Back to the Isaac Cambell Knapsack Field... another British Badge!

ANTIQUARIAN · Dec 5, 2014

I went back to the field for 3hrs yesterday where I've been finding the Isaac Campbell Knapsack Loops and wasn't disappointed! Although I sure would've liked to have dug something other than knapsack loops and a solitary British Military badge. :icon_scratch:

The ground was frozen at least 2 - 3" and the temp was 28F with a strong wind, so I ended up carrying a lot of frozen clumps of dirt home with me. I was getting a solid hits at 80 - 81 every 20 - 30 feet and each time it was another knapsack loop. The loops was all I was finding until I finally got a 91 - 92 on the surface and out popped my 5th British Military badge found at this site! :thumbsup:

It's a bit bent... ok it's a lot bent but I'll still take it! :laughing7:

It's not as heavily constructed as the other badges that I've found here, it also has the remains of a small brass wire in the back. This is what makes me think it was possibly part of a knapsack.

A good friend suggested that someone my have been 'recycling / reusing' British Military Knapsacks here in the 19thc. This would certainly explain the large amount of 'loops'. I found 20+ yesterday and over 40 for the site... but no hooks, why have I not found any hooks? :dontknow:

I ventured into the heavy growth at the side of the field where I was detecting and took pics of some unusual stone foundations. I think it may have been a barn and a house at some point, it's definitely as old as the house to the west of here on the hill. I plan on getting back again on Sunday morning, depending on how frozen the ground it of course! :icon_thumleft:

Thanks for looking,
Dave

sutphin · Jul 2, 2015

ANTIQU SEND ME A BADGE OR TWO AND SOME KNAP SACK LOOPS. I MUST BE IN A SEASON TIME WARP BUT YOU SAY YESTERDAY IN THE SNOW. WHERE AND THE HELL YOU HUNTING IN ALASKA . SEND SOME THAT COLD AIR DOWN HERE TO MARYLAND SO I CAN GET RID OF THESE DAMN GNATS AND THE HUMIDITY.MAN THE BADGES ARE UNREAL YOU REALLY FIND SOME NEAT STUFF.

ANTIQUARIAN · Jul 2, 2015

sutphin said:
ANTIQU SEND ME A BADGE OR TWO AND SOME KNAPSACK LOOPS. I MUST BE IN A SEASON TIME WARP BUT YOU SAY YESTERDAY IN THE SNOW. WHERE AND THE HELL YOU HUNTING IN ALASKA . SEND SOME THAT COLD AIR DOWN HERE TO MARYLAND SO I CAN GET RID OF THESE DAMN GNATS AND THE HUMIDITY.MAN THE BADGES ARE UNREAL YOU REALLY FIND SOME NEAT STUFF.

Thanks for your post bud, this was a thread I posted last December that i never got around to responding to! :thumbsup:

The badge and the loop are in the mail! :laughing7:

Dave