Evolution
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- Upstate NY
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- Whites DFX (with 4x6 shooter DD coil and 12" spider coil), Minelab Rocco 2700. (E-Trac)
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- All Treasure Hunting
I got out for a good hunt today. My brother Tom and my buddy Steve (SteveJG) joined me. We had a couple sites lined up down in Steve's neck of the woods. He lives about 45-50 minutes from me so my brother and I met up with him at 9 AM.
We got our stuff together and were on site about a half hour later. We started at a nice site that has a whole bunch of foundations and dates back to the mid 1800's. I found a few interesting iron relics at this site including an axe head and what appeared to be an old hoe. My next find was a crotal bell.....once again damaged. I still haven't found an intact one yet.
![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
My only other find at this site worth mentioning was a 1910 wheatie.
By now it was pushing noon so we took a lunch break with plans of hitting a second site after lunch. By the way...Thanks Tom for picking up the lunch tab. I owe you bro. After lunch we arrived on our second site. An old map shows two house sites that basically appeared as if they straddled this field. Here is the field.......First picture is my brother Tom and the second pic is my buddy Steve. Both swinging the coils like it was their job.
After a while of hunting this field and not really hitting any good signals we decided to rethink our strategy. We started thinking that the houses may have only appeared to be close to the field on the map but in reality, were a little farther away. Well we changed course. We had the run of the place because the owners were out of town (there is still a house there) so we began to wander over closer to the current house. I picked up several clad coins in the front yard but nothing old. After crossing the front yard I noticed that the owners had tilled up a nice portion of the side yard for a garden (which hasn't been planted yet) This looked like a gold mine to me so I dove in head first.
I hit a few junk items first and then I got a good signal and dug a large flat button. Upon examining it further I noticed a nice floral pattern on the front of it. Soon thereafter I picked up a 72 VDI signal on my DFX. It turned out to be a large copper (holed and lacking any detail) It's definitely a copper. It's much too thick to be a button. Here's a picture of Steve in the tilled garden. Followed by a picture of the second button I found in it....It was literally right on the surface so I snapped a picture of it before I picked it up.
Both buttons and the holed copper..
After another half hour of hunting this area we decided to change locations again. We decided to revisit the site where I found the two coppers earlier this year. (1797 Draped bust large cent and 1809 classic head half cent) I picked up another axe head here and a few other miscellaneous relics including a nice button. I decided to venture into the area where I picked up both coppers last time. I was very soon rewarded with a nice solid 76 signal on my DFX that pinpointed at 5.5 inches. I knew this could be a good target so I dug carefully. When I flipped over the 6 inch plug the coin was right on top of the plug. I picked it up and it was pretty caked with dirt. I thought maybe I had another draped bust largie but then I remembered that it rang up as a 76 VDI. Large cents almost always ring up somewhere in the 82-86 range so I began to think Colonial
I determined a little later after examining the coin and cleaning it off a little that I had a New Jersey Copper with great detail!! Yeah Baby!!! 
Here it is after I got it cleaned up well enough to snap a couple pictures of.
Here are my finds for the day.....first the non-iron ones.
Now the iron relics/junk
Thanks for looking everyone. It was nice to be able to get out and hunt again.
We got our stuff together and were on site about a half hour later. We started at a nice site that has a whole bunch of foundations and dates back to the mid 1800's. I found a few interesting iron relics at this site including an axe head and what appeared to be an old hoe. My next find was a crotal bell.....once again damaged. I still haven't found an intact one yet.
My only other find at this site worth mentioning was a 1910 wheatie. By now it was pushing noon so we took a lunch break with plans of hitting a second site after lunch. By the way...Thanks Tom for picking up the lunch tab. I owe you bro. After lunch we arrived on our second site. An old map shows two house sites that basically appeared as if they straddled this field. Here is the field.......First picture is my brother Tom and the second pic is my buddy Steve. Both swinging the coils like it was their job.
After a while of hunting this field and not really hitting any good signals we decided to rethink our strategy. We started thinking that the houses may have only appeared to be close to the field on the map but in reality, were a little farther away. Well we changed course. We had the run of the place because the owners were out of town (there is still a house there) so we began to wander over closer to the current house. I picked up several clad coins in the front yard but nothing old. After crossing the front yard I noticed that the owners had tilled up a nice portion of the side yard for a garden (which hasn't been planted yet) This looked like a gold mine to me so I dove in head first.
I hit a few junk items first and then I got a good signal and dug a large flat button. Upon examining it further I noticed a nice floral pattern on the front of it. Soon thereafter I picked up a 72 VDI signal on my DFX. It turned out to be a large copper (holed and lacking any detail) It's definitely a copper. It's much too thick to be a button. Here's a picture of Steve in the tilled garden. Followed by a picture of the second button I found in it....It was literally right on the surface so I snapped a picture of it before I picked it up.Both buttons and the holed copper..
After another half hour of hunting this area we decided to change locations again. We decided to revisit the site where I found the two coppers earlier this year. (1797 Draped bust large cent and 1809 classic head half cent) I picked up another axe head here and a few other miscellaneous relics including a nice button. I decided to venture into the area where I picked up both coppers last time. I was very soon rewarded with a nice solid 76 signal on my DFX that pinpointed at 5.5 inches. I knew this could be a good target so I dug carefully. When I flipped over the 6 inch plug the coin was right on top of the plug. I picked it up and it was pretty caked with dirt. I thought maybe I had another draped bust largie but then I remembered that it rang up as a 76 VDI. Large cents almost always ring up somewhere in the 82-86 range so I began to think Colonial
I determined a little later after examining the coin and cleaning it off a little that I had a New Jersey Copper with great detail!! Yeah Baby!!! Here it is after I got it cleaned up well enough to snap a couple pictures of. Here are my finds for the day.....first the non-iron ones.
Now the iron relics/junk
Thanks for looking everyone. It was nice to be able to get out and hunt again.
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but I didn't find any today. I just made a post of what I found today (not much). Thanks for the response.
Great pics of your hunting area and of that old coppa in your plug!!
