{Sentinel}
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Today's Finds: CANNONS, Coppas, and Eagle I's
Well, as I woke up this morning I was debating on whether I would go metal detecting or go fishing??
HMMM But, my metal detecting urge was getting the better of me and I was wanting to get the monkey off my back 
So DIRT FISHING it was 
A buddy of mine called and said that he was wanting to go detecting as well so we decided on a few spots that we hadn't hit before to any great extent. . As we were heading to the spots, we came upon a nice new field that was being graded for future construction. This field just so happened to sit on one of the two main roads that the Confederate and Union Armies used during their marches up the Peninsula. Well, we stopped, jumped out and began detecting. The heat was blazing 
but I sucked it up and put the coil to the dirt Well, after detecting this little corner in the field for about 2 minutes I got a very strong signal on the ole MXT +75. So, I stuck my buddy, the Predator, into the ground and dug out a plug and to my surprise this little buddy popped out
A model Cannon!!
It may be a Civil War Era casting but more than likely, is probably a Colonial piece as it was on a colonial homesite. So that got the blood pumping after only two minutes with the coil to the dirt. Then back to back, I dug two Very early colonial buttons, another 1600s "Nipple" button and a small colonial flower button. So I was pretty happy with this spot and went on to dig a couple other keepers from it within the following 30 minutes 
We then packed it up and was off to our original destination that we were headed before we were taken off course by the "spirit" of the hunt 
Once we got to this spot, my buddy and I hopped out of the truck. We were parked in a field within the woods in which ran the old Hampton Road that ran from the lower Peninsula all the way up to Richmond. This road as stated above, was one of two main routes used during the Peninsula Campaign by the two armies. Well, there was no time for slackin 
so we went to work. He took one side of the road, and I took the other. We had been da-tect-ing for about 10 minutes when I heard this WONDERFULLL sound explode from my headphones and it sounded like heaven. I looked down and swiped my coil and pinpointed this 'thing' and proceeded to dig it out....well it wasn't very deep and when I unloaded that first plug of dirt, I saw this BEAU-T-FUL "I" within a shield...staring back at me! 
You guys know what that means: EAGLE I 
She is a nice one too, and looks to have been from an overcoat.
Not to be outdone, this beautiful lil COPPA lady from 1830 also wanted to come out and introduce herself to me I DID NOT disappoint, and swept her right up into my arms!!!!
You can see her at the top there!
And this concluded my Sunday of hunting! I was happy; not alot of quantity but some quality items found and in the short time frame of just a couple hours of hunting. You can see in the picture above some other colonial artifacts such as the piece at bottom that looks like some sort of 'pull' for a piece of furniture, or the piece at top left which is full of golden gilt...haven't cleaned it enough to tell what it is yet though![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
Well, I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did/do and will be bringing more for all of my friends on TNet to enjoy, Happy Hunting and KEEP THE PASSION HIGH!
Sentinel
Well, as I woke up this morning I was debating on whether I would go metal detecting or go fishing??
HMMM But, my metal detecting urge was getting the better of me and I was wanting to get the monkey off my back So DIRT FISHING it was A buddy of mine called and said that he was wanting to go detecting as well so we decided on a few spots that we hadn't hit before to any great extent. . As we were heading to the spots, we came upon a nice new field that was being graded for future construction. This field just so happened to sit on one of the two main roads that the Confederate and Union Armies used during their marches up the Peninsula. Well, we stopped, jumped out and began detecting. The heat was blazing but I sucked it up and put the coil to the dirt Well, after detecting this little corner in the field for about 2 minutes I got a very strong signal on the ole MXT +75. So, I stuck my buddy, the Predator, into the ground and dug out a plug and to my surprise this little buddy popped out
A model Cannon!!
It may be a Civil War Era casting but more than likely, is probably a Colonial piece as it was on a colonial homesite. So that got the blood pumping after only two minutes with the coil to the dirt. Then back to back, I dug two Very early colonial buttons, another 1600s "Nipple" button and a small colonial flower button. So I was pretty happy with this spot and went on to dig a couple other keepers from it within the following 30 minutes We then packed it up and was off to our original destination that we were headed before we were taken off course by the "spirit" of the hunt
Once we got to this spot, my buddy and I hopped out of the truck. We were parked in a field within the woods in which ran the old Hampton Road that ran from the lower Peninsula all the way up to Richmond. This road as stated above, was one of two main routes used during the Peninsula Campaign by the two armies. Well, there was no time for slackin so we went to work. He took one side of the road, and I took the other. We had been da-tect-ing for about 10 minutes when I heard this WONDERFULLL sound explode from my headphones and it sounded like heaven. I looked down and swiped my coil and pinpointed this 'thing' and proceeded to dig it out....well it wasn't very deep and when I unloaded that first plug of dirt, I saw this BEAU-T-FUL "I" within a shield...staring back at me!
You guys know what that means: EAGLE I She is a nice one too, and looks to have been from an overcoat.Not to be outdone, this beautiful lil COPPA lady from 1830 also wanted to come out and introduce herself to me
I DID NOT disappoint, and swept her right up into my arms!!!!
You can see her at the top there!
And this concluded my Sunday of hunting! I was happy; not alot of quantity but some quality items found and in the short time frame of just a couple hours of hunting. You can see in the picture above some other colonial artifacts such as the piece at bottom that looks like some sort of 'pull' for a piece of furniture, or the piece at top left which is full of golden gilt...haven't cleaned it enough to tell what it is yet though
Well, I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did/do and will be bringing more for all of my friends on TNet to enjoy, Happy Hunting and KEEP THE PASSION HIGH!
Sentinel
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