Garrett424
Silver Member
- Jun 20, 2014
- 3,164
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- Detector(s) used
- Teknetics Omega 8000
Teknetics Delta 4000,
Deteknix XPointer,
Fiskar's Big Grip Digger & my old Army Trench shovel for the tough jobs
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So I went back to my colonial/early post colonial site and pounded it hard for about four hours.
Unfortunately, no more old coppers showed up but not long into the hunt I found a 2nd old gilted flat button that amazingly, still has most of the gold plating on the inside:
And the front:
I'm always amazed how things seem to come in waves with this hobby. It's almost uncanny sometimes; like something "out there" is guiding me.
Unlike my first flat button, the loop is still intact on this one. There's also some lettering on there. I can make out the word "gilt" but I haven't figured out the rest at this point. I'm too damn tired to mess with it right now but I'm real happy with it.
I dug at least 50 pieces of iron; about 1/2 of which were nails; the rest just miscellaneous hunks of metal of different shapes and sizes. I'm trying to clean the site as I go in the hopes that more coins will reveal themselves.
Along the way I found an old timey looking piece of costume jewelry in two pieces. Luckily, the blue "stone" and it's setting are both still intact. There was also a small buckle (I think ) , also in two pieces but it looks like I found all of it. I thought it was silver at first.
Then I dug a very thin, ornate metallic object but I have no clue what it actually is:
Then another button turned up that says "Foxmoor". I have no clue if it's old or a modern drop. I'm thinkin' modern:
I also dug a few other items, including a tiny lead shoe identical to one I dug in the spring about a half mile from where I found this one. I couldn't believe it. Then there were a few old shell caps, a small metal whatsit and some clad (not shown).
That's about it. No old or rare coins turned up but overall, I enjoyed myself and I added another old flat button with genuine ultra thin gold gilt to the collection. The way I see it, it takes a truly talented artist to lay such a thin coating of gold on something so it's a real treasure.
It was a beautiful day out there too.
Thanks for looking & HH
Unfortunately, no more old coppers showed up but not long into the hunt I found a 2nd old gilted flat button that amazingly, still has most of the gold plating on the inside:
And the front:
I'm always amazed how things seem to come in waves with this hobby. It's almost uncanny sometimes; like something "out there" is guiding me.
Unlike my first flat button, the loop is still intact on this one. There's also some lettering on there. I can make out the word "gilt" but I haven't figured out the rest at this point. I'm too damn tired to mess with it right now but I'm real happy with it.
I dug at least 50 pieces of iron; about 1/2 of which were nails; the rest just miscellaneous hunks of metal of different shapes and sizes. I'm trying to clean the site as I go in the hopes that more coins will reveal themselves.
Along the way I found an old timey looking piece of costume jewelry in two pieces. Luckily, the blue "stone" and it's setting are both still intact. There was also a small buckle (I think ) , also in two pieces but it looks like I found all of it. I thought it was silver at first.
Then I dug a very thin, ornate metallic object but I have no clue what it actually is:
Then another button turned up that says "Foxmoor". I have no clue if it's old or a modern drop. I'm thinkin' modern:
I also dug a few other items, including a tiny lead shoe identical to one I dug in the spring about a half mile from where I found this one. I couldn't believe it. Then there were a few old shell caps, a small metal whatsit and some clad (not shown).
That's about it. No old or rare coins turned up but overall, I enjoyed myself and I added another old flat button with genuine ultra thin gold gilt to the collection. The way I see it, it takes a truly talented artist to lay such a thin coating of gold on something so it's a real treasure.
It was a beautiful day out there too.
Thanks for looking & HH
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Costume jewelry or not, I like that stone. 
