Jose The Goon
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- Location
- East Coast
- Detector(s) used
- Whites 6000D, 6000Di, Eagle, & PI 1000
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I don't believe this is the proper thread for this but I thought my fellow detectorists would enjoy
viewing the coin & the story behind it. (especially the Maryland folks)
It's a very nice looking coin found with a metal detector by an "Archie". There's a photo of the coin in the following link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/20/harriet-tubman-maryland-home-found/
“We were coming up basically empty-handed,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Where is this place? Where is this place?’”
"The area was often waterlogged, sometimes inaccessible, and most of what was being found was “dripping wet mud,” she said.
"In desperation, she started walking an old road with a metal detector. A knife sheath turned up, and a shotgun shell, and then something else."
“I dug it out of the ground thinking I was going to get, like, a shotgun shell,” she said.
It was the coin."
"The coin was found about a quarter-mile from where the cabin would eventually be located, she said. But it “told us that we were on the right path, that we were getting closer.”
A few other artifacts were found at the end of the dig and the team decided to return this March for a more thorough examination.
"Last month, as they dug further, more artifacts began to appear – chunks of brick, rusty nails, bits of ceramics with designs patterns that could be dated, she said. Many patterns dated to the “1820s, 1830s, 1840s time period,” she said.
“That’s when we had our … moment,” she said. “That’s when we knew that this is it. Because it couldn’t be anywhere else. There was nothing else … that dated to that time period.”
"The combination of records, location and artifacts finally added up, she said. “It’s not just one artifact that tells us we have something. It’s the assemblage. It’s the multiple pieces.”
"Tubman" 1808 Capped Bust Half
viewing the coin & the story behind it. (especially the Maryland folks)
It's a very nice looking coin found with a metal detector by an "Archie". There's a photo of the coin in the following link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/20/harriet-tubman-maryland-home-found/
“We were coming up basically empty-handed,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Where is this place? Where is this place?’”
"The area was often waterlogged, sometimes inaccessible, and most of what was being found was “dripping wet mud,” she said.
"In desperation, she started walking an old road with a metal detector. A knife sheath turned up, and a shotgun shell, and then something else."
“I dug it out of the ground thinking I was going to get, like, a shotgun shell,” she said.
It was the coin."
"The coin was found about a quarter-mile from where the cabin would eventually be located, she said. But it “told us that we were on the right path, that we were getting closer.”
A few other artifacts were found at the end of the dig and the team decided to return this March for a more thorough examination.
"Last month, as they dug further, more artifacts began to appear – chunks of brick, rusty nails, bits of ceramics with designs patterns that could be dated, she said. Many patterns dated to the “1820s, 1830s, 1840s time period,” she said.
“That’s when we had our … moment,” she said. “That’s when we knew that this is it. Because it couldn’t be anywhere else. There was nothing else … that dated to that time period.”
"The combination of records, location and artifacts finally added up, she said. “It’s not just one artifact that tells us we have something. It’s the assemblage. It’s the multiple pieces.”
"Tubman" 1808 Capped Bust Half
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