Re: trash Sometimes its the site you're on. My one site from long, long ago produced coins, Rev War marked buttons (2), F&I buttons (5), a cannon ball, a couple dozen grapeshot and over 1,000 round musket balls, the only "trash" was horseshoes, broken plowshares, parts to spring harrows and wadded up old aluminum foil "balls" from someone's lunch. Another - several Rev War marked buttons, of course most were of the dog food variety, the only trash was a few pop tops and new(er) fired bullets or casings, my one current CW site has produced a couple plates, busted artillery rounds, Yankee buttons, only "new" stuff was a few Lincoln cents, some pencil erasers and cans left by other diggers from long in the past. The most surprising sites (3 of them), well, my farmer friend let me dig and out came CW stuff - good stuff, no one thought to look before. Another great spot was not too far away - Confederate buttons and all the hardware to a McLellan saddle! TONS of small bits of aluminum and an occasional whole or nearly whole aluminum can. Gotta dig them, they sometimes sound like plates. Third place - my friends literally "bought the farm" and the Yanks chased the Rebels right through the place, and apparently someone camped there. Plates, hat badges, coins including gold, bullets, some buttons and the last find this spring was a cut off ramrod, the time before my friend dug a grapeshot! Only one!! And all three places had very little trash (except for that one little spot on site #3 that breeds aluminum cans, but its a small area)! It's marvelous when it works out that way!
