This is it, this is the spot I've been searching for all 2020! I seem to find just one spot like this a year where everything comes together perfectly. Colonial homestead that's not buried by brush or developed on, soil that's kind to coppers, target rich, and best of all never been hunted...
Yup, just sitting pretty wedged between some rocks in an old foundation:
Didn't even need the shovel, I just pulled two of the huge slate slabs apart and it fell out of the crack. Based on the signal I was expecting some iron sheet, and when I first picked it up I thought it was instead...
I'm absolutely floored; I would have never expected to find so much at this site! Just a little background first: I met with a local historian on Saturday who was a friend of a friend. We had an absolutely great time swapping maps and talking about local lore and stories. He has this...
I had two goals for this detecting year and this is one of them! I hiked to a new site on Sunday and literally the third hole I dug was this:
It was only four inches down in some nice clay soil which I think is why it's so well preserved. I hadn't even decided if the site had been hunted...