HomeGuardDan
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I am the Grand ColoniIal Wizard!!!!! Yesterday's digs.
Bill and I got out yesterday for another day in the field. We started the day off with a friend to check a potentially new site out. We knew an 1803 site was on the adjacent property and that a civil war era house was in the field we were checking. After about an hour or so we decided that the site was just a little more modern than we had hoped for. That being said, I think Patrick will do good there in time as a few early flat buttons and a broken 1790's buckle surfaced.
On we trekked to one of our older but reliable colonial sites to save the half day. Bill and I had an appointment meet up with one of our landowners to bless the winter digging season. We dug here for about 3 hours or so each of us recovered a few flat buttons, colonial tacks, musket balls, etc. Soon it was time and we parted ways and Bill and I made our way to meet with the nice owner. After some discussion we were given the "go ahead" for the season and we anxiously went to a new field we had not been on yet. We had high hopes here and were very disappointed as not a single signal surfaced that was of until the GRAND COLONIAL WIZARD surfaced. I have to tell you, when I first saw the large silver looking disk pop up with pillars on it, I had a slight level of enthusiasm, until I lifted it up and felt how light it was. The reverse showed a wizard of some sort and after cleaning, it is some sort of a tin alloy toy medallion (probably from the 50's or later).
We quickly packed up and went to "ole reliable" on the property. We had 3 or 4 hours of daylight left and we decided to head to a field that we had not been to in a year (these three fields all had plenty of colonial goodies in them over the years). It started slow, but then picked up as buttons began to pop up frequently for the two of us. My better button find was the tombac spun oval cuff button with a starburst engraving. Found nearby was a typical cuff sized tombac button with a starburst. These guys must have liked that design as I believe Bill found one as well and I began to remember the abundance that came from that site over the years.
All in all, it was not a great day but far from pitiful as well with 13 keeper buttons, a pile of lead shot and musket balls along with other odds and ends. I might keep the grand ole wizard around for a while as he might yet bring good luck to me!
HH
Dan
Bill and I got out yesterday for another day in the field. We started the day off with a friend to check a potentially new site out. We knew an 1803 site was on the adjacent property and that a civil war era house was in the field we were checking. After about an hour or so we decided that the site was just a little more modern than we had hoped for. That being said, I think Patrick will do good there in time as a few early flat buttons and a broken 1790's buckle surfaced.
On we trekked to one of our older but reliable colonial sites to save the half day. Bill and I had an appointment meet up with one of our landowners to bless the winter digging season. We dug here for about 3 hours or so each of us recovered a few flat buttons, colonial tacks, musket balls, etc. Soon it was time and we parted ways and Bill and I made our way to meet with the nice owner. After some discussion we were given the "go ahead" for the season and we anxiously went to a new field we had not been on yet. We had high hopes here and were very disappointed as not a single signal surfaced that was of until the GRAND COLONIAL WIZARD surfaced. I have to tell you, when I first saw the large silver looking disk pop up with pillars on it, I had a slight level of enthusiasm, until I lifted it up and felt how light it was. The reverse showed a wizard of some sort and after cleaning, it is some sort of a tin alloy toy medallion (probably from the 50's or later).
We quickly packed up and went to "ole reliable" on the property. We had 3 or 4 hours of daylight left and we decided to head to a field that we had not been to in a year (these three fields all had plenty of colonial goodies in them over the years). It started slow, but then picked up as buttons began to pop up frequently for the two of us. My better button find was the tombac spun oval cuff button with a starburst engraving. Found nearby was a typical cuff sized tombac button with a starburst. These guys must have liked that design as I believe Bill found one as well and I began to remember the abundance that came from that site over the years.
All in all, it was not a great day but far from pitiful as well with 13 keeper buttons, a pile of lead shot and musket balls along with other odds and ends. I might keep the grand ole wizard around for a while as he might yet bring good luck to me!
HH
Dan
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Edit to add: Don't know why it put that face emticon there. lol
?? I didn't think so. Had a great time as usual.
