silversweeper
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- Swampeast Missouri
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- Minelab Etrac, CTX 3030
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- All Treasure Hunting
Over the past few months I've been scouting some land owned by a couple of local farmers. Both farms lay along a creek that figured prominently in our area's "Colonial" history, so I knew there would be some spots where there had to have been cabins built by settlers, sharecroppers, and/or slaves, as well as quite possibly some Civil War campsites. So far I've not found any big sites but a few smaller ones have yielded some keepers for my collection(s). The latest hunt was on a ridge I had eyed before thinking there might be some Native American artifacts there as well as historic relics. I hit it for an hour or two (wading around in the mud) on Sunday and found the one 58 cal 3 ringer, some assorted pistol round balls and that was about it. But it was a quick hunt because I had to hike in from about a mile around the creek, branches, and muddy fields. The 3 ringer really got my hopes up when I found it after only about 20 minutes in my destination field. It appears to be an expended shot just barely deformed on the nose. Thank goodness the land owner invited me to go down past his house the next day rather than walking in from the back. (He also invited me to take along home a young coon he'd found frozen in his watering tank...said it would make a great coonskin cap for my son. But that's another story.) On one end of the ridge I started seeing flakes from worked flint/stone so I put my detector down and walked a few rows. Ended up with the one nice little arrowhead and several pieces. The rest of the field was pretty sparse in targets so I made my way down to one edge by the creek where I'd hit a target rich spot the day before. Mostly iron/nails there but concentrating on that area netted me the broken spur piece, the kerosene lamp parts, the silver plated pocket watch (that sucker was every bit of 12 inches deep in the wet soil, was a faint silver sound on my CTX that I had on manual sensitivity of 27), the 2 broken doll legs, a brass "what's-it", and other odds and ends. Also found there was my find of the day, an 1886 Seated dime in very good condition and with a strike error having the right side struck deeper and slightly off center. Unfortunately it does have a few plow/disc rubs on it (not really noticeable except in the right light at an angle). Any one have ideas on the brass piece that has the round end on it and holes? The hole in the side of the round part, and the smaller hole in the very end, are both threaded. The slot in the body of the piece suggests to me that it might have possibly been part of a large spigot/barrel tap
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Also included is a picture of a few finds I found in different spots around the farm. The one general service CW button came from what may prove to be a good site to hit when they get the rye out later this year. The top of that ridge is all planted. I found that button, the back of a cuff, lots of pistol balls, the parasol part, and some other assorted pieces on one side where they ran out of seed and didn't plant. The drilled large cent came from a cabin site that dates to early-mid 1800's, the owner's grandparents bought that home in the 1890's and he was born there. The building itself has been moved to another site. Lots of trash there but will get some more keepers out of it before I'm done. OH....and I did take the little coon along. Have to admit though that I stopped on the way home and tossed it in a dumpster.....my son doesn't need a coonskin cap that bad....lol.
??Also included is a picture of a few finds I found in different spots around the farm. The one general service CW button came from what may prove to be a good site to hit when they get the rye out later this year. The top of that ridge is all planted. I found that button, the back of a cuff, lots of pistol balls, the parasol part, and some other assorted pieces on one side where they ran out of seed and didn't plant. The drilled large cent came from a cabin site that dates to early-mid 1800's, the owner's grandparents bought that home in the 1890's and he was born there. The building itself has been moved to another site. Lots of trash there but will get some more keepers out of it before I'm done. OH....and I did take the little coon along. Have to admit though that I stopped on the way home and tossed it in a dumpster.....my son doesn't need a coonskin cap that bad....lol.
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