1005 Buttons..........

CRUSADER · Apr 15, 2009

Dad & I have just broken the 1000 button mark for this year. I only started counting on request of Woody (this year), & its been quite fun finding out.

Picture 1 shows a small area of future bird cover, tiny piece of ploughed land which took 1.5 hours for us to cover. Not much other than a lead piece with IM (pre 18th century JM), no idea what it is.

Picture 2 is 1.5 hours on the land we have been doing recently. This was our last day, as we just noticed a crop coming through.
1 scrappy
Broken buckle
bits....

What can we do this weekend :icon_scratch:

civil war hunter · Apr 15, 2009

cool.

crazyjarhead · Apr 15, 2009

1000 old buttons? I (we) will never see that many in a lifetime of detecting. Wish I could hunt where you are Crusader

shaun7 · Apr 15, 2009

whats the thing next to the buckle, with the pattern on? looks old!

CRUSADER · Apr 15, 2009

shaun7 said:
whats the thing next to the buckle, with the pattern on? looks old!

no idea, its not very old (Victy) suspender buckle thingy :icon_scratch:

shaun7 · Apr 15, 2009

oh yeah! looked bigger $:-\$

allen · Apr 15, 2009

take this weekend off and drink a cold brew... :thumbsup:

CRUSADER · Apr 15, 2009

allen said:
take this weekend off and drink a cold brew...

I do that anyway, but I guess I could drink for six hours instead.

allen · Apr 15, 2009

even if you drank for 6 hours, you
could still out detect most of us..

shaun7 · Apr 15, 2009

CRUSADER said:
allen said:

take this weekend off and drink a cold brew...

Click to expand...

I do that anyway, but I guess I could drink for six hours instead.

hey, don't knock it!

PA · Apr 15, 2009

hi cursader,

i once found nearly 1000 buttons in 1 year but i live in the usa not england. i consider mine a outstanding acomplishment. go get more now. :thumbsup:

henry

The Seeker · Apr 15, 2009

Post all the buttons, we would like to see them...........Nice!!!

ModernMiner · Apr 15, 2009

Cru,
FANTASTIC jobs on the buttons, and just think, you're just getting started. :thumbsup:

Congrats,
MM

Iron Patch · Apr 16, 2009

I counted two different years and dug about a 1000 each time. Your % military don't seem to be as good as here, of course you also dig many that date before they began to be marked. I'd say I was about 1 military for every 10 plain but these last couple of years I don't think were as good, certainly don't have the count not being out as much.

lairmo · Apr 16, 2009

Sewing 'thread' must have really sucked back then for all these buttons to have come off..... :tard:

CRUSADER · Apr 16, 2009

Iron Patch said:
I counted two different years and dug about a 1000 each time. Your % military don't seem to be as good as here, of course you also dig many that date before they began to be marked. I'd say I was about 1 military for every 10 plain but these last couple of years I don't think were as good, certainly don't have the count not being out as much.

The military I find are mostly on three fields where the ratio is 50% or higher, as they were military related dumps. The normal ratio is about 1 in 20. I only actually keep about 1 in 10 overall.