I've been detecting three Civil War sites for the past couple weeks. Yesterday was great, I got a lot of different items. Not everything is cleaned up yet, it does take awhile.
The first pic is a knapsack "triangle" in brass, a bent iron wire for unknown purposes and iron buckles.
Second picture is three equipment buckles and a nice Civil War fork. I have a second one but it is uncleaned as of yet.
Two nearly complete ration cans, they are HARD to get these days, some lids to the cans, and the neck to a CW champagne bottle.
.69 caliber Confederate Gardner bullet, Union 6th corps badge in brass and half to a bowl of a CW pipe.
Sharps bullets, one 3 ringer and other lead.
Three pieces to brass pen knives, What is probably a small piece (on the right) of a busted "US" plate, porcelain button, iron underwear button, lead.
Four Union eagle buttons and a nasty looking eagle "V" button, my first. Underwear button and brass grommet to poncho. One of the eagles looks funny as the front was partially broken and I'm filling it in with plastic to conserve it.
Company hat letter "B", porcelain buttons, underwear buttons, two percussion caps, shield shaped item in brass, more of those blasted poncho grommets (signals sound like cuff eagle buttons, oh the horror of it), two more porcelain buttons, camp lead, and one of my favorites, to the right of the percussion caps is a button made of horn!
Not shown: a complete Enfield ramrod, cut carefully into two pieces, and half a bucket of glass, nails, and I'm missing a couple eagle buttons and a few other items I have put...somewhere close. This was a LOT of work, but the Deus worked like a champ in the undetectable red Virginia dirt.
The first pic is a knapsack "triangle" in brass, a bent iron wire for unknown purposes and iron buckles.
Second picture is three equipment buckles and a nice Civil War fork. I have a second one but it is uncleaned as of yet.
Two nearly complete ration cans, they are HARD to get these days, some lids to the cans, and the neck to a CW champagne bottle.
.69 caliber Confederate Gardner bullet, Union 6th corps badge in brass and half to a bowl of a CW pipe.
Sharps bullets, one 3 ringer and other lead.
Three pieces to brass pen knives, What is probably a small piece (on the right) of a busted "US" plate, porcelain button, iron underwear button, lead.
Four Union eagle buttons and a nasty looking eagle "V" button, my first. Underwear button and brass grommet to poncho. One of the eagles looks funny as the front was partially broken and I'm filling it in with plastic to conserve it.
Company hat letter "B", porcelain buttons, underwear buttons, two percussion caps, shield shaped item in brass, more of those blasted poncho grommets (signals sound like cuff eagle buttons, oh the horror of it), two more porcelain buttons, camp lead, and one of my favorites, to the right of the percussion caps is a button made of horn! Not shown: a complete Enfield ramrod, cut carefully into two pieces, and half a bucket of glass, nails, and I'm missing a couple eagle buttons and a few other items I have put...somewhere close. This was a LOT of work, but the Deus worked like a champ in the undetectable red Virginia dirt.
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