Hello All,
Saturday and Sunday were both all-day-detectin days for me. The first day I went with Rodeo Recon, Foxhound, and shrc_chick86 to a colonial site that has produced over a hundred flat buttons, a Georgie Copper, and Silver Reales in the past. While we weren't lucky enough to nab a coin, I found some buttons and musketballs, a toe tap, and a brass thimble. We probably walked 12 miles that day. Here's a shot of Foxhound (left), shrc_chick86 (center) and yours truly (right) at the colonial site. Blaze orange kept us visible
When I finally got done and managed to get my finds cleaned Saturday evening, I hit the sack for a few hours sleep and then an early departure with Kindafoundabuckle and Rodeo for a little old-style house site huntin'. This was an important hunt, since it was the first time my two best buddies and I were able to hunt together with our busy schedules. (Guys, you should just retire so you have time to detect!
) We headed out to a house site in the corner of a field owned by a wonderful 90-year-old lady. Folks, this woman is a ray of sunshine every time I talk with her. Her father bought the farm 75 years ago, and when they bought it, the existing house on the property was already 150 years old. So...that gives you an idea of the age of the place. 225 years old. We figured that the second house (which was only a foundation in the 30's but since vanished) would be at least 170 years old.
We wandered into the field, and it was a breeze to find the site. There were faint depressions in the soybean field where the well and foundation used to be...and there was iron....LOTS OF IT. So we three started our usual process of diggin out the big iron so that we could listen "deeper" and "smaller" for targets. After we had pounded the site a bit--and removed many, many pounds of iron--we started getting good targets.
I dug a few interesting pieces of iron--a piano pedal, an iron buckle, and an axe head.
Rodeo found a large brass brooch or ladies' buckle that was very intricate. It appears to have had vines and flowers on the face of it before getting hit by the plow.
I got a piece of carved lead and a fired Enfield bullet. Then Rodes shouted "COIN" and our ears pricked up. The coin turned out to be an 1895 Indian Head--Rodeo's first IH and oldest coin so far. Congrats buddy! For a guy who is finding lots of great 140-year old lead and buttons, I'm sure that won't be your oldest coin for long.
We got more miscellaneous brass relics, including spigots, little brass rivets, small buckles, and almost a whole pocket watch piece by piece.
I was occasionally stopping to pick up a nice bit of pottery or china. Rodeo dug an intact bottle out of that field as well. Kindafoundabuckle went on an exploratory jaunt across the field to see what he could nab after we found the house site (it is a Civil War area), but he unfortunately came back with little to show for it.
Here is a photo of me--bundled up (it rained on us part of the time that day as well). Got four layers on--I'm good to go
And KFB and I in the field:
Rodeo dug one of the most interesting finds of the day--a small gold item about two and a half inches long. It had a hole in one end--possibly for suspending from a chain. If there are any ideas on this item, I'd love to hear them. I have a few other whatzits I'll post in the "What is it" board later on...
Here are the keepers from Sunday's hunt:
And all of the finds, including a TON of junk iron:
Special thanks to Rodeo Recon for the impressive photos of these hunts. I don't know how you manage to take photos as well as find all the goodies.
Thanks a bunch to all of the relic crew from this weekend--I had a blast! I'm sure we'll all be hunting again soon.
Regards,
Buckleboy
Saturday and Sunday were both all-day-detectin days for me. The first day I went with Rodeo Recon, Foxhound, and shrc_chick86 to a colonial site that has produced over a hundred flat buttons, a Georgie Copper, and Silver Reales in the past. While we weren't lucky enough to nab a coin, I found some buttons and musketballs, a toe tap, and a brass thimble. We probably walked 12 miles that day. Here's a shot of Foxhound (left), shrc_chick86 (center) and yours truly (right) at the colonial site. Blaze orange kept us visible
When I finally got done and managed to get my finds cleaned Saturday evening, I hit the sack for a few hours sleep and then an early departure with Kindafoundabuckle and Rodeo for a little old-style house site huntin'. This was an important hunt, since it was the first time my two best buddies and I were able to hunt together with our busy schedules. (Guys, you should just retire so you have time to detect!
) We headed out to a house site in the corner of a field owned by a wonderful 90-year-old lady. Folks, this woman is a ray of sunshine every time I talk with her. Her father bought the farm 75 years ago, and when they bought it, the existing house on the property was already 150 years old. So...that gives you an idea of the age of the place. 225 years old. We figured that the second house (which was only a foundation in the 30's but since vanished) would be at least 170 years old.
We wandered into the field, and it was a breeze to find the site. There were faint depressions in the soybean field where the well and foundation used to be...and there was iron....LOTS OF IT. So we three started our usual process of diggin out the big iron so that we could listen "deeper" and "smaller" for targets. After we had pounded the site a bit--and removed many, many pounds of iron--we started getting good targets.
I dug a few interesting pieces of iron--a piano pedal, an iron buckle, and an axe head.
Rodeo found a large brass brooch or ladies' buckle that was very intricate. It appears to have had vines and flowers on the face of it before getting hit by the plow.
I got a piece of carved lead and a fired Enfield bullet. Then Rodes shouted "COIN" and our ears pricked up. The coin turned out to be an 1895 Indian Head--Rodeo's first IH and oldest coin so far. Congrats buddy! For a guy who is finding lots of great 140-year old lead and buttons, I'm sure that won't be your oldest coin for long.
We got more miscellaneous brass relics, including spigots, little brass rivets, small buckles, and almost a whole pocket watch piece by piece.
I was occasionally stopping to pick up a nice bit of pottery or china. Rodeo dug an intact bottle out of that field as well. Kindafoundabuckle went on an exploratory jaunt across the field to see what he could nab after we found the house site (it is a Civil War area), but he unfortunately came back with little to show for it.
Here is a photo of me--bundled up (it rained on us part of the time that day as well). Got four layers on--I'm good to go
And KFB and I in the field:
Rodeo dug one of the most interesting finds of the day--a small gold item about two and a half inches long. It had a hole in one end--possibly for suspending from a chain. If there are any ideas on this item, I'd love to hear them. I have a few other whatzits I'll post in the "What is it" board later on...
Here are the keepers from Sunday's hunt:
And all of the finds, including a TON of junk iron:
Special thanks to Rodeo Recon for the impressive photos of these hunts. I don't know how you manage to take photos as well as find all the goodies.
Thanks a bunch to all of the relic crew from this weekend--I had a blast! I'm sure we'll all be hunting again soon. Regards,
Buckleboy
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