This weekend my detecting buds and I made a trip north to a town site that we have been researching for a couple of months. The town was basically deserted somewhere around 1870 so we were hoping to find a site with very little to no modern trash to get in the way. Saturday morning after talking to a few local farmers the town site was located, permission was granted and the hunt began. The first lot we searched was full of broom straw about waist high and was very difficult to work in. According to our research this lot was the site of the court house, a school and a store or two. We all were finding nails and lots of iron. but we finally located a few good finds. The lot produced 2 flat buttons, a couple of small buckles, a new dime and a 1837 liberty seated half dime. The next site was an old chuch site. This location had been heavily disturbed by heavy equipment and lots of gravel so it did not take long to move on to some house sites. In all we searched three house sites that by all indications were 1920-1950 era. The better finds here were a WWII metal, a mexican 200Peso coin, a mercury dime, and several wheat pennies.
A future trip will be made back to the first site when we can arrange to get the lot cut, there are diffinately more good silver coins there waiting to be discovered.
A future trip will be made back to the first site when we can arrange to get the lot cut, there are diffinately more good silver coins there waiting to be discovered.
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