silversweeper
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- Aug 22, 2011
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Etrac, CTX 3030
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Here is a small assortment of finds I've picked out of some very trashy & hunted out sites over the past week or so. There are a couple of Civil War bullets, (some 69 cal. round balls, some 54 cal. round balls, and 1 44 Cal. Sage pistol bullet. The balls came from a "hunted out area". The 44 cal. came out of a sidewalk tear out on Tuesday evening (also have a 69 cal 3 ringer from that tear out from a few days before but it's not pictured). I was the 3rd detectorist to go over the area. When I'd checked in on my buddy who hunted the spot first he told me that there was a lot of bits and pieces of iron in the ground and not much else. That's usually a cue for me to hit it with my 6 inch sunray coil and pick up the leftovers.). The heavily chewed 69 cal miniball (not sure if it was 3 or 2 rings) came from a pretty much hunted out encampment and was my only find that day other than the back of a cuff button. But that's okay, I always like finding those bullets that the soldiers chewed. I have 4 or 5 now and all are different calibers. Also pictured is a primitive square copper local token with H. Unnerstall in a semicircle stamped into it (sidewalk tearout find). At one time it had a "good for....." stamped in the center but that's pretty much gone now and very, very hard to see. Unnerstall's owned a drugstore here locally but I think this token may be from before that and could have been from a hotel or grocers. There's 1 1903 Indian head that was very crusty and technically an eyeball find as it was laying washed out where I was detecting a local park, had to put it in electrolisis for a bit to even make out the indian's head or date, nice little coin now. Same picture shows a 53 Rosie (another eyeball find the day I found the indian), and an 1896 V Nickel that came out of another hunted out park (There's a very cool flower with a green glass center that was a very deep find from the same park as the V nickel and has to be from the early 1800's. It was originally a lapel or hat pin but the pin on the back was broken off.). The day I found the Indian and Rosie I was using a new 13" Ultimate coil I'd just bought for deep stuff. Figures my only 2 good finds would be on the surface!! LOL Also is a keyplate from a building that was a meeting place at a local park in the early 1900's and burned down many, many years ago. The plate was crusted with corrosion until electrolisis. Then there's a '43 D Merc from a virtual field of nails at that park, a miracle picking it out of that spot! The donut shaped token is a good luck token from "Lucky Auto Seat Covers" (I feel like there's a joke to tell there somehow....Lucky seat covers? The other side says "Keep me for Good Luck". The little brass rivet in that picture I'm particularly proud of because it is attached to a chunk of iron (sidewalk tearout). It's Civil War era but from what I don't know, just neat to be able to get a positive signal with it attached to so much iron. And that's it for now. Back to it for an hour tomorrow morning if I'm lucky...... HH to all!
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