First Nevada Ghost town hunt!!

[Carson Coin Master]

[size=13pt]so here's the loot. OK to some of the veterans on here they might find this odd. i have lived in northern Nevada my whole life and have been detecting almost 3 years now, and this is the first time i have ever headed out to an old ghost town. Well reasons being most of them are either next to impossible to find or really difficult to get to, for the terrain is not manageable for most vehicles. well i got a hold of a 4wd and headed to the old town of Como, NV which is about 13 miles N E of Dayton, NV Nevada's first gold discovery. The trail is not to bad but it is just a pain in the rear to get to. Anyway there is parts of the old stamp mill still intact about a 1/2 mile east of the town which i will be heading to next week. and all that is left of the town is a small part of the foundation of the church that once stood and one other stone building everything else is gone or destroyed from a fire last year in 2008. But there sure where a lot of old trash pits. I only covered about a 500 square foot area in the time I was up there. i had to stop for about 45 minutes because it started to rain on me. so there is definitely lots of area still to be covered. So here's what i found nothing really valuable but one item i am kicking myself for accidentally breaking with my trowel. An old Dyottville Glass Works bottle that i accidentally broke the top off mainly because i was not digging the bottle i was digging a signal next to it and hit it by mistake after doing some research on the bottle it turns out to be somewhere between 1860-1871 and in tact they are worth close to $1000 to bad i broke the darn thing. I think this little round thing is a musket ball but not sure i never saw one before and don't know what they look like. a bunch of square nails a percussion cap, the rocks on the left are what look to be arrowhead chippings and well you can see the rest. Believe it or not there was a lot of tin junk to sift through just to find this stuff. those miners where some messy folks. [/size]

 

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[Carson Coin Master]

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[SCMDing]

Nice finds!

Here is a page that has your shotgun headstamp. Someone many have already put this link out there, but here it is anyway!

http://members.shaw.ca/cstein0/umc.htm

Here is a link to the main site, has a lot of headstamps and other things.

http://members.shaw.ca/cartridge-corner/shotgun.htm

 

[rockyredbaron]

don't give up ...looks very promising.. looking forward to more pics Joe !!! Gotta be something good in the flat spot between the trees. don't miss a swing on that area .....go slow !!!!


Rockyredbaron

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