Lifes A Garden...Dig IT
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A Little Bit Of 1700's, 1800's, 1900's In Kentucky
Recently have mustered the courage to start asking permission for various sites such as large farms, old homes, and so on and am pretty excited. I recently gained permission of a farm that was a good prospect for Civil War and Colonial digs.
Out in the middle of nowhere my brother NovaTreasure digs a 1787 New Jersey Copper coin 
. Pretty unusual for this region and a great find.
Last year he got permission for a hunt at a cornfield and asked me along for the day. It lead to my first Colonial Era "Tombac" button (minus the shank). In the last several days I have been hunting an old home and property and have come across several cool finds. My wife went with me today and we hunted for about 4 hours.
I'm not not done with this location yet but am interested in the mixture of finds it has produced so far. I still believe there are more goodies to come. Lot of trash and iron littered throughout the grounds due to many years of being occupied. Thus far some of the more interesting finds is a perfect Colonial Era "Tombac" button in perfect shape with shank intact
(yay, got one with shank now), a large flat button (shank missing) "age unknown", a .35 musket ball (my first), an old stirrup (my first), an old horseshoe (always found pieces but never a whole one before, a 1917D Wheatie, 1934 Wheatie, a small pewter/brass buckle, and some sort of hair bret/brooch??
Recently have mustered the courage to start asking permission for various sites such as large farms, old homes, and so on and am pretty excited. I recently gained permission of a farm that was a good prospect for Civil War and Colonial digs.
Out in the middle of nowhere my brother NovaTreasure digs a 1787 New Jersey Copper coin . Pretty unusual for this region and a great find. Last year he got permission for a hunt at a cornfield and asked me along for the day. It lead to my first Colonial Era "Tombac" button (minus the shank). In the last several days I have been hunting an old home and property and have come across several cool finds. My wife went with me today and we hunted for about 4 hours.
I'm not not done with this location yet but am interested in the mixture of finds it has produced so far. I still believe there are more goodies to come. Lot of trash and iron littered throughout the grounds due to many years of being occupied. Thus far some of the more interesting finds is a perfect Colonial Era "Tombac" button in perfect shape with shank intact
(yay, got one with shank now), a large flat button (shank missing) "age unknown", a .35 musket ball (my first), an old stirrup (my first), an old horseshoe (always found pieces but never a whole one before, a 1917D Wheatie, 1934 Wheatie, a small pewter/brass buckle, and some sort of hair bret/brooch??
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