Yesterdays Cold Rainy Colonial forage...coins, buttons, broken glass, but not dreams

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My buddy Bill D and I got out yesterday for some more colonial relic hunting. The cold weather and rain could not keep us away as we bundled up and put on our weather gear and made the best of it.

We initially spent some time scouting out some other areas of the property and a return visit to another area on the site that yielded a few finds last fall. That site was mixed with colonial to post-civil war era stuff and not much of it. I managed a few buttons and four coins. 1903 V Nickle, 1888 IH penny, 1865 IH penny and an 1863 IH penny. Not exactly the age I was looking for, but i will take them - at least two of them were pre 1865 - though nothing to write home about.

While surface hunting at the colonial ground zero site - I did manage to dig a nice example of ingenuity at work. This early spoon was broken and folded into an early make-shift funnel. Very unique piece and probably my favorite detected find of the hunt.

Towards the second half of the day we decided to go back to the pit and dig as much as we could - though sifting was impossible being how wet and sloppy everything was. We did OK there, managed about a dozen buttons and some other odds and ends. We located four bottles, all broken - one of the days it will pay off. This pit is late 1700s and there is plenty to piece back together after some sifting. I was happy to locate the other half to my china bowl and many other pieces to other puzzles. The early case gin bottle is almost all there and I feel good about finding the remaining pieces once we sift it out. I keep the bases as they do display relics very nicely. While the glass was broken, my dreams of piecing together some nice finds and locating an intact piece have not wavered.

The rose quartz point was eyeballed while roaming around.

I also proved to bill just how much we missed in our backfill as we dug the majority of the stuff from previously scanned dirt upon the fill in process. At the end of the hunt we decided to surface hunt for a few minutes - one of the targets I dug was a large hunk of silver. When I first cleaned it, I thought it was lead. When I got home and cleaned it, it appears to be silver, and though I wished for it to be a chunk of a big cob like Joey's recent find - I believe it is just a hunk of silver melted down. It does look cut, but it probably was nabbed off for another purpose.

Bill did get the best of me with a nice (small but nice) cut piece of spanish silver. Here it is fresh from the ground and it is a beaut!

HH until the next time.

Dan
 

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That point is killer. The rest is great too. Also liking that little slice of Spanish silver. They seem to elude me in my area. Congrats
 

That was a hardcore hunt for sure Dan. But I had a blast and we both came home with some nice keepers. I really like that spoon converted into a funnel. Very unique and something I've never seen. Did it have any markings? Ready to do it again soon.
 

awesome digs buddy!!
 

Great finds Dan. That's a hearty piece of case bottle. Hopefully you can find the remaining pieces of that and the pottery.
 

Nothing but good, great, and better in that post ! All kinds of fun ! MaineRelic
 

Damn..looks like you guys have a lot of fun when you go hunting !!

Sweet finds.... I gotta try pit digging this summer !!!
 

Great finds guys, always love reading your posts.

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That's a nice relic round up there Dan, that point sure looks good. When I am diving I find those bases and tops from black glass bottles sticking out of the silt often and every now and then they come out complete, looks like you came pretty close with one of yours.
ZDD
 

Nice point...find of the day IMO.

OK Bill's quarter bit is a good find too.

I'd take either.
 

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