Missouri Battleground Located with Metal Detectors

[daaaveman]

Check it out....

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...052DF66C8CC4B0498625739B0008A0E4?OpenDocument

 

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[Evolution]

Interesting post. The history behind why and where we detect is as interesting as the detecting itself.

 

[civilman1]

Thank God it's privately owned.....I hope they don't give in somehow. Cool story...Thank's and HH!!

 

[{Sentinel}]

Thanks for that story. Good to see new history being found, especially history on the War for Southern Independence!

 

[tsgman]

I read that story before, the Union boy's opened up a few rounds of artillery and the State guard boys took off. The Union boy's always referred to that skirmish as the Booneville races! Really wasn't much of a battle, but it's always great to save relics whenever possible. Kinda funny though because I have contacted Archaeologists before about civil war sites under const. and not once have i ever heard back from them or saw them ever trying to save anything from sites like that. Now if you have a good arrowhead site, that's a different story. I am not bad mouthing them just seems their priorities are a little different than mine.

 

[tymcmurray]

Thanks for the story. You people in MO. aught to be jumpin' all over that place.
Good luck. I imagine Every relic hunter with the means to get there is thinking
the same thing.

 

[mike in pa]

great post, please keep us updated on this story and good luck on some great finds that are sure to come....mike