro and started listening for the soft signals. Started digging pieces of cast iron cooking pot. Was getting a lot of iron low tones but found a repeatable good tone mixed in and dug up a coin. Gently brushing the dirt off with a toothbrush and I spotted a head facing to the right and figured it was a worn George III half penny. Stowed it away and went back to detecting. Managed to pop up a pewter flat button. I swear the metal detecting pixies mess with me because sometimes I will be looking at the face of flat buttons fresh out of the ground and I will see things that aren't there. Swear I saw a wheel on the pewter flat but later it turned out to be a nothing. Popped up a lock face, a brass leg to something (broke off long ago) a decorative sun burst style flattie and a few others.
As soon as I got home started gently washing the coin and saw the words...ONE CENT in the center above a wreath. Knew right away I had an early large cent. Don't know if I will ever get a date off the coin as it is both pocket worn and ate up from the pine trees, but it is my first very early large cent.
Had to take advantage of the low humidity we had this weekend and got out for about four hours this morning to an isolated site in the woods that I have been pulling flat buttons from. Poison ivy is coming up everywhere! For those that have read my previous posts about this site you will remember I'm working an early house site that was spread over four acres by past timbering companies. I have dug a few flat buttons, but coins have eluded me.
Well that changed today. I moved over to an area that I had dug some iron hoe heads and a decorative brass saddle plate with my F75. As soon as I stepped into the woods there lying on the surface was a piece of a white pipe bowl. I thought....this is looking good. Always assumed I must be in the barn area due to lack of buttons. Today I went in with my Goldbug Pro and started listening for the soft signals. Started digging pieces of cast iron cooking pot. Was getting a lot of iron low tones but found a repeatable good tone mixed in and dug up a coin. Gently brushing the dirt off with a toothbrush and I spotted a head facing to the right and figured it was a worn George III half penny. Stowed it away and went back to detecting. Managed to pop up a pewter flat button. I swear the metal detecting pixies mess with me because sometimes I will be looking at the face of flat buttons fresh out of the ground and I will see things that aren't there. Swear I saw a wheel on the pewter flat but later it turned out to be a nothing. Popped up a lock face, a brass leg to something (broke off long ago) a decorative sun burst style flattie and a few others.
As soon as I got home started gently washing the coin and saw the words...ONE CENT in the center above a wreath. Knew right away I had an early large cent. Don't know if I will ever get a date off the coin as it is both pocket worn and ate up from the pine trees, but it is my first very early large cent.
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