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Well Bill and I got back together this morning at the site of our most recent adventure. This was an primarily a 19th century site with a civil war era camp on a piece of land that had ample history from the 17th and 18th centuries. We kept finding pieces of those earlier years all while hunting a civil war era camp and 19th century house site.
The day started off a little slow as we spread out checking additional areas to no avail. Once we began to work back towards the camp and building sites the finds began to pick up striking first with a nice heel plate. A flat button here and a flat button there along with a plethora of scrap brass and lead. Finally I hit what I thought was going to be another good button. When it popped out of the ground I immediately thought another CS. Instead it was a US Navy button. these pre-civil war navies typically were worn by CS and militia troopers. To fool me even further, the button when dug looked like it was going to be a gem as all I could see was the top portion. Once the cleaning process began I noticed a horrible push on the face...oh well...still another war period button. I also dug a nice scale weight with great markings (19th century) which made me a happy camper.
The second half of the day began to slow down even while a few finds kept coming. I had probably dug a dozen or more buttons when Bill and I decided to go check out a couple other areas and then potentially head to an entirely different site. It was 2pm and we had to decide, to make matters worse I decided on the "one more lane" mentality and to my surprise it produced a matron head US Large Cent (1816-1839) and then a couple more two piece buttons. Aside from that, another early (18th century) apothecary weight and broken trapezoidal buckle popped up. Now it was 2:45 and we had to make a decision and we made the right one.
We decided to cut one of the two investigative walks out and zero in where I had found a random flat button in a field across the lane during our initial walk. I covered one end and Bill the other...my end provided nothing and I was hastily walking back to Bill to grab him and hit the road when he dug a good sign of early activity. Then did I, and then...we both dug a button at the same time. From there it was on and a race against time as we had only about 90 minutes to dig. Button, button, button and another button. I dug 14 or 15 in that final hour or so of digging along with other odds and ends (a third weight) and Bill came closer to doubling that than not.
In total I dug 27 buttons yesterday, including a CW era navy, a Large Cent, weight scales and plenty of other items such as buckles, toe taps, a nice early heated iron, etc. In two days (really just one full day and one half day) I've dug 43 buttons from this site including multiple coins and military buttons. With Bill's crazy ending to yesterday, we might have actually broken 100 buttons between the two of us in two hunts (if not it will certainly be close).
We will hopefully get back out there very soon, but with the holidays coming up, time is limited!
HH
Dan
The day started off a little slow as we spread out checking additional areas to no avail. Once we began to work back towards the camp and building sites the finds began to pick up striking first with a nice heel plate. A flat button here and a flat button there along with a plethora of scrap brass and lead. Finally I hit what I thought was going to be another good button. When it popped out of the ground I immediately thought another CS. Instead it was a US Navy button. these pre-civil war navies typically were worn by CS and militia troopers. To fool me even further, the button when dug looked like it was going to be a gem as all I could see was the top portion. Once the cleaning process began I noticed a horrible push on the face...oh well...still another war period button. I also dug a nice scale weight with great markings (19th century) which made me a happy camper.
The second half of the day began to slow down even while a few finds kept coming. I had probably dug a dozen or more buttons when Bill and I decided to go check out a couple other areas and then potentially head to an entirely different site. It was 2pm and we had to decide, to make matters worse I decided on the "one more lane" mentality and to my surprise it produced a matron head US Large Cent (1816-1839) and then a couple more two piece buttons. Aside from that, another early (18th century) apothecary weight and broken trapezoidal buckle popped up. Now it was 2:45 and we had to make a decision and we made the right one.
We decided to cut one of the two investigative walks out and zero in where I had found a random flat button in a field across the lane during our initial walk. I covered one end and Bill the other...my end provided nothing and I was hastily walking back to Bill to grab him and hit the road when he dug a good sign of early activity. Then did I, and then...we both dug a button at the same time. From there it was on and a race against time as we had only about 90 minutes to dig. Button, button, button and another button. I dug 14 or 15 in that final hour or so of digging along with other odds and ends (a third weight) and Bill came closer to doubling that than not.
In total I dug 27 buttons yesterday, including a CW era navy, a Large Cent, weight scales and plenty of other items such as buckles, toe taps, a nice early heated iron, etc. In two days (really just one full day and one half day) I've dug 43 buttons from this site including multiple coins and military buttons. With Bill's crazy ending to yesterday, we might have actually broken 100 buttons between the two of us in two hunts (if not it will certainly be close).
We will hopefully get back out there very soon, but with the holidays coming up, time is limited!
HH
Dan
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. Glad we stumbled across that little hotspot at the end of the day as its always nice knowing we have a good location to return to. And BTW - when you get those other 2 bullion or apothecary weights cleaned please post some pics. I'm curious what you have there. Until next time ....
