WildWildBill
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- Jan 1, 2015
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- White's DFX 950/White's Bullseye pinpointer
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- All Treasure Hunting
Howdy T-netters! Woke up this morning anxious to seek out a site called Bayard Point. I had mentioned it in my last thread (burned down between 1690 and 1703). Took my son with me in an attempt to detect it. A long drive down a sandy road led to a dead end, as it was posted with signs a treasure seeker hates.....no entrance, private property, no thoroughfare, no trespassing. I admit that took some getting over. Went back to Green Cove Springs and decided to look up parks in that area that might be interesting. One park in particular was nothing more than a sports complex. No shade trees meant no relief from the sun. I have never hunted a sports complex, but perhaps I'll save that one for later in the year. A huge facility! Decided to go down some secondary roads in town and spotted a park/playground with some huge live oak trees and palm trees. Cha-Ching! Could make up for a bad start I was thinking. Nothing great as you can see by the pics, but the slightly smaller, cylinder shape thing is a 50 caliber cartridge! I trained soldiers for years on the M2 50 Cal machine gun and knew what it was the minute I plucked it 5 inches down. How odd for it to be there. Have no idea what the other cylinder shaped object is, but it is brass. The huge, flat, donut thing is very old. Green Cove Springs was a hot spot during the Civil War, so who knows. The small, lead ball I believe may be a musket ball. The hole goes all the way through it. It rang up at about a 73 on my White's. Any input would be helpful. NEVER MIND.....I COMPARED IT TO A MUSKET BALL FOUND AT MY COLONIAL SITE LAST YEAR (Fort Point Peter). THIS HOLED ONE I FOUND IS THE SAME SIZE/CALIBER AS THE ONES FROM THAT COLONIAL SITE. I THINK THE BROWN CRUSTINESS ON IT THREW ME OFF. USED AS A BEAD OR SOME KIND OF GAME PIECE I GUESS.
A brass lock with a key that didn't match up, a religious bottle opener, a brass ring (sitting in middle of large iron donut), a shotgun cap, quarter, dime, nickel, 1975 copper Lincoln, and a 1946 wheatie rounded out the day. There were other large chunks of flat iron I didn't take with us, to include rusty nails and part of a door hinge. Started getting hot and called it a day. Enjoy the pics! HH!
A brass lock with a key that didn't match up, a religious bottle opener, a brass ring (sitting in middle of large iron donut), a shotgun cap, quarter, dime, nickel, 1975 copper Lincoln, and a 1946 wheatie rounded out the day. There were other large chunks of flat iron I didn't take with us, to include rusty nails and part of a door hinge. Started getting hot and called it a day. Enjoy the pics! HH!
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