time4me
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I had plans of hitting my favorite campground again today after dropping the kids off at school and hitting the gym for an hour. I was a bit worried though when I looked at the dashboard thermometer on our way to my son's school...
Luckily it had warmed up considerably
when I got out of the gym...
So I made the drive out to the campground area, and put on my warm shoes and some gloves, and I even came prepared with knee pads this time. About 10 minutes into the hunt I had some silver shining up at me from my hole - a 1963 rosie...
About an hour into my hunt I got another high flutey silver sound from the E-Trac, and had another silver on the side of the hole - a 1945 S merc...
I dug a lot of clad, and quite a bit of junk, and then I got a good deep signal. About 8 inches down I pulled out this big round heavy item, that I couldn't wait to get home and clean - I could tell it was a very old neckerchief slide, but couldn't make out all of the words on it...
I was extra excited, as the metal loop was still attached to the back, encased in dirt - normally they rust off of slides that are this old. I wasn't going to try getting any of that dirt off until I got home and could do it VERY carefully with a toothpick...
And then I dug a much more recent slide...
Here is the total haul for the 2 and a half hours I was out today...
Here are some of the bigger junk items...
And here are some of the keepers that I wanted to clean up and have a closer look at...
At one point I thought I might have found a watch, as two pieces of leather came out of the hole that looked like pieces of a watch strap, but the metal item that came out was a round silver colored item that looked like it had a connector on the back at one point that rusted away. Since this was found very near where I had found some other bridle items the other day, including the US Cavalry bridle rosette, I am wondering if this is just a plain rosette from a horse bridle and the leather items are pieces of a bridle...
These are the coins I pulled out today, with the two silver dimes on the lower right...
Cleaning my finds is one of my favorite parts of the whole metal detecing process. This first item is a cool emblem off of a water heater. Google searching told me that HOMART was a brand of appliances sold by Sears. This emblem looks like it is from the 50's or 60's to me...
And here is that old neckerchief slide that I found 8 inches deep, all cleaned up - front and back. It is from Nassau County Council (New York), and says "CAMPING" in the middle with the names of the two campsites used by the Nassau County Council - "ONTEORA" and "WAUWEPEX". I'm guessing this slide is from the 1950's...
This is a button I found - front and back, that I think is just a fashion button, but it still looks pretty cool...
And one more little Boy Scouts item in the last few minutes of my hunt...
It's funny - I haven't found a Mercury Head dime in several years, and today I found my second one in a week - I got one last Friday also in this same location. Here are both of today's silvers cleaned up a bit...
Again, I'm sorry for the lengthy post and all of the pictures - I hope I didn't bore you all too much.
Happy Hunting, and stay warm!!!!
Jim
Luckily it had warmed up considerably
when I got out of the gym...
So I made the drive out to the campground area, and put on my warm shoes and some gloves, and I even came prepared with knee pads this time. About 10 minutes into the hunt I had some silver shining up at me from my hole - a 1963 rosie...
About an hour into my hunt I got another high flutey silver sound from the E-Trac, and had another silver on the side of the hole - a 1945 S merc...
I dug a lot of clad, and quite a bit of junk, and then I got a good deep signal. About 8 inches down I pulled out this big round heavy item, that I couldn't wait to get home and clean - I could tell it was a very old neckerchief slide, but couldn't make out all of the words on it...
I was extra excited, as the metal loop was still attached to the back, encased in dirt - normally they rust off of slides that are this old. I wasn't going to try getting any of that dirt off until I got home and could do it VERY carefully with a toothpick...
And then I dug a much more recent slide...
Here is the total haul for the 2 and a half hours I was out today...
Here are some of the bigger junk items...
And here are some of the keepers that I wanted to clean up and have a closer look at...
At one point I thought I might have found a watch, as two pieces of leather came out of the hole that looked like pieces of a watch strap, but the metal item that came out was a round silver colored item that looked like it had a connector on the back at one point that rusted away. Since this was found very near where I had found some other bridle items the other day, including the US Cavalry bridle rosette, I am wondering if this is just a plain rosette from a horse bridle and the leather items are pieces of a bridle...
These are the coins I pulled out today, with the two silver dimes on the lower right...
Cleaning my finds is one of my favorite parts of the whole metal detecing process. This first item is a cool emblem off of a water heater. Google searching told me that HOMART was a brand of appliances sold by Sears. This emblem looks like it is from the 50's or 60's to me...
And here is that old neckerchief slide that I found 8 inches deep, all cleaned up - front and back. It is from Nassau County Council (New York), and says "CAMPING" in the middle with the names of the two campsites used by the Nassau County Council - "ONTEORA" and "WAUWEPEX". I'm guessing this slide is from the 1950's...
This is a button I found - front and back, that I think is just a fashion button, but it still looks pretty cool...
And one more little Boy Scouts item in the last few minutes of my hunt...
It's funny - I haven't found a Mercury Head dime in several years, and today I found my second one in a week - I got one last Friday also in this same location. Here are both of today's silvers cleaned up a bit...
Again, I'm sorry for the lengthy post and all of the pictures - I hope I didn't bore you all too much.
Happy Hunting, and stay warm!!!!
Jim
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. Congrats on the finds and "braving the cold" - that Homart badge looks terrific... 
