- Feb 3, 2009
- 37,512
- 139,076
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 1
- Detector(s) used
- Deus, Deus 2, Minelab 3030, E-Trac,
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Finally got a permission one of the longest ones that I have done 2 hrs, asked a landowner and low be hold the chattiest guy going and after driving out of the driveway I had to chase the real landowner across a golf coarse to the 10th fareway to ask the permission to do his lands. Lol When it comes to a permission I'll dodge a few golf balls. The great thing about wasting some detecting time was I got to drive through the fields to the site instead of walking a 1/2 mile through the brush and creek. So the first site didn't have a whole lot of targets usual harmonica reeds, bits of this and that.
So I headed across the creek to a buried foundation.Landowner said it was no problem crossing the creek, that's an 8ft board, I'm not jumping something two ft deep at my age.
20 minutes later my first diggable target.1842 Half Penny Token
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Next target was a nice old hand forged knife blade
Then it seemed like that was it, a dry spell and nothing good was coming up until I heard that sweet sound again, flipping the large plug out there sat what I already knew a 1857 One penny Token
I dug this very sharp brass pen quill? No dumb ass! It's a point off a hunting arrow as no writing tip could be this big could it?Then after cleaning it up I'm sticking to a pen/writing tip.
I dug a brass thin disk with a large star stamped on it and finished the hunt with a knob off a tobacco jar lid. It was hard pasture, short early summer grazing for a few head so the field had 6-8" of hay layed down with tuffs 3 ft high. There's still two more homestead sites to be looked at, and then it will be a spring return hunt when this grass is dead. Some clean up shots.
1842 Half Penny Bank Token
1857 One Penny Token
The star
The writing instrument 4 1/4" long
Lid off aTobacco Jar lid
So I headed across the creek to a buried foundation.Landowner said it was no problem crossing the creek, that's an 8ft board, I'm not jumping something two ft deep at my age.
20 minutes later my first diggable target.1842 Half Penny Token
View attachment 1506510 View attachment 1506513
Next target was a nice old hand forged knife blade
Then it seemed like that was it, a dry spell and nothing good was coming up until I heard that sweet sound again, flipping the large plug out there sat what I already knew a 1857 One penny Token
I dug this very sharp brass pen quill? No dumb ass! It's a point off a hunting arrow as no writing tip could be this big could it?Then after cleaning it up I'm sticking to a pen/writing tip.
I dug a brass thin disk with a large star stamped on it and finished the hunt with a knob off a tobacco jar lid. It was hard pasture, short early summer grazing for a few head so the field had 6-8" of hay layed down with tuffs 3 ft high. There's still two more homestead sites to be looked at, and then it will be a spring return hunt when this grass is dead. Some clean up shots.
1842 Half Penny Bank Token
1857 One Penny Token
The star
The writing instrument 4 1/4" long
Lid off aTobacco Jar lid
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