mangum
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Awesome Hunt with a BOBCAT! USA button, 2 more Cannonballs, Coins, Colonial & More!!!
Hello all! I got together with 4 other friends for 3 days this weekend to do some serious digging. We rented a bobcat to clear out the undergrowth & do some digging (with the landowner's permission of course, I wasn't detecting with that wrestler guy lol). This is the same location where I found the 3 howitzer shells, the home of a Revolutionary War general. There was an encampment here & we found it! (a very small portion of it)
The find of the weekend was a beautiful USA Continental Army button found by Randy! I want one bad, it's going to happen soon, I can feel it! It's in amazing shape. There is no edge loss whatsoever! We were hunting a spot that had a lot of nails where I found my 3 shells. We decided to take a layer off the top of a roughly 20ftx20ft area. Then we detected that & found a few things. We decided to take another layer off & see if we could still hear iron, we did. I got a great signal & pulled up a thimble. Then I see Randy smiling & dropped something into my buddy's Bill's hand. It was a USA button! Then Chris noticed some ash. He started digging & it was a fire pit! We dug it out and found a lot of animal bones, nails, pottery & a tombac button. At that point we decided to clear off the area right beside this area. We found another fire pit! It was a near perfect gray circle visible. Unfortunately this was the last day (at the end of the day) that we had the bobcat to use. We marked the area & will be back soon to look for the larger encampment. This was a really neat experience, it made me realize how much can be masked by all the iron.
We recovered a lot of relics throughout the weekend, I've included some of my buddies finds as well. Chris found 2 more howitzer shells right next to each other (about 1.5 ft down). This makes 7 from this site! I've found 3 & Chris has found 3 so it's a contest now to see who finds #4!
I found everything except what I have named. Now, I'll let the relics speak for themselves. Thanks for looking& HH!
Hello all! I got together with 4 other friends for 3 days this weekend to do some serious digging. We rented a bobcat to clear out the undergrowth & do some digging (with the landowner's permission of course, I wasn't detecting with that wrestler guy lol). This is the same location where I found the 3 howitzer shells, the home of a Revolutionary War general. There was an encampment here & we found it! (a very small portion of it)
The find of the weekend was a beautiful USA Continental Army button found by Randy! I want one bad, it's going to happen soon, I can feel it! It's in amazing shape. There is no edge loss whatsoever! We were hunting a spot that had a lot of nails where I found my 3 shells. We decided to take a layer off the top of a roughly 20ftx20ft area. Then we detected that & found a few things. We decided to take another layer off & see if we could still hear iron, we did. I got a great signal & pulled up a thimble. Then I see Randy smiling & dropped something into my buddy's Bill's hand. It was a USA button! Then Chris noticed some ash. He started digging & it was a fire pit! We dug it out and found a lot of animal bones, nails, pottery & a tombac button. At that point we decided to clear off the area right beside this area. We found another fire pit! It was a near perfect gray circle visible. Unfortunately this was the last day (at the end of the day) that we had the bobcat to use. We marked the area & will be back soon to look for the larger encampment. This was a really neat experience, it made me realize how much can be masked by all the iron.
We recovered a lot of relics throughout the weekend, I've included some of my buddies finds as well. Chris found 2 more howitzer shells right next to each other (about 1.5 ft down). This makes 7 from this site! I've found 3 & Chris has found 3 so it's a contest now to see who finds #4!
I found everything except what I have named. Now, I'll let the relics speak for themselves. Thanks for looking& HH!
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