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ceruleanblue
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It's a rainy day here in Maine, nothing better to do than peruse the forums. My older brother was visiting this weekend so I took him out to a few spots I go around here. Wasn't as productive a visit as I had hoped. We began at an old farmhouse in Wells where, earlier in the spring I had dug a 1942 nickel, 2 Indian Heads (1908, other yet to be determined) and a 1907 Large cent. We came up with only some wheaties and various junk. We then went to an old cemetary....bunch of bottle caps and a couple clad, but it's a vast expanse of old farmland, there has to be some old foundations out there, I will be back. On to a friend's house in Biddeford. The history we got was that the road it was on was originally the railroad bed and the original house was constructed in approx. 1830. We had a field day with wheat pennies, I had dug a dozen or so before we left, I also found a bunch of clad and a child's ring. With all those wheaties, there has to be some silver! Our final destination was in Saco at Thornton Academy (Est. 1811), we only got in about an hour of hunting before the rain came. The place is littered with clad, we probably came up with a few dollars worth in the time we were there.
This reflects most of my outings, the only other notable for this spring is a place I located after viewing an old map of Sanford, Maine at the Library of Congress website (they have some spectacular maps scanned in at high res., you can zoom right in for the details). On this map, I noted an open field area labeled "Cricket Fields". I searched out the location and discovered that in was in an area that was being excavated for new construction, with permission, I detected and came up with a 1916 wheatie and a 1920 Canadian Large cent. (later it yielded another wheatie-1920)
So many places, so little time!!
Hope this wasn't too wordy for my inaugural post, but just wanted to share.
HH All!!
Terri
PS Love reading about all the various finds....keeps my interest piqued!!
This reflects most of my outings, the only other notable for this spring is a place I located after viewing an old map of Sanford, Maine at the Library of Congress website (they have some spectacular maps scanned in at high res., you can zoom right in for the details). On this map, I noted an open field area labeled "Cricket Fields". I searched out the location and discovered that in was in an area that was being excavated for new construction, with permission, I detected and came up with a 1916 wheatie and a 1920 Canadian Large cent. (later it yielded another wheatie-1920)
So many places, so little time!!
Hope this wasn't too wordy for my inaugural post, but just wanted to share.
HH All!!
Terri
PS Love reading about all the various finds....keeps my interest piqued!!
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Lefty
LOL Just kiddin. Welcome.
