Bill D. (VA)
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My bud Dan and I were finally able to get in our first full day of hunting of the new season on Saturday, and made our initial stop at a small but new site that was adjacent to one of our most productive areas from the past couple of years. Even though the crops had been cut it was a difficult site to hunt, and it was hard to find a spot to get the coil to the soil. But we were able to quickly confirm early occupation with a variety of mostly 18th century finds. Just about the very first target I encountered surprisingly turned out to be a cut piece of silver which was a good omen. Less than an hour later Dan tied the score with a nice cut pistareen of his own, but I quickly countered with another to take back the lead in our friendly but intense competition for "colonial silver king". I also recovered a variety of other early artifacts that we typically find on these kind of sites, including another 4 thimbles which seem to heavily populate just about every colonial homesite we hunt. We stayed there until mid-afternoon, and then opted to finish out the day at another of our old sites where the crops had just been cut. We've pounded this place the last 2-3 years, but it always seems to provide a few keepers. I ended up with a few more buttons and buckle pieces, but was quite surprised when a small, monogrammed gold ring appeared in the field that was found in the midst of the heavy iron, black glass and brick frags. It was a very low and broken signal that I was tempted not to dig, but I just had to see what it was that would give that type of a target response. And a small gold ring with a broken band fit the bill exactly. I don't think it has a whole lot of age to it - maybe early 1900s at the very earliest - but it was still a nice way to end the day.
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