Almost Skunked... Odd Pewter Button and Musketball

[DeArmitt Pa]

Well as you can tell from the title we didn't find much. The owner was not present, but we have had the previous ok to hunt his property, but its been about a year so we stayed out of his yard and went into the field. There is lots of junk and iron in the field, but this is the same field that produced my very cruddy 1786 Connecticut Copper. I got a odd looking pewter button and Bedford Bob got a musket ball. I threw a penny in for size. The button itself is actually slightly smaller than a dime. The button has some sort of a design on the front, while the back you can see the casting line. The shank is huge for the size of the button.

Hopefully next weekend will be a much better hunt. My father-in-law and I have been invited to do a historical hunt for the local museum. The site is suppose to be of French and Indian War age and a battle was fought here. In all there are 6, including us, detectorists and 1 or 2 people to mark down the finds and coordinates of each find. Please do not ask where because I am not allowed to give this information out. We will not be allowed to keep any of the finds but we will be photographing the finds as to show everybody here.

So wish us luck and I hope we have somthing good to show you next weekend.

 

[Iron Patch]

When I see buttons like that I know I'm at a good site... so I hope to see many soon!