BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Well we finally got out digging after two weeks of nonstop rain here. There is no point in hunting when it rains that much here in Southern Louisiana. I have never seen worse mud in my life. Not what you'd want to break an ankle in. In spite of several days of dry weather, the mud still came close to doing us in today, as you'll see in the video.
At any rate, we got out and Shanegalang walked right up on a Spanish silver just laying right on top of the ground where it had washed out in the heavy rains! It turned out to be a silver-plated counterfeit half real.
After Shanegalang picked up a couple more finds, including a 1905 V Nickel and nice watch winder, we took a break. Then we ate fantastic seafood for lunch, and we then headed out on a little scouting mission to find the next site to occupy our time for a couple months.
Using top secret, time-proven CaneField Bandit Techniques including map dowsing and telepathy, we managed to locate a site.
We came upon a giant brick patch with pottery and all the goodies. Neither one of us had our detectors, and we were a mile away from the truck. I eyeballed a nickel right on top of the ground. Just a fluke that I saw it in all the cane stubble. I wanted to wait till I got back to check it out (hoping it wouldn't be a Jefferson or Buff...or even a V!). So we slogged back through the mud and I cleaned the nickel off a bit to see what it was. It was a Shield Nickel in great shape, which gave me hope for an antebellum site (which, let's face it, is the only type of site I am interested in digging).
We hit the site hard, doing 8 cane rows out of about 100. This took 3.5 hours, since we walked about a half mile on each row--and never got out of the iron patch in the debris field I might add! So this is a large site, which should be great for us. I am always very thankful to find each an Every site in terrain that stretches out endlessly and totally flat in all directions.
We took a break to check out some spanish moss covered trees:
The new spot gave up her treasures slowly. A Flat button. A mid-19th century brass padlock.
Then on the last row of the day, and almost at dark, I got two great keepers.
Here's a video of the hunt, complete with close-up photos of the finds:
We're working on the massive photo-op that has to take place to get our 2012 year-end post up and running. We'll get it posted soon.
In the meantime, Happy 2013 Y'all!
-The CaneField Bandits
Well we finally got out digging after two weeks of nonstop rain here. There is no point in hunting when it rains that much here in Southern Louisiana. I have never seen worse mud in my life. Not what you'd want to break an ankle in. In spite of several days of dry weather, the mud still came close to doing us in today, as you'll see in the video.
At any rate, we got out and Shanegalang walked right up on a Spanish silver just laying right on top of the ground where it had washed out in the heavy rains! It turned out to be a silver-plated counterfeit half real.
After Shanegalang picked up a couple more finds, including a 1905 V Nickel and nice watch winder, we took a break. Then we ate fantastic seafood for lunch, and we then headed out on a little scouting mission to find the next site to occupy our time for a couple months.
Using top secret, time-proven CaneField Bandit Techniques including map dowsing and telepathy, we managed to locate a site.
We came upon a giant brick patch with pottery and all the goodies. Neither one of us had our detectors, and we were a mile away from the truck. I eyeballed a nickel right on top of the ground. Just a fluke that I saw it in all the cane stubble. I wanted to wait till I got back to check it out (hoping it wouldn't be a Jefferson or Buff...or even a V!). So we slogged back through the mud and I cleaned the nickel off a bit to see what it was. It was a Shield Nickel in great shape, which gave me hope for an antebellum site (which, let's face it, is the only type of site I am interested in digging). We hit the site hard, doing 8 cane rows out of about 100. This took 3.5 hours, since we walked about a half mile on each row--and never got out of the iron patch in the debris field I might add! So this is a large site, which should be great for us. I am always very thankful to find each an Every site in terrain that stretches out endlessly and totally flat in all directions.
We took a break to check out some spanish moss covered trees:
The new spot gave up her treasures slowly. A Flat button. A mid-19th century brass padlock.
Then on the last row of the day, and almost at dark, I got two great keepers.
Here's a video of the hunt, complete with close-up photos of the finds:
We're working on the massive photo-op that has to take place to get our 2012 year-end post up and running. We'll get it posted soon.
In the meantime, Happy 2013 Y'all!
-The CaneField Bandits
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lol Wait until next time!! And lesson learned..........carry a spare. Quindy, thanks for the good eye 
(that's a joke - no one would ever throw silver away). I guess it's no coincidence that half cents went away in 1857 at the same time as Spanish silver, since one real was worth 12.5 cents.
