DownNDirty
Bronze Member
The last couple of months I've been hunting a large field where I have located three home sites-two that date to the 1700s/1800s and a third from the early 1900s. Due to the abundance of home sites and relics I've named it "The Hood."
When I started hunting the field it had just been planted. Last weekend I hunted it for the last time until the crops are harvested; the cotton is waist high
As with most sites the finds have become fewer and farther in between but I did manage a Barber dime and silver Roosie (two firsts for me), a couple of wheaties and a broken tombac button with a little bit of engraving
This field has been a very good spot for me, so I have taken a few pictures of groupings of the best finds. I have posted most of them before but not in total. For me the stars were the military relics; each of the three home sites produced them. The first older site gave up four Artillery Corps cuff-sized buttons presumably from one uniform. The other one produced three South Carolina militia buttons, a dropped Confederate Enfield bullet and a powder flask valve. And the twentieth century site rewarded me with a WWI dog tag and collar disk.
This was also the best site I have hunted as far as coin finds
The coins spanned nearly two hundred years, including a 1753 KG II half penny (clipped for some reason), a "dime quad-fecta," a nice 1884 Indian Head penny and several early wheaties.
Here are some of the button finds, including a silver cuff link and the tiniest flat button ever
Not sure what this pewter relic is; possibly a collar stud?
Some buckles and a quartz spear point
Some odds and ends
And iron finds
Can't wait for cooler weather and plowed-under crops to find out what else is hanging out in The Hood
When I started hunting the field it had just been planted. Last weekend I hunted it for the last time until the crops are harvested; the cotton is waist high
As with most sites the finds have become fewer and farther in between but I did manage a Barber dime and silver Roosie (two firsts for me), a couple of wheaties and a broken tombac button with a little bit of engraving
This field has been a very good spot for me, so I have taken a few pictures of groupings of the best finds. I have posted most of them before but not in total. For me the stars were the military relics; each of the three home sites produced them. The first older site gave up four Artillery Corps cuff-sized buttons presumably from one uniform. The other one produced three South Carolina militia buttons, a dropped Confederate Enfield bullet and a powder flask valve. And the twentieth century site rewarded me with a WWI dog tag and collar disk.
This was also the best site I have hunted as far as coin finds
The coins spanned nearly two hundred years, including a 1753 KG II half penny (clipped for some reason), a "dime quad-fecta," a nice 1884 Indian Head penny and several early wheaties.
Here are some of the button finds, including a silver cuff link and the tiniest flat button ever
Not sure what this pewter relic is; possibly a collar stud?
Some buckles and a quartz spear point
Some odds and ends
And iron finds
Can't wait for cooler weather and plowed-under crops to find out what else is hanging out in The Hood
Amazon Forum Fav π
Last edited:
Upvote
39