MonkeyBoy
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Hello all,
Have not been out digging too much.. but took my boys out to dig a trash pit close to home that has given us a bunch of good bottles. The bottles were pretty slow coming of of the ground, got a few that are still soaking but while digging I hit and area that had 28 buttons in about a foot circle or so. We used a sifter and I am pretty sure we got them all. The first ones were cool little glass ones but then I spotted a cuff/vest size metal one and it was the Connecticut!!! I was pretty happy with that!!! In 20 years of relic hunting I have only dug one.. then I started checking allthe dirt I had pulled out of the hole and found the Virginia cuff sitting on top of the dirt!! We ran home and got a sifter and went through the rest of the dirt and found 4 more.. The only thing I can think of was a group of buttons were thrown out since at some point since the earliest bottle we have found dates to just after the Civil War.
Thanks for looking..
MB
Went back out.. dug 6 more good bottles including a nice little ink that still has the dried ink in it.. and found 5 more buttons but no more Civil War period ones... tons more digging to do!!
Have not been out digging too much.. but took my boys out to dig a trash pit close to home that has given us a bunch of good bottles. The bottles were pretty slow coming of of the ground, got a few that are still soaking but while digging I hit and area that had 28 buttons in about a foot circle or so. We used a sifter and I am pretty sure we got them all. The first ones were cool little glass ones but then I spotted a cuff/vest size metal one and it was the Connecticut!!! I was pretty happy with that!!! In 20 years of relic hunting I have only dug one.. then I started checking allthe dirt I had pulled out of the hole and found the Virginia cuff sitting on top of the dirt!! We ran home and got a sifter and went through the rest of the dirt and found 4 more.. The only thing I can think of was a group of buttons were thrown out since at some point since the earliest bottle we have found dates to just after the Civil War.
Thanks for looking..
MB
Went back out.. dug 6 more good bottles including a nice little ink that still has the dried ink in it.. and found 5 more buttons but no more Civil War period ones... tons more digging to do!!
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