Last week of 2019

[McCDig]

From three hunts in Baltimore City parks over the past 8 days brought me a first from Druid: an 1852 LC, never dug one there until yesterday. Got a number of firsts from Leakin since I'm a relative 'newbie' to detecting there: buttons, musketballs, lantern parts, even the mouthpiece to a KayWoodie briar pipe ( these are all native finds, nothing from any prior 'planted' hunt).

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[creskol]

Nice batch of goodies to end the year on! Well done!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome job, congrats!

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Nice finds. I drove through Druid last week visiting Johns Hopkins University. Looks like a wide open park to hunt. Congrats

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Hey McD... great stuff! The ring seems very old... any idea of the age of it? Congrats, Ddf.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks DDF. The ring is marked Sterling and has a Victorian look to it. I'd put it at least a hundred years old. It's the second mangled sterling ring from this site; definitely got hit by the bulldozer.

 

[McCDig]

Yes, one of the City's oldest and acres to search. The area where the LC and IHC were found is particularly trashy so I slow my sweep down.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Randy.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks creskol! Park treasures keep coming. Amazing after so many years and so many detectorists, but I had a friend dig an 1858 trime today in the same park I was in two days ago.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Professor! Two of those hunts were solo and the other was with another detectorist. Great weather here in Baltimore to end the year.

 

[A2coins]

Great way to RING in the new year thats really cool Im still looking for my first LC I think you did fantastic this year my friend and next year will be even better. Happy new year Tommy

 

[McCDig]

Happy New Year, Tommy!

I keep my finds during the month in cardboard box. Once the month is over I moved them to a plastic back and store them away, so each new month is met with an empty box. Somehow the finds just keep turning up.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice way to end the year McCdig. Those are some nice old finds.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Trezurehunter. That broken button is a tombac.

 

[xcopperstax]

Finding the large copper in a public park always feels amazing to me!!! Congrats!

 

[BLK HOLE]

Great hunt McDig, that ring is very cool! I had the pleasure of hunting one of your Baltimore parks with 8Reale, it is so cool that you all have older parks to hunt most everything here is off limits.

 

[Relicific]

Great finds

 

[washingtonian]

Very nice! Not gonna find a large cent in any parks around here! Lol. Keep up the good work.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks BLK HOLE! Yes, 8Reale is the Real Deal, great detectorist and knows the parks here.