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  1. Relics and a Pretty Penny. 1683 Mass Property

    Hi friends, Hope you all enjoyed the weekend. John and I metal detected for a couple of hours today, and found a few items. A gorgeous gold gilded flat button, nice musketball, an 1899 Indianhead penny, what looks like a shaving razor, and a cute buckle. We also found a bizarre piece of...
  2. MUSKETBALL #5 - French Charleville musketballs and other calibers - NC

    A faint signal turned out to be a 5th musketball located on a militia campsite in northern Wake County (Wake Forest/Rolesville area) of NC. Interestingly enough, when the musketball was being excavated from the hole, out popped a small triangular arrowhead made of rhyolite. That was a nice...
  3. NC Militia campsite finds - Rolesville Revolution - Artifact HIGHLIGHTS

    These finds are from an 18th century militia campsite found four years ago along a creekbed with large granite outcroppings near the Wake Forest and Rolesville areas of northern Wake County, NC. I will be sharing a lot more of the pictures, finds, and study in the coming months. Thanks for...
  4. First musket ball

    I was in a old school built in the '40s and the field had been hit by metal detectors hard. In the field I got no good signals. I normally do not dig zinc signals but I really had really good feeling about this one. I figured "What the heck, i'll dig it" Then at 6" the object was out of the...
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