I decided to not go detecting today. So I didn't set the alarm. I knew it was going to be coolllddd today, so when I got up at 6:38, I knew I was done. After all, it was time to feed the cats. So by 7:30 I was out the door for a 115 mile drive to a Virginia site a lot of bullets and some buttons and a few plates and other stuff have come from. Now, in all reality, the place has been pounded. I was 2 hours behind the others who came. No biggie. I got out of the truck and went over to some ground I wanted to try. Not much but aluminum junk there.
I meandered over to my one hunting buddy and got a decent signal on the Deus, in the "70"'s. It was the base to a Williams Cleaner bullet. So at least I didn't have to go home empty handed. I walked around some big rocks and brush and got a little squeaky signal. It was a percussion cap down about 4-5".
I then decided to hunt in that general area. The guys were going all over the place, looking for a honey hole.
Third good target was a large size flat button, no backmark called a "basket weave" pattern. A button! From this hunted out site! Next came a small piece or two of lead, more aluminum, and another base to a Williams cleaner bullet. So I now feel it was worth the trip.
I started circling myself, and got a deep, "I'm not sure about this" kind of target, but I followed my own advice and started finding small rectangular pieces of old brass.
Well, I spent 45 minutes on that little hole, and the brass pieces fit together. It looks as though (best guess) due to the uniformity, the item was deliberately bent into a smaller rectangle and thrown down.
It would have been about 2.5" long, the entire top is there and rolled over on itself. There is a geometric pattern on the top piece.
The center section is a set of pillars, like on the Georgia State Seal buttons and plates. All the pieces fit together in this middle section. I only have one piece or so of the bottom.
It LOOKS LIKE a Georgia hat plate, kinda sorta, but the Georgia seal only has 3 pillars, this was a known Civil War battlefield, and Georgia troops were present. Just as I got done digging this and two whole aluminum cans within 6 inches of the "hat plate", I thought I had come up with another Confederate "I" button, but it was shotgun shell base that tricked me. It could just be the top to a snuff box or something. With that many pillars kind of also looks like the back to a Lincoln cent. Just wrong century.
I will take more pics in the am.
Can anyone put a positive ID on this lightweight brass plate? And of course rotate 90 degrees to the right. (clockwise) I'll get the better camera going soon, it doesn't do that.
I meandered over to my one hunting buddy and got a decent signal on the Deus, in the "70"'s. It was the base to a Williams Cleaner bullet. So at least I didn't have to go home empty handed. I walked around some big rocks and brush and got a little squeaky signal. It was a percussion cap down about 4-5".
I then decided to hunt in that general area. The guys were going all over the place, looking for a honey hole.
Third good target was a large size flat button, no backmark called a "basket weave" pattern. A button! From this hunted out site! Next came a small piece or two of lead, more aluminum, and another base to a Williams cleaner bullet. So I now feel it was worth the trip.
I started circling myself, and got a deep, "I'm not sure about this" kind of target, but I followed my own advice and started finding small rectangular pieces of old brass.
Well, I spent 45 minutes on that little hole, and the brass pieces fit together. It looks as though (best guess) due to the uniformity, the item was deliberately bent into a smaller rectangle and thrown down.
It would have been about 2.5" long, the entire top is there and rolled over on itself. There is a geometric pattern on the top piece.
The center section is a set of pillars, like on the Georgia State Seal buttons and plates. All the pieces fit together in this middle section. I only have one piece or so of the bottom.
It LOOKS LIKE a Georgia hat plate, kinda sorta, but the Georgia seal only has 3 pillars, this was a known Civil War battlefield, and Georgia troops were present. Just as I got done digging this and two whole aluminum cans within 6 inches of the "hat plate", I thought I had come up with another Confederate "I" button, but it was shotgun shell base that tricked me. It could just be the top to a snuff box or something. With that many pillars kind of also looks like the back to a Lincoln cent. Just wrong century.
I will take more pics in the am.
Can anyone put a positive ID on this lightweight brass plate? And of course rotate 90 degrees to the right. (clockwise) I'll get the better camera going soon, it doesn't do that.
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