Hello All,
We decided to get out and do some digging, so Shang and I hit the fields for some long days in the heat. The good news is that we got some great finds, including over 6500 acres of new permissions, bringing our total permissions in several different areas of the state to around 52,000 acres.
Here's a video of the hunt:
We hit the fields early, and Shang dug a musket sling hook, which is a great find. He also got some other decent bits, including buttons and a nice pocket watch winder. I was very pleased to flip out a tiny silver late in the day. It was an 1853 Seated Half Dime!
We were wore out by the 95 degree (feels like 100) heat, so we called it a day, to come and dig again the next day. Started at 5:30am and got out there for a 14 hour day in the hot sweaty fields. Scouted out a new site on some of our new land, so we jumped right in. Pottery everywhere, and some clay pipe stems too--which always means Spanish, or at least Seated Silver! Unfortunately the site was LOADED with aluminum can and trash, but we kept at it and got some goodies amid the bags an bags of can shred.
First score went to Shang with a nice Enfield trigger guard!
Then I dug what I believe is a side plate from a musket (can someone confirm this?)
Also dug some flat buttons, a couple of gawgag wheat pennies and a toasted Indian, and some other bits. Then I dug a piece of "can" that rang higher and was happy to see that it was actually a piece of silver (probably a plow-destroyed spoon).
Then all of a sudden, I got a signal which (like so many others) I refused to get excited about, even though it was a perfect half real signal. Only this time--it actually was!!
Also picked up a nice musket trigger guard, which I really consider a great find. Haven't dug many of these in so intact...
The endless beans--which were fortunately dry for us for most of the day until...we could no longer dodge the clouds.
Well, when I say that the skies opened up and it DUMPED, that would be the understatement of the year. Fortunately it was brief, so we did what any sensible diggers would do--we got back out there in the mud and over 100 degree "feels-like" heat, and tried to find some more! Skies were still ominous in the distance, but we kept at it and I got a perfect signal and flipped out a flash of silver which I thought I hallucinated in the heat and humidity. Nope--it was a SILVER QUARTER!!
Turned out to be a well-worn 1907 Barber Quarter. Probably a farmer drop, but I'm VERY happy to have it. This is my 5th Barber Quarter since finding my first one in 25 years two years ago. The floodgate is open! Let the Barbers fly into my pouch!
Anyhow, pretty soon it started raining like a monsoon so we sat in the car and looked through Shang's interesting finds, then we headed home.
Here are some of the other finds:
On the left, two mystery silver pieces. One is stamped. On the right, what may be the crown from a pocket watch.
Also dug the top of a lead chess king (middle left):
Similar to these:
And here is a group shot of the rest of the finds:
The 1782 Half Real. I'm really thrilled to add another COLONIAL silver to the total!
Here's the 1907 Barber Quarter. Probably lost well after that date, judging from how smooth it is.
And the pretty little 1853 Seated Half Dime:
Keep Diggin' and Happy Hunting,
-Buck
We decided to get out and do some digging, so Shang and I hit the fields for some long days in the heat. The good news is that we got some great finds, including over 6500 acres of new permissions, bringing our total permissions in several different areas of the state to around 52,000 acres.
Here's a video of the hunt:
We hit the fields early, and Shang dug a musket sling hook, which is a great find. He also got some other decent bits, including buttons and a nice pocket watch winder. I was very pleased to flip out a tiny silver late in the day. It was an 1853 Seated Half Dime!
We were wore out by the 95 degree (feels like 100) heat, so we called it a day, to come and dig again the next day. Started at 5:30am and got out there for a 14 hour day in the hot sweaty fields. Scouted out a new site on some of our new land, so we jumped right in. Pottery everywhere, and some clay pipe stems too--which always means Spanish, or at least Seated Silver! Unfortunately the site was LOADED with aluminum can and trash, but we kept at it and got some goodies amid the bags an bags of can shred.
First score went to Shang with a nice Enfield trigger guard!
Then I dug what I believe is a side plate from a musket (can someone confirm this?)
Also dug some flat buttons, a couple of gawgag wheat pennies and a toasted Indian, and some other bits. Then I dug a piece of "can" that rang higher and was happy to see that it was actually a piece of silver (probably a plow-destroyed spoon).
Then all of a sudden, I got a signal which (like so many others) I refused to get excited about, even though it was a perfect half real signal. Only this time--it actually was!!
Also picked up a nice musket trigger guard, which I really consider a great find. Haven't dug many of these in so intact...
The endless beans--which were fortunately dry for us for most of the day until...we could no longer dodge the clouds.
Well, when I say that the skies opened up and it DUMPED, that would be the understatement of the year. Fortunately it was brief, so we did what any sensible diggers would do--we got back out there in the mud and over 100 degree "feels-like" heat, and tried to find some more! Skies were still ominous in the distance, but we kept at it and I got a perfect signal and flipped out a flash of silver which I thought I hallucinated in the heat and humidity. Nope--it was a SILVER QUARTER!!
Turned out to be a well-worn 1907 Barber Quarter. Probably a farmer drop, but I'm VERY happy to have it. This is my 5th Barber Quarter since finding my first one in 25 years two years ago. The floodgate is open! Let the Barbers fly into my pouch!
Anyhow, pretty soon it started raining like a monsoon so we sat in the car and looked through Shang's interesting finds, then we headed home.
Here are some of the other finds:
On the left, two mystery silver pieces. One is stamped. On the right, what may be the crown from a pocket watch.
Also dug the top of a lead chess king (middle left):
Similar to these:
And here is a group shot of the rest of the finds:
The 1782 Half Real. I'm really thrilled to add another COLONIAL silver to the total!
Here's the 1907 Barber Quarter. Probably lost well after that date, judging from how smooth it is.
And the pretty little 1853 Seated Half Dime:
Keep Diggin' and Happy Hunting,
-Buck
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