Woodland Detectors
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Low Country Yankee Post digs and a sweet "Fede" Sweetheart/friendship ring
Happy new year folks.
Just getting back from one our South Carolina "Low Country" vacations on one of the beautiful Islands near Savannah GA. And I have to say, it was a beautiful trip with weather in the high 60's to mid 70's. My buddy and fellow treasure netter, rluckadoo, invited me over to his place on a remote Island where Revolutionary and CW presence was prominent at one time. We began our trek detecting a spot that looked promising to me to be somewhat higher ground and "camp friendly" for the troops. The property we detected was private, and we had full permission to search. Laws in South Carolina are nothing to mess with, you'd better have your permission. It wasn't too long I got a signal on my Minelab Etrac that sounded really high toned and solid. The target was deep and gnarled through roots of the native trees that occupy the quiet Island. After a few minutes, I uncovered, what looked to me to be a very old black powder flask skin shown below. After pocketing many very old shotgun husks/hulls, I received another good solid tone that turned out to be a standard Union "3 ringer" Before I hollered at my buddy to head my way, I wanted to be sure I was on to something. Not more than two minutes later in the thick canopy, I dug a real nice eagle button. Scovill~Watterbury Back mark. As my detecting friends know, if I happen to stumble onto anything promising, I will call them over to join in the dig. I sat the Trusty Etrac down and walked...well fast walked
towards Robert who was a good 60 yards North of me. I said to him, " c'mon man!" I think I may have found something. I showed Robert the Button and Lead and his eyes lit up and he said' "man, I have never found one those" my eyes then lit up and I said, "well buddy, your fixin to" 
I showed Robert the spot where I dug the Eagle coat button, we then both rebooted our Etrac's, and a quick noise cancel and proceeded to sweep. It wasn't but a few minutes later I heard Robert say something over my Grey Ghost N.D.T. headphones. I shifted one ear piece over and yelled back, HUH? Robert then said, "It's a button!"
Knowing this was probably his first CW button I sat the machine down and did another fast walk back towards him. I could see the tiny button in his palms and after a close look, indeed! His first Eagle button. We did a brief celebration and went back to the beeping. After digging many iron and unidentified brass objects, I received a faint, but decent tone suggesting something decent might be laying beneath the coil. I dug for a few minutes and after a pulling another cuff button, Cool! I always run my coil over the plug even after I dig a decent relic, just to be sure I didn't miss the target I initially heard. Sure enough, a mid grunt announced over the phones saying, "I'm still here" I pulled my trusty and reliable Detector pro Pistol probe pointer out, and sure enough, the target was at the bottom of the plug. I grabbed a handful of the beautiful moist black soil and sat it to the side. With another quick scan with the pin pointer, a ring folded over. An old ring... I picked up the ring and took a close look. To my surprise, I saw the two right hands shaking suggesting the ring was given to the soldier by his girlfriend/friend as an engagement or friendship/fidelity.. Fede rings, as some are called, have existed since the Roman times, having been a part of Roman or Greek culture, or possible both. They were discovered to be worn often during medieval times.
Irish Claddagh rings belong to a group of rings that are called by the Italian name “Fede”, meaning finger rings, or as some have called them, “Faith” rings. There are several different designs of Fede rings, but the distinguishing characteristic is two clasping hands symbolizing the pledging of love.
The ring is tiny...really tiny. It fits on my 9 month old's thumb. To me, this would have to be one of my more special relics ever dug in a camp. Not that's it's valuable or anything, but the story of him bringing it to the location where it was lost. It makes you wonder what happened for him to lose it. He must have been very upset. I really had a great day detecting with my friend, and I hope to be back soon. I know this site will have many, many relics to come in the future, judging by that that 3 hour hunt that afternoon. Another great metal detecting memory to add to my list.
The Eagle Cuff button on the right in the third photo is rlukadoo's first CW button
Happy new year folks.
Just getting back from one our South Carolina "Low Country" vacations on one of the beautiful Islands near Savannah GA. And I have to say, it was a beautiful trip with weather in the high 60's to mid 70's. My buddy and fellow treasure netter, rluckadoo, invited me over to his place on a remote Island where Revolutionary and CW presence was prominent at one time. We began our trek detecting a spot that looked promising to me to be somewhat higher ground and "camp friendly" for the troops. The property we detected was private, and we had full permission to search. Laws in South Carolina are nothing to mess with, you'd better have your permission. It wasn't too long I got a signal on my Minelab Etrac that sounded really high toned and solid. The target was deep and gnarled through roots of the native trees that occupy the quiet Island. After a few minutes, I uncovered, what looked to me to be a very old black powder flask skin shown below. After pocketing many very old shotgun husks/hulls, I received another good solid tone that turned out to be a standard Union "3 ringer" Before I hollered at my buddy to head my way, I wanted to be sure I was on to something. Not more than two minutes later in the thick canopy, I dug a real nice eagle button. Scovill~Watterbury Back mark. As my detecting friends know, if I happen to stumble onto anything promising, I will call them over to join in the dig. I sat the Trusty Etrac down and walked...well fast walked
towards Robert who was a good 60 yards North of me. I said to him, " c'mon man!" I think I may have found something. I showed Robert the Button and Lead and his eyes lit up and he said' "man, I have never found one those" my eyes then lit up and I said, "well buddy, your fixin to" I showed Robert the spot where I dug the Eagle coat button, we then both rebooted our Etrac's, and a quick noise cancel and proceeded to sweep. It wasn't but a few minutes later I heard Robert say something over my Grey Ghost N.D.T. headphones. I shifted one ear piece over and yelled back, HUH? Robert then said, "It's a button!" Knowing this was probably his first CW button I sat the machine down and did another fast walk back towards him. I could see the tiny button in his palms and after a close look, indeed! His first Eagle button. We did a brief celebration and went back to the beeping. After digging many iron and unidentified brass objects, I received a faint, but decent tone suggesting something decent might be laying beneath the coil. I dug for a few minutes and after a pulling another cuff button, Cool! I always run my coil over the plug even after I dig a decent relic, just to be sure I didn't miss the target I initially heard. Sure enough, a mid grunt announced over the phones saying, "I'm still here" I pulled my trusty and reliable Detector pro Pistol probe pointer out, and sure enough, the target was at the bottom of the plug. I grabbed a handful of the beautiful moist black soil and sat it to the side. With another quick scan with the pin pointer, a ring folded over. An old ring... I picked up the ring and took a close look. To my surprise, I saw the two right hands shaking suggesting the ring was given to the soldier by his girlfriend/friend as an engagement or friendship/fidelity.. Fede rings, as some are called, have existed since the Roman times, having been a part of Roman or Greek culture, or possible both. They were discovered to be worn often during medieval times.
Irish Claddagh rings belong to a group of rings that are called by the Italian name “Fede”, meaning finger rings, or as some have called them, “Faith” rings. There are several different designs of Fede rings, but the distinguishing characteristic is two clasping hands symbolizing the pledging of love.
The ring is tiny...really tiny. It fits on my 9 month old's thumb. To me, this would have to be one of my more special relics ever dug in a camp. Not that's it's valuable or anything, but the story of him bringing it to the location where it was lost. It makes you wonder what happened for him to lose it. He must have been very upset. I really had a great day detecting with my friend, and I hope to be back soon. I know this site will have many, many relics to come in the future, judging by that that 3 hour hunt that afternoon. Another great metal detecting memory to add to my list.
The Eagle Cuff button on the right in the third photo is rlukadoo's first CW button
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I found one of those ring's before but it was silver and I found it on a Yankee Tot-Lot,go figure !!Look's like some pretty country.....nice dig's Mike
