CORRECT FINDS........................BUT NOT "THE" FINDS

AQUA · Apr 8, 2014

HEY GUYS AND GALS

Been a few days since posting......took a few days off and tried a couple spots that produced the big "0". Last years spots ...thought maybe the frost might have moved stuff around and the tall grass is laying flat...no dice.

But got back on the trail again with these finds...nothing special but indicators that am still in the correct location to find something special. The bomb fragments are a good sign of a battle. Was a pile of rocks close to them half way to low water...these rocks are not the typical shore rocks...they have been quarried at some point. Not rounded edges....they would fit closely together perhaps for ballast in the old ships.

The pewter button is the first one I have found that is hollow....anyone have any info on it ??

romeo-1 · Apr 10, 2014

Iron Patch said:
Actually, think of 100lb dumbbell, a ball that big would have to weigh a whole lot more than that.

Yep...I've got three chunks from the same ball and all together they weigh about 80 pounds...and they make up maybe a third of what the total ball would have been...

Iron Patch · Apr 10, 2014

romeo-1 said:
Yep...I've got three chunks from the same ball and all together they weigh about 80 pounds...and they make up maybe a third of what the total ball would have been...

A decade + ago a guy in MA dug a 400 pounder. They brought in the equipment to haul it home and posted pics of the ordeal. I have to think what he found is the same sort of thing those frags are from.

AQUA · Apr 10, 2014

The Patriot said:
Those frags are nice but heavy to carry back to the car...when does your fishing season start?

Gonna start getting traps ready next week...set them around 5th of May when the full tides drop back...--fish til July 31st..haul traps every other day...so still lotsa time for detecting.

AQUA · Apr 10, 2014

romeo-1 said:
Holy cow...those are some big frags...the big one must be 40 pounds I'd bet!

That picture is very deceiving.....

They look much bigger than they are...OPTICAL ILLLUSION. My feet look small in the pic compared to the frags....weird.

They are thinner than the ones you have....found them 1/2 mile north from where you found yours.

AQUA · Apr 10, 2014

Iron Patch said:
A decade + ago a guy in MA dug a 400 pounder. They brought in the equipment to haul it home and posted pics of the ordeal. I have to think what he found is the same sort of thing those frags are from.

400LBS

? Thats crazy big.

WOW..how much powder would it take to make that fly any distance

?

Ahab8 · Apr 10, 2014

AQUA said:
400LBS ? Thats crazy big. WOW..how much powder would it take to make that fly any distance ?

Talk about an overload signal. :-)

Iron Patch · Apr 10, 2014

AQUA said:
400LBS ? Thats crazy big.

WOW..how much powder would it take to make that fly any distance ?

That's what I recall the post saying, and they had to bring in some small type of hoist to get it home.

AQUA · Apr 10, 2014

Iron Patch said:
That's what I recall the post saying, and they had to bring in some small type of hoist to get it home.

What a great lawn ornament that would make----too cool !!!!

VOL1266-X · Apr 10, 2014

Definitely not an average Tnet post. Very interesting AQ. WTG, Q.

AQUA · Apr 11, 2014

VOL1266-X said:
Definitely not an average Tnet post. Very interesting AQ. WTG, Q.

ty VOL

Would love to find one fully intact..be too cool...but would almost be afraid to disturb it.

Ahab8 · Apr 11, 2014

When are you getting your a** back to work? I don't like having to know you're out there hunting every day when I'm working bro :-) but I'm off today and out I shall go. It's out there for both of us . Just gotta find it. Good luck today

Bill D. (VA) · Apr 11, 2014

That's a ton of lead, and I like the button too!

Steve in PA · Apr 11, 2014

I find those blow hole buttons on French and Indian War and Rev War sites. They were commonly used on uniforms during this period although they also were used on civilian clothes. Usually they are brass like the others said, but on one particular French and Indian War site, I have found them in pewter.

AQUA · Apr 11, 2014

Steve in PA said:
I find those blow hole buttons on French and Indian War and Rev War sites. They were commonly used on uniforms during this period although they also were used on civilian clothes. Usually they are brass like the others said, but on one particular French and Indian War site, I have found them in pewter.

Cool...ty Steve

Great piece of info right there. That would add up for this area...French / Indians...

Ty for the pictures also !!!