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[relic lover]

Went back to my boyhood home for the last day of deer season I filled my freezer. And after that I did a little detecting and I got the first large cent that I have ever dug from this wonderful historic place I grew up in. This place has been very hard to hunt I have found very few really old things. A lot of landscaping had been done and there is a incredible amount of metal in the ground with the place being occupied for 250 years. I regret my shooting hobby of my youth I must have dug up a million shell casings. I don't think I'll get a date off the large cent but I don't care. It was part of a coin spill with an 1862 fat indian. I'm getting another spotty signal in the hole I know there is something else down there but I ran out of time. We just had a good rain so I'm hoping to go back and find out what my mystery item is. Enjoy the pics this log cabin I grew up in was built in the mid to late 1700s.

 

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[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on going home and pulling those 2 cents. You go there often?

 

[relic lover]

I don't hunt it very much because it is such a pain. I have so many other old sites that were abandoned around the turn of the century and don't have all of the junk masking the goodies. But now that I have filled most of my bucket list at those places I am turning my attention back to this place now that my skill set is up. I tried a new tactic which paid off stayed away from the house and hunted the edges of the woods. My mom said where I found these coins was were the old carriage house used to be. These coins as crusty as they are are special to me I certainly had to hunt harder for these than anything I've ever found. I feel like it is a new place now is that I have some other areas other than around the house that are hotspots. There's five acres total so I'm going to concentrate on this place from now on. Also somewhere up on that hill that I have been looking for all my life for the site of the original homestead from the early 17 hundreds that was burned out by the Indians. The men were all away at the grist mill the Indians attacked and killed the mother and one of the daughters they bury them where they fell there's a little cemetery there but you cannot read the stones anymore. When the men got back from the mill and found their family slaughtered they were glad to find that the two youngest children had hid in the cornfield and survived. The Indians took one of the daughters and a baby with them to Fort Duquesne area which is now Pittsburgh about 30 miles away. The men organized a rescue party and dressed as Indians went all the way there and got them back believe it or not. Anyway I have been trying like hell to find that original cabin site I would kill to have a relic from there of any kind. But it was inhabited for a very short time and I have not been able to find any sign of it.

 

[relic lover]

One thing's for sure I'm going back tomorrow to find out what that last signal was. These coins were very deep. When I first opened up the whole I could not find anything with my pin pointer I actually gave up and fill the hole back in and ran my coil over it again and the signal was still there so I dug at all up again and found the large cent. Then I got another signal that sounded like a shotgun shell so believe it or not I wandered off and detected elsewhere for a while before I came to my senses and went back to take the shotgun shell which of course turned out to be the fatty. The last signal in that hole is not totally repeatable but it's a high tone. I cannot wait to find out what it is.

 

[Cletus]

thats a Awesome find and story!!
love the log home!! must have been a great place to grow up.
Congrats and hope you dig many more great relics.

 

[relic lover]

Thanks, growing up there and hearing those stories definitely gave me an appreciation for history.

 

[treblehunter]

Very nice you could find stuff at your family home

 

[relic lover]

Thanks I'm super thrilled I have been skunked at this place more than any other site I've ever hunted. I can't tell you how thrilled I am that it was a pocket spill I wound up finding. But I am now determined to hunt every inch of the place

 

[relic lover]

I've got a spot picked out between the house and the Spring House when I get some time I'm going to dig up every signal out of it it's about 20 by 30 feet and has about a hundred thousand signals

 

[releventchair]

Congrats on the season success, and the special homestead huntin too.
What a history,including age...
Good huntin to ya. Don't know how much,(thickness) or how many charcoal layers are out there but you might find one,even if thin on original cabin site...
Springhouse had to be a magnet on hot days to kids that were granted a minute or two to take a break.. ,in addition to it's normal functions.

 

[relic lover]

Thanks, the person who wrote the historical account of the Indian attack lived in one of the other log cabins in the area and he said that the remains of the cabin was nothing but a black stain upon the plowed field and was a constant reminder of the horror that occurred there. So I'm guessing a century of plowing or more has obliterated any sign. And what was once fields is now woods but that will never stop me from looking

 

[beez0404]

The coins are great of course, but I LOVE that log cabin!!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the LC. That looks like a great place to have grown up in & to now be able to Treasure Hunt.

 

[sutphin]

BOY RELIC HUNTER THAT A GOOD SITE YOU HAVE THERE . IS THE OTHER OUT BUILDING THE SPRINGHOUSE?? MAN I WOULD BURN THEM WOODS UP DETECTING LORD KNOWS WHATS HIDDING OUT THERE AND , PLEASE ALL THAT HUNT DURING ANY HUNTING SEASON WEAR A BLAZE ORANGE VEST, THIS SHOULD BE A ITEM NO ONE WOULD LEAVE HOME WITHOUT . NOT A SERMON JUST A SAFTY THOUGHT .... NICE FINDS .