BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
I got out with KFB today. Found our site up on a big hill in a bean field with a great view of a mile or two in every direction.
The finds were very thin, and it took us a while to pinpoint the exact spot we needed to focus on. KFB found the first good keeper--a CW-Era Eagle Button (Backmark "Extra Quality"). We got a couple of silverware handles, pewter bits, KFB got a toe tap and I got one as well, plus some rivets.
Here's KFB diggin a hole to China for some scrap Iron.
I then got a nice signal, flipped the dirt out, and saw an item I thought was either a coin or button sticking out of the dirt clod. I asked KFB for an ID number before I broke it out, so I could get a photo if it was a coin--and he said it read low (prolly because it was a Copper-Nickel IH!). I broke it out of the clod rather unceremoniously and then realized it was a coin.
Here she is:
A few more bits for both of us, and then I dug another Eagle Button
Here is a photo of both of them, freshly dug:
Since it was a short hunt, we couldn't spend long. I don't expect much more to come out of this spot, but I think I'll go back tomorrow and finish it up with a few other members of the team...
Here are my finds, plus KFB's Eagle button (on the left). My button had a pushed in and broken back (no backmark). The round thing with the design on it is a decorative rivet. The IH is an 1861 "fatty," and it was lost when it was new. I can still read a full "Liberty" on the headband.
Best Wishes to all of you from the IRON Brigade.
I got out with KFB today. Found our site up on a big hill in a bean field with a great view of a mile or two in every direction.
The finds were very thin, and it took us a while to pinpoint the exact spot we needed to focus on. KFB found the first good keeper--a CW-Era Eagle Button (Backmark "Extra Quality"). We got a couple of silverware handles, pewter bits, KFB got a toe tap and I got one as well, plus some rivets.
Here's KFB diggin a hole to China for some scrap Iron.
I then got a nice signal, flipped the dirt out, and saw an item I thought was either a coin or button sticking out of the dirt clod. I asked KFB for an ID number before I broke it out, so I could get a photo if it was a coin--and he said it read low (prolly because it was a Copper-Nickel IH!). I broke it out of the clod rather unceremoniously and then realized it was a coin.
Here she is:A few more bits for both of us, and then I dug another Eagle Button
Here is a photo of both of them, freshly dug:Since it was a short hunt, we couldn't spend long. I don't expect much more to come out of this spot, but I think I'll go back tomorrow and finish it up with a few other members of the team...
Here are my finds, plus KFB's Eagle button (on the left). My button had a pushed in and broken back (no backmark). The round thing with the design on it is a decorative rivet. The IH is an 1861 "fatty," and it was lost when it was new. I can still read a full "Liberty" on the headband.
Best Wishes to all of you from the IRON Brigade.
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