coinman123
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I finally was able to get out and metal detect at a cellar hole I found a few days ago while researching. I told my mom I would take her to the next cellar hole I go to, as she has been asking to go metal detecting with me for around a year. It was a half an hour drive for her to the place, and around .2 miles in the woods behind a nearby school (which I carefully mapped out the easiest way to get there). While walking to the place, the first thing we noticed was that in the bottom of a huge valley was a rather large river with a stone wall built up very high on the edge of it, around 20 feet long. On the other side of the valley, on the side of the huge hill was the cellar hole. In front of it was an extremely old road lined by stone walls, that like the cellar hole, didn't appear on a single map dating as far back as the 1850's. The road continued the other way past the cellar hole down near the way I came. I had to be home by 7, so I only had half an hour there, but decided to make the best of it. Within a minute of turning on my metal detector I got a signal on the edge of the cellar hole, and dug a fragment of a very ornate colonial shoe buckle frame. Less than 3 feet away I dug a complete colonial octagonal cuff link with a nice floral pattern. My mom yelled out for help digging a signal, which ended up being a beautiful complete 1700's shoe buckle frame. I decided to go to the road next to cellar hole and dug two colonial buttons, and also a musket ball which was right next to the road. There was very little iron at this cellar hole, and almost no trash or interference, making the metal detector extremely quiet, even on the edge of the actual cellar hole. My junk finds from the day were a big 1870's rim fire bullet casing, and what looks like a lead shotgun slug embedded in wood. I am looking very forward to coming back here for a longer hunt, and am happy to finally have a good cellar hole to go to. It has been getting extremely hard to find a cellar hole that is not either completely full of trash, hunted out, or just empty in general for some reason. Finding a cellar hole that was abandoned in the 1700's or early 1800's has also been a fairly hard thing for me to do, but normally they are the best type of cellar hole for colonial era finds.
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