BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Got out with Shanegalang to do some Deep South Diggin. Anyhow, Shane had to work in the morning for a while, so I dropped by an old field of ours to try out my new Fisher F75. Well, I did get some good keepers. Got a flat button, and a some other bits, then got a jumpy signal in a row that I know we have gridded four times at least. Out popped a button. I was hoping for Military, and let the camera roll:
I was pleased to get the eagle, even though it was destroyed. I love the Civil War stuff. It's what fascinated me about the hobby since I was 13 years old. At any rate, I soon got a call from Shane that he was close by and he wanted to hit a new spot we've been looking at. The cane was cut and burned this week, and we got in that dry, dusty, ash-covered field. Pretty soon we had a couple musket balls, and he got a nice decorated flintlock musket trigger guard. Things were looking up...BUT...
The area was Covered with trash. Can slaw. Pulltabs. Crappe! The site was badly contaminated by lots of newer junk, including Victorian era stuff, wheat pennies, farm junk, and GawGag. I wanted to persist for a while and see what else we could pull, and so we dedicated the rest of the day to digging out the junk. A while later, Shane called me to get the camera rolling again. He had just dug a Silver coin!
It was really decent Capped Bust, which got us fired up. I only had a couple wheats, a GawGag buffalo nickel, and two play coins to my credit on the new site. Well, we kept working it, clearing a ton of trash out, and several buckets of junk iron. Here's Shane digging up some more aluminum can, with a lot of really flat Real Estate in the background of the shot.
I dug a whole pocket watch, which was a cool find. Also got a thimble in pristine condition (I think almost every one of the ones I've dug in 20 years have been mashed or trashed). Eventually we called it a day. I think there is more there, and I'm not certain we hit the sweet spot yet, since the finds were old enough for flat buttons to have been there and we dug not a one. At any rate, here are my finds. Not sure how old the horse bit is. Anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it!
A couple close-ups. I also got the engraved piece of OLD brass beside the pocket watch. Not sure what it was from.
As I was cleaning off the eagle button, I began to notice that it was very strange. The camera doesn't catch this detail very well, because it doesn't differentiate between the face and back of the button. This appears to be a button that has had the eagle cut out! The cuts are down the wings and across the body, and they are uneven, in some cases well into the design, not as a result of plow damage, which normally causes a button to break at the die stress points. Wish there was no plow hit on this one, because this "trashed" eagle turned into a cool find!
Cheers,
Buck
Got out with Shanegalang to do some Deep South Diggin. Anyhow, Shane had to work in the morning for a while, so I dropped by an old field of ours to try out my new Fisher F75. Well, I did get some good keepers. Got a flat button, and a some other bits, then got a jumpy signal in a row that I know we have gridded four times at least. Out popped a button. I was hoping for Military, and let the camera roll:
I was pleased to get the eagle, even though it was destroyed. I love the Civil War stuff. It's what fascinated me about the hobby since I was 13 years old. At any rate, I soon got a call from Shane that he was close by and he wanted to hit a new spot we've been looking at. The cane was cut and burned this week, and we got in that dry, dusty, ash-covered field. Pretty soon we had a couple musket balls, and he got a nice decorated flintlock musket trigger guard. Things were looking up...BUT...
The area was Covered with trash. Can slaw. Pulltabs. Crappe! The site was badly contaminated by lots of newer junk, including Victorian era stuff, wheat pennies, farm junk, and GawGag. I wanted to persist for a while and see what else we could pull, and so we dedicated the rest of the day to digging out the junk. A while later, Shane called me to get the camera rolling again. He had just dug a Silver coin!
It was really decent Capped Bust, which got us fired up. I only had a couple wheats, a GawGag buffalo nickel, and two play coins to my credit on the new site. Well, we kept working it, clearing a ton of trash out, and several buckets of junk iron. Here's Shane digging up some more aluminum can, with a lot of really flat Real Estate in the background of the shot.
I dug a whole pocket watch, which was a cool find. Also got a thimble in pristine condition (I think almost every one of the ones I've dug in 20 years have been mashed or trashed). Eventually we called it a day. I think there is more there, and I'm not certain we hit the sweet spot yet, since the finds were old enough for flat buttons to have been there and we dug not a one. At any rate, here are my finds. Not sure how old the horse bit is. Anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it!
A couple close-ups. I also got the engraved piece of OLD brass beside the pocket watch. Not sure what it was from.
As I was cleaning off the eagle button, I began to notice that it was very strange. The camera doesn't catch this detail very well, because it doesn't differentiate between the face and back of the button. This appears to be a button that has had the eagle cut out! The cuts are down the wings and across the body, and they are uneven, in some cases well into the design, not as a result of plow damage, which normally causes a button to break at the die stress points. Wish there was no plow hit on this one, because this "trashed" eagle turned into a cool find!
Cheers,
Buck
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