1005 Buttons..........

[CRUSADER]

Dad & I have just broken the 1000 button mark for this year. I only started counting on request of Woody (this year), & its been quite fun finding out.


Picture 1 shows a small area of future bird cover, tiny piece of ploughed land which took 1.5 hours for us to cover. Not much other than a lead piece with IM (pre 18th century JM), no idea what it is.

Picture 2 is 1.5 hours on the land we have been doing recently. This was our last day, as we just noticed a crop coming through.
1 scrappy
Broken buckle
bits....

What can we do this weekend

 

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[civil war hunter]

cool.

 

[crazyjarhead]

1000 old buttons? I (we) will never see that many in a lifetime of detecting. Wish I could hunt where you are Crusader

 

[shaun7]

whats the thing next to the buckle, with the pattern on? looks old!

 

[CRUSADER]

whats the thing next to the buckle, with the pattern on? looks old!

no idea, its not very old (Victy) suspender buckle thingy

 

[shaun7]

oh yeah! looked bigger

 

[allen]

take this weekend off and drink a cold brew...

 

[CRUSADER]

take this weekend off and drink a cold brew...

I do that anyway, but I guess I could drink for six hours instead.

 

[allen]

even if you drank for 6 hours, you
could still out detect most of us..

 

[shaun7]

take this weekend off and drink a cold brew...

I do that anyway, but I guess I could drink for six hours instead.

hey, don't knock it!

 

[PA]

hi cursader,

i once found nearly 1000 buttons in 1 year but i live in the usa not england. i consider mine a outstanding acomplishment. go get more now.

henry

 

[The Seeker]

Post all the buttons, we would like to see them...........Nice!!!

 

[ModernMiner]

Cru,
FANTASTIC jobs on the buttons, and just think, you're just getting started.
Congrats,
MM

 

[Iron Patch]

I counted two different years and dug about a 1000 each time. Your % military don't seem to be as good as here, of course you also dig many that date before they began to be marked. I'd say I was about 1 military for every 10 plain but these last couple of years I don't think were as good, certainly don't have the count not being out as much.

 

[lairmo]

Sewing 'thread' must have really sucked back then for all these buttons to have come off.....

 

[CRUSADER]

I counted two different years and dug about a 1000 each time. Your % military don't seem to be as good as here, of course you also dig many that date before they began to be marked. I'd say I was about 1 military for every 10 plain but these last couple of years I don't think were as good, certainly don't have the count not being out as much.

The military I find are mostly on three fields where the ratio is 50% or higher, as they were military related dumps. The normal ratio is about 1 in 20. I only actually keep about 1 in 10 overall.

 

[dirthunter]

Excellent.......I love finding old buttons.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Now you will never have an excuse for missing a button, LOL! That's a lot of buttons. I wonder how many I have? HH, Mike

 

[CRUSADER]

Now you will never have an excuse for missing a button, LOL! That's a lot of buttons. I wonder how many I have? HH, Mike

i always have an excuse, 'the missus didn't sew it on'

 

[pepperj]

That's a great number, how many silver ones?