johnnyi
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- minelab, white's xlt, deus xp, fisher aquanaut, white's twin box
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- Relic Hunting
The marsh called me back again today. At this point I can' help myself, I have to know what is there. I could only spend three hours because I had to pick my poor cat up from being neutered, so I hit the little high spot once again where I'd found the swagger stick. This time the shotgun shells weren't bad; maybe half a dozen in all because I'd picked so many out already. What is left is deep signals, and many brass/copper signals break and sputter like iron. Numbers are meaningless on the machine.
Again at real depth (red gravel) I'm finding lots of red pottery and clam shell (a good 18+ inches down!) . It seems to deep for English pottery, and I think it may be an indian settlement before settlers moved in. It will be near impossible to sift, as for every hole I have to dig through a crisscross of roots.
Today I dug a broken tombac button, a cuff button, broken shoe buckle, and various shards of metal and a few square nails which had showed promise as good signals, and the coins.
The 1745 king George 2nd was a fairtly decent signal. I used Don's method to clean this one side (haven't cleaned the versos yet. Soaked therm both for three hours in peroxide and used a q-tip. (sorry Don, I put olive oil on them afterwards for the picture
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The 1736 farthing was a signal I wouldn't have dug anywhere else, just a hint of a tweek, and then iron breaks. It looks as though it was lost near the day it was struck. It's possibly one of my better condition farthings i've ever found, possibly due to the depth and different gravel which might have protected it. (just looked at it again, it seems it was against a little bit of iron which probably helped save it and which mightr be why the signal was so terrible!)
The unworn condition and dates of the coins has me wondering if this little oasis in the marsh was settled long before the War of !812, and that the arms on the British swagger stick might prove to be revolutionary rather than 1812. It's definately showing to be more than just a place where people camped, but instead where they might have lived.
Again at real depth (red gravel) I'm finding lots of red pottery and clam shell (a good 18+ inches down!) . It seems to deep for English pottery, and I think it may be an indian settlement before settlers moved in. It will be near impossible to sift, as for every hole I have to dig through a crisscross of roots.
Today I dug a broken tombac button, a cuff button, broken shoe buckle, and various shards of metal and a few square nails which had showed promise as good signals, and the coins.
The 1745 king George 2nd was a fairtly decent signal. I used Don's method to clean this one side (haven't cleaned the versos yet. Soaked therm both for three hours in peroxide and used a q-tip. (sorry Don, I put olive oil on them afterwards for the picture
)). The 1736 farthing was a signal I wouldn't have dug anywhere else, just a hint of a tweek, and then iron breaks. It looks as though it was lost near the day it was struck. It's possibly one of my better condition farthings i've ever found, possibly due to the depth and different gravel which might have protected it. (just looked at it again, it seems it was against a little bit of iron which probably helped save it and which mightr be why the signal was so terrible!)
The unworn condition and dates of the coins has me wondering if this little oasis in the marsh was settled long before the War of !812, and that the arms on the British swagger stick might prove to be revolutionary rather than 1812. It's definately showing to be more than just a place where people camped, but instead where they might have lived.
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