BlackX
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After finding the Fugio and three other large coppers on that new site Wednesday night, I've been dying to get back. I couldn't go Thursday night since I was picking up my kids but, after jonesing all day at work waiting for the work day to end, I headed out last evening. There was a storm coming in so I left a bit early. 
Rain was already spattering as I walked to the car but that just made me hurry more yet. Drove through rush-hour traffic to finally arrive at a parking space around the corner and, after putting cell phone, camera, etc. in plastic bags, excitedly headed for the park. Arriving at the park, I hurriedly geared up and did a quick scan as I headed down to the area where I'd found the large coppers all in one small area. Think I dug one nail on the way. I mentally demarcated an area to cover and started horizontal sweeps along the slope. Nothing but iffy signals that turned out to be nail, nail, lead, nail,.... Then finally, after a few passes, got a fairly solid signal pretty much in the center of where I'd found the LCs, and dug up a button(?). It's very flat, writing on the face but not the back (no decoration either), but does have a pit on the back opposite the center from the through-pit that shows on the face. I still haven't figured out what the writing says (...DOV...?).
I thought I had another LC at first when I found this 1897 Indian Head off in one corner about 10 feet away from ground zero:
On my last sweep of the top of the grid, I found this large iron object. Anyone know what it is? (Reminded me of a minature end of a cannon.) Inner diameter of the opening is a hair over 1 1/8".
After all of the passes in one direction covering the target area, except for the button(?), IH, and the iron cap thing, I hadn't found anything of interest.
At that point, I went back and checked some very iffy signals I'd marked with golf tees. More nails. As it was getting late, I figured I'd leave the gridding at 90 degrees for another time and headed off to run some scans through other parts of the park to see what else popped up, digging just fairly solid signals.
After ignoring a bunch of modern crap, although digging a few of them to check, I scanned a meandering path towards one corner and back up the side and turned up three wheats, a '19, '36, & '44, and more bits of lead. (One I'm curious about is 2nd from the left in the lead row in the following picture. It seems to have been manufactured in that shape with a drilled/punched hole in it. The ones on either side of that seem like they might have been something once too, particularly the one on the right of it.)
Here's all the finds from the hunt minus, I think, two pulltabs and a screw cap.
I did learn a lot about nails on this hunt. Particularly that a nail in a vertical position can sound pretty darn good.
I wouldn't have bothered posting these except, in the context of the other finds, I thought some folks might be interested. It was a bit of a let-down to not find another LC but I'll keep hitting the site and suspect I may pull at least one more out of there eventually. If I find anything particularly interesting there again, I'll be sure to post. But, no matter what, it's one more site with good possibilities in the rotation.
Rain was already spattering as I walked to the car but that just made me hurry more yet. Drove through rush-hour traffic to finally arrive at a parking space around the corner and, after putting cell phone, camera, etc. in plastic bags, excitedly headed for the park. Arriving at the park, I hurriedly geared up and did a quick scan as I headed down to the area where I'd found the large coppers all in one small area. Think I dug one nail on the way. I mentally demarcated an area to cover and started horizontal sweeps along the slope. Nothing but iffy signals that turned out to be nail, nail, lead, nail,.... Then finally, after a few passes, got a fairly solid signal pretty much in the center of where I'd found the LCs, and dug up a button(?). It's very flat, writing on the face but not the back (no decoration either), but does have a pit on the back opposite the center from the through-pit that shows on the face. I still haven't figured out what the writing says (...DOV...?).
I thought I had another LC at first when I found this 1897 Indian Head off in one corner about 10 feet away from ground zero:
On my last sweep of the top of the grid, I found this large iron object. Anyone know what it is? (Reminded me of a minature end of a cannon.) Inner diameter of the opening is a hair over 1 1/8".
After all of the passes in one direction covering the target area, except for the button(?), IH, and the iron cap thing, I hadn't found anything of interest.
At that point, I went back and checked some very iffy signals I'd marked with golf tees. More nails. As it was getting late, I figured I'd leave the gridding at 90 degrees for another time and headed off to run some scans through other parts of the park to see what else popped up, digging just fairly solid signals.
After ignoring a bunch of modern crap, although digging a few of them to check, I scanned a meandering path towards one corner and back up the side and turned up three wheats, a '19, '36, & '44, and more bits of lead. (One I'm curious about is 2nd from the left in the lead row in the following picture. It seems to have been manufactured in that shape with a drilled/punched hole in it. The ones on either side of that seem like they might have been something once too, particularly the one on the right of it.)
Here's all the finds from the hunt minus, I think, two pulltabs and a screw cap.
I did learn a lot about nails on this hunt.
Particularly that a nail in a vertical position can sound pretty darn good. I wouldn't have bothered posting these except, in the context of the other finds, I thought some folks might be interested. It was a bit of a let-down to not find another LC but I'll keep hitting the site and suspect I may pull at least one more out of there eventually. If I find anything particularly interesting there again, I'll be sure to post. But, no matter what, it's one more site with good possibilities in the rotation.
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