Colonial Buckles..Very Nice Large Batwing...Buttons...And a toasty George II

Brian W

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I went to a spot i found last year...It was already hunted so i didnt spend too much time there...I decided to go back and take my time working the cellars and pastures...The place is huge...We found a great spot with some targets..All from 1700's :icon_thumleft: I found this sweet Batwing buckle, Its huge 3 1/2 X 2 1/2..Found some nice Dandy buttons and a cuff size tombac...I found one coin a toasty George II...My hunting buddy found a 1723 Woods Hibernia and a 1787 conn copper :icon_thumleft: ...We were so frustrated because the other detectorists didnt fill there holes :nono:...We filled in alot but there are tons...People who see us there will think we did it, And we always fill our holes...Anyways here are the finds :thumbsup:
 

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amazing hunt, Brian.
those buckles are SWEET!
congrats on the GII.
sorry to hear about the miscreant detectorists.
i encounter the same thing at some of my spots.

dwayne
 

sweet! those are some nice buckles and relics! i can relate to seeing open holes.it is frustrating!
 

Watch out--someone will probably try to tell you that those batwing buckles are 1800s... (I still think they're 1700s finds, and this grouping supports that.)

Those are some GREAT finds! Bravo.


Best Wishes,


Buckleboy
 

Real nice buckles! Congrats........Hogge :headbang:
 

Nice digs Brian !!! I like the buckles .That is not the last you'll see of KG II . He will be back , I just know it ! Hope you get some more stuff there ..looks like a location for some more great finds 8) CMDdawg
 

You guys hit an awesome site. It sounds like the one we hit 2 weeks ago. Every signal turned out to be from the 1700s. The coppers were awesome and the buttons plentiful. Pennsylvania is loaded with these types of sites. We just have to buckle down and find them. The same goes for your area. Colonial history is where the copper story begins.....

Kirk
 

killer buckles!!!!!!!! MR TUFF
 

BuckleBoy said:
Watch out--someone will probably try to tell you that those batwing buckles are 1800s... (I still think they're 1700s finds, and this grouping supports that.)

Those are some GREAT finds! Bravo.


Best Wishes,


Buckleboy

Not me, that one looks 18th Century. :headbang: Maybe you haven't spottted the difference of those that have the off-set bar & are generally brass? I have 3 book sources that say those are 19th C, plus the UKDFD. :wink:
 

BuckleBoy said:
Watch out--someone will probably try to tell you that those batwing buckles are 1800s... (I still think they're 1700s finds, and this grouping supports that.)

Those are some GREAT finds! Bravo.


Best Wishes,


Buckleboy
Yes I agree Will :icon_thumleft:

Although this one is not identical, it's certainly of the same theme, and fits to a early time frame :read2:


http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=8797&cat=176

SS
 

Nice finds guys!! As far as not filling in holes, one thing I have noticed in recent years, since I have been retired, I have more time to go back to the same site more often, sometimes twice in the same week, and to my surprise I have noticed that a lot of my holes were completely opened up again even though I cover each and every hole all the time.

This is not just happening at one site but many of them. I suspect that raccoons, possums, skunks, etc at looking for an easier meal and redigging in their quest benefiting from our loosening up of the soil. This seems to happen at most of the sites near water and not the isloated upland sites.

Don
 

Don in SJ said:
Nice finds guys!! As far as not filling in holes, one thing I have noticed in recent years, since I have been retired, I have more time to go back to the same site more often, sometimes twice in the same week, and to my surprise I have noticed that a lot of my holes were completely opened up again even though I cover each and every hole all the time.

This is not just happening at one site but many of them. I suspect that raccoons, possums, skunks, etc at looking for an easier meal and redigging in their quest benefiting from our loosening up of the soil. This seems to happen at most of the sites near water and not the isloated upland sites.

Don
That also happens here Don :o Rabbits usually the culprits, although Foxes and Badger do also :) one of the farmers came to us one day, he said to us I was going to tell you off for not filling your holes :o but then said after he took a closer look, it was Badgers that had done it....phew :-X

SS
 

Nice finds

HH

Lonewolfe
 

Thanks for all the kind replys..I sure had fun digging these relics :icon_thumleft:
 

Nice digs Brian. :thumbsup: Always look forward to your posts, your digging some nice stuff this year. :thumbsup:
 

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