Bill D. (VA)
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Last Friday's colonial hunt and pit dig with Joey
Joey burned another day of leave to get together for a road trip to a neighboring county to a site not far from where I dug the Lord Baltimore sixpence a couple of months back. It was the location of a colonial tobacco warehouse, and we had high expectations for the site. We had previously walked the fields next to the yard that contained the early warehouse, but we found very little outside of Joey's cob. But we stopped by the owner's house and secured permission to hunt the yard, and couldn't wait to get in there as the huge oak trees that graced the yard had to be at least 300 years old. But as is the case many times, the sandy soil had allowed the goodies to sink out of detector range as was confirmed when both of us dug memorial pennies at about 10". At that point we decided to head back over to an old site where we had discovered recently that the colonial pit we had dug there last year extended quite a bit further than originally thought. So we probed out good spots and started our excavations. Both holes were full of brick and oyster shells down to the 3-4 ft level, and some pottery, glass, animal bones and a couple pipe stems were also mixed in. It wasn't quite what we were looking for, but the pit is quite expansive and we'll definitely be going back and hopefully get into a more productive area next time. We finished out the day hunting in the adjacent field using our new machines with the 5" coils using FA mode and squeezed out a few more buttons and tacks. Can't always come home with a hand-full of Spanish silver, but I still had a great time working up a good sweat in the pit, which for me is more fun than detecting.
Joey burned another day of leave to get together for a road trip to a neighboring county to a site not far from where I dug the Lord Baltimore sixpence a couple of months back. It was the location of a colonial tobacco warehouse, and we had high expectations for the site. We had previously walked the fields next to the yard that contained the early warehouse, but we found very little outside of Joey's cob. But we stopped by the owner's house and secured permission to hunt the yard, and couldn't wait to get in there as the huge oak trees that graced the yard had to be at least 300 years old. But as is the case many times, the sandy soil had allowed the goodies to sink out of detector range as was confirmed when both of us dug memorial pennies at about 10". At that point we decided to head back over to an old site where we had discovered recently that the colonial pit we had dug there last year extended quite a bit further than originally thought. So we probed out good spots and started our excavations. Both holes were full of brick and oyster shells down to the 3-4 ft level, and some pottery, glass, animal bones and a couple pipe stems were also mixed in. It wasn't quite what we were looking for, but the pit is quite expansive and we'll definitely be going back and hopefully get into a more productive area next time. We finished out the day hunting in the adjacent field using our new machines with the 5" coils using FA mode and squeezed out a few more buttons and tacks. Can't always come home with a hand-full of Spanish silver, but I still had a great time working up a good sweat in the pit, which for me is more fun than detecting.
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Really appreciate your detailed descriptions of what you guys are doing & the wonderful site photos! 
Your adventures are fascinating to follow online whether or not you dig what you expect each time. 
Andi
