BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
The Iron Brigade has been digging lots of holes recently in the ice and snow here. I met up with the buddies today and got a bit of a late start on my hunt after teaching class. Now I know that the posts from myself and the other Iron Brigade diggers have been pretty darned good recently, but this was a shorter hunt (3 hours for me in the freezing temps and snow coming down). So I figure this is a bit of a reality check. :P I did manage a few interesting pieces--nothing spectacular. A flat button, an odd "key" (posted in the "What is it" threads), lantern pieces, assorted buckles, an iron stirrup, and last but not least--this change purse 8) When I first recovered the change purse, I realized what it was (perhaps by connecting on a psychic level with this relic, because it didn't look like anything I had seen before at first!) Here's a photo of it As-Dug:
I put it in a Ziploc bag because I didn't know whether there were any coins inside or not--and I didn't want to risk any further damage to the crumbling purse itself.
When I got it home, I started cleaning it simply by rinsing it with water. Small pieces had already started to come off of it, but I just wanted to get enough of the mud off to see what it looked like:
After cleaning, here's what I had. I found the tiny broken piece of the top of the purse about 15 feet away from the rest of it. Although there were no coins inside it, I really like this fragile little relic.
And here is a photo of the rest of the housesite relics:
Detectorists can't always make spectacular recoveries every hunt, but each shovelfull of dirt holds endless possibility.
Best Wishes,
Buckleboy
The Iron Brigade has been digging lots of holes recently in the ice and snow here. I met up with the buddies today and got a bit of a late start on my hunt after teaching class. Now I know that the posts from myself and the other Iron Brigade diggers have been pretty darned good recently, but this was a shorter hunt (3 hours for me in the freezing temps and snow coming down). So I figure this is a bit of a reality check. :P I did manage a few interesting pieces--nothing spectacular. A flat button, an odd "key" (posted in the "What is it" threads), lantern pieces, assorted buckles, an iron stirrup, and last but not least--this change purse 8) When I first recovered the change purse, I realized what it was (perhaps by connecting on a psychic level with this relic, because it didn't look like anything I had seen before at first!) Here's a photo of it As-Dug:
I put it in a Ziploc bag because I didn't know whether there were any coins inside or not--and I didn't want to risk any further damage to the crumbling purse itself.
When I got it home, I started cleaning it simply by rinsing it with water. Small pieces had already started to come off of it, but I just wanted to get enough of the mud off to see what it looked like:
After cleaning, here's what I had. I found the tiny broken piece of the top of the purse about 15 feet away from the rest of it. Although there were no coins inside it, I really like this fragile little relic.
And here is a photo of the rest of the housesite relics:
Detectorists can't always make spectacular recoveries every hunt, but each shovelfull of dirt holds endless possibility.
Best Wishes,
Buckleboy
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I actually think it might be pretty interesting. I've dug a lot of them, but never any two that were the same...
