2 SPANISH COBS TODAY! NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE IN 25 YEARS OF SWINGING

[Cross Potent]

Take care guys and gals. Moved to facebook and youtube.

 

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[screwynewy]

I can only hope to find a site that productive with early colonial relics and coins. Enjoy it while it last! I'll be the first to call out banner on finding two cobs in one hunt. Seems the members here are getting hard to please or just stingy with banner votes.

 

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[Mr.T]

Thats cool! Keep going there...Great finds!

 

[Army of 1]

Congrats C.P , nice early cobs and some cool artefacts , a good day out ..cheers Mick

 

[collector01]

Congrats on another great hunt! Couldn't emagine finding 2 cobs in one hunt, just awesome. One nice pile of relics to go along with the silver, liking them buckles. Can't wait to see what you pull out of there next! Just get up with me if you need help digging lol. HH!

 

[sutphin]

Cross potent you don't want me to say what I think of your finds , These sites that you are hunting are unreal and you are one lucky guy. Man I cant wait till this storm passes suppose to get over a foot of snow and the temps start to rise for you make a person go into withdrawls with all them 1700s relics like the buckle well all of it.I will be watching for more , good luck.vanzutphen

 

[CanadaGold]

Epic site

 

[dirtlooter]

congrats on the obviously fantastic hunt, had to be even more special to be hunting with your wife. congrats again

 

[Silver Tree Chaser]

Congrats - Man, you are just making total killer finds out in that field. You must be quite excited to be getting out on such a productive site. I know the end of brass attachment on the ring appears threaded, but I'm certain that I've seen pipe tampers similar in appearance, though the threads don't make sense. The cobs are awesome. Two is 20 minutes - Oh God! The only thing that I've seen happen in 20 minutes for the past few months is an inch of snowfall!

 

[ironhorse]

The ring with the threaded end on the stem coming from it, reminds of candle holder handles in shape/form, that's a route I would pursue in a id

 

[Roadrunner007]

Great Finds!....Congrats!!

 

[JamieD]

Nice cobs. I'm pretty sure the threaded piece is a georgian pocket corkscrew/pipe tamper with the bottom section lost.
The last photo on this web page shows both an intact and broken example

C J's Metal Detecting Pages

 

[Silver Searcher]

Now that's a site I wouldn't mind having, lots of potential to come form here. Your threaded piece is a horse reign guide.

SS

 

[Ahab8]

You dirty dog! At it again I see with your beautiful old coins and relics. What an incredible site you're on. Mass silver, multiple Cobs, beautiful early buckles....and the list goes on. Really happy for you my friend. You're living every colonial hunters dream

 

[Iron Patch]

Amazing Colonial site. I'd be on a total high every minute swinging over ground like that.

 

[cjon455]

Those cobbs are beautiful!, that's an amazing site,I bet every digable tone gets ya excited, man keep pounding that place!!

 

[tormes]

Congrats !!! Cross Potent, nice finds. On the big one I can see México City mint mark (M and O above), also assayer mark P, then this mint/assayer/type only can be 2 reales, king Philip IV and although date zone is gone, it must be from 1641 or 1654 (perhaps 1653, 1655 or 1657, but I dont know if these types of issues are similars to yours). For 2 reales diameter must be 25 mm. , weight 6,76 gr. and silver fineness .931.

t.

 

[park pirate]

Outstanding...

 

[Scrappy]

Hot diggity dog! Starting off in the rain and then scoring 2 cobs...that's called passion for one's hobby!

Great scores!

 

[Cross Potent]

Nice cobs. I'm pretty sure the threaded piece is a georgian pocket corkscrew/pipe tamper with the bottom section lost.
The last photo on this web page shows both an intact and broken example

C J's Metal Detecting Pages

Wow. Thanks for that link! 100% it is an old pocket corkscrew. Fitting for my wife to find this - she loves her wine. lol

 

[Cross Potent]

I was just taking notice that although there are plenty of coins, leather ornaments and other relics at this site, the buttons are relatively few. Seems as though if this was a heavily occupied area your button count would be considerably higher. Very strange. And usually when this much silver is present there's a good chance a tavern or inn was on the site, or a busy plantation. If it's a plantation site, there will be several other outbuildings with their own iron patches and relics. Regardless, you should be able to find a sizable trash pit(s) there. I know I've mentioned that multiple times, but your best finds could actually come from the pits if you can be fortunate enough to locate them. In many cases, the 17th century pits were located in close proximity to the structure so if you can find the major iron patch the pits should be lurking close-by. Good luck!

Yes I cant get over how sparse the buttons are. I'll count them up but it may only be 30 - 50. Many of them are cast pewter. I'm planning on asking the farmer if I can lease approx 2 acres this winter to prevent him from planting wheat otherwise with him planting corn and then wheat and then soybeans and then considering deer hunting season we wont get into this site again until feb 2017. That stinks. Anyway that brings me to your idea on an old inn. I found this link to calculate the land I want to lease and so I just went in and figured the area of the iron beds and its easily an acre or more. None of my other sites are even close to that large. I mean not half that.

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There is no question multiple buildings sat on this site but appear to have been fairly close together. Although the iron never really stops there are super concentrations that even my Deus has serious problems with. These are areas we plan to dig up starting next week. What I have noticed is there is so much iron in these areas that it appears its masking targets immediately beneath. Meaning we can just clear 3 or 4 inches off say a 20' x 30' area at a time to reveal even more relics. Neither of the cobs was deep - just a few inches. The farmer says we can leave the areas excavated overnight. He's really, really cool. If I had time I'd get a Bobcat back here. But he said they'll be spreading manure and working it in next month. Not enough time due to this whacky weather.

No doubt this is a very special place. I feel convinced it will produce many amazing things yet and will most likely be the best place I ever hunted without question. My only question of an inn here would be why is there so much widespread iron? Just crazy amounts of iron.