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Well the weather is warming and the fields are planted. The tides seemed just right and my buddy Beau and I decided to put on the wet-suits and jump in the balmy 60 degree water for a day of fun and colonial goodies.
This is the site that I rediscovered last summer that produced dozens of coins and buttons, hundreds of musket balls and a cornucopia of other colonial and 1800s goodies! The particular area dates from the 1600s through the civil war and you can tell it by the amount of iron located within it. Unfortunately the tides were not ideal as they quickly half emptied and even more expediently filled back up. On top of that, neither of us remembered to bring a dive belt as we were just wading and the goodies were in deeper water that proved difficult to get due to the buoyancy of the wet suit.
Still we had a good time and managed to dig a few nice finds. Beau started out with a couple of buttons and musket balls while I was digging a few of my own but struck first with a nice ring that is probably more like 1800s than 1700s as the glass stone is completely crushed. Suddenly, right in the middle of the area I dug fairly consistently last summer out popped an iffy, but repeatable signal and coin#1 surfaced, this one a 1700 William III copper! Moving over a short distance and trying to get into the deeper water I got a signal that I swore would be a chunk of an aluminum can and much to my surprise it was a 1733 George II copper!
Shortly after I dug a nice complete buckle (either a small shoe or larger breeches buckle). A few more musket balls and the occasional button rounded out the day. This site has plenty of hot spots of lead from .70 balls to pellet shot and Beau discovered one full of buck shot pellet. All were certainly 1700s with crude sprus and mold seams and we had fun just fanning away for them, probably a few hundred still there. I managed to pull a nice handful out and he was still at it prior and post. I also ended up in a hole farther from shore with a good number of them as well.
My total for the day was 11 large caliber balls and probably 30 or more of the "shot pellets." My better non-lead finds were certainly the two coins and four buttons and along with brass and iron nails (some of the better ones pictured) and the nice early pewter rat-tail spoon end. Beau ended up with about the same, though he traded his two coppers for one lonely and worn, but nice spanish 1600s cob.
The summer is just beginning boys and girls...onward to more!
HH
Dan
This is the site that I rediscovered last summer that produced dozens of coins and buttons, hundreds of musket balls and a cornucopia of other colonial and 1800s goodies! The particular area dates from the 1600s through the civil war and you can tell it by the amount of iron located within it. Unfortunately the tides were not ideal as they quickly half emptied and even more expediently filled back up. On top of that, neither of us remembered to bring a dive belt as we were just wading and the goodies were in deeper water that proved difficult to get due to the buoyancy of the wet suit.
Still we had a good time and managed to dig a few nice finds. Beau started out with a couple of buttons and musket balls while I was digging a few of my own but struck first with a nice ring that is probably more like 1800s than 1700s as the glass stone is completely crushed. Suddenly, right in the middle of the area I dug fairly consistently last summer out popped an iffy, but repeatable signal and coin#1 surfaced, this one a 1700 William III copper! Moving over a short distance and trying to get into the deeper water I got a signal that I swore would be a chunk of an aluminum can and much to my surprise it was a 1733 George II copper!
Shortly after I dug a nice complete buckle (either a small shoe or larger breeches buckle). A few more musket balls and the occasional button rounded out the day. This site has plenty of hot spots of lead from .70 balls to pellet shot and Beau discovered one full of buck shot pellet. All were certainly 1700s with crude sprus and mold seams and we had fun just fanning away for them, probably a few hundred still there. I managed to pull a nice handful out and he was still at it prior and post. I also ended up in a hole farther from shore with a good number of them as well.
My total for the day was 11 large caliber balls and probably 30 or more of the "shot pellets." My better non-lead finds were certainly the two coins and four buttons and along with brass and iron nails (some of the better ones pictured) and the nice early pewter rat-tail spoon end. Beau ended up with about the same, though he traded his two coppers for one lonely and worn, but nice spanish 1600s cob.
The summer is just beginning boys and girls...onward to more!
HH
Dan
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