HutSiteDigger
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- Location
- Stafford,Virginia
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher 1266x and a shovel
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- All Treasure Hunting
Hey everyone.... I posted this in the "What Is It" section on here because I am not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure it is a pencil, today I was out hut digging and dug this about 2 feet in the ground... Im thinking it is some sort of pencil holder with the pencil still inside it
I have never come across this before 
, it is about 2 inches of brass tube with a wooden pencil like thing inserted in the tube, you can see a wooden pencil like thing @ the end there.
The top of the artifact is wooden and came off while I was cleaning it which then I saw the pencil or whatever it is inside the brass tube, and on the side of the artifact is something wooden with a hole in it almost as a keyring type thingy, at first I thought it was a medical syringe but it isnt, the camp I was hunting in was visited a lot by news reporters and photographers in 1862 and this union hut may have been where a reporter or photographer stayed during the winter months because I did not find any cw military type artifacts in the hut only broken pieces of glass, a toe plate that looked like a civilian used, two broken pieces of a fork, a mangled up brass comb and then this piece... This camp was one of the more healthier camps in Stafford during the CW than most regiment camps were in the area. I am still in the process of cleaning it up.. Thanks & HH
After further research I think I have concluded this is a Slated pencil with the metal holder still attached! a first for me and have never heard of anyone else I know digging one though im sure many have turned up in CW camps before!
[video=facebook;452511381484197]http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=452511381484197¬if_t=video_processed[/video]
I have never come across this before , it is about 2 inches of brass tube with a wooden pencil like thing inserted in the tube, you can see a wooden pencil like thing @ the end there. The top of the artifact is wooden and came off while I was cleaning it which then I saw the pencil or whatever it is inside the brass tube, and on the side of the artifact is something wooden with a hole in it almost as a keyring type thingy, at first I thought it was a medical syringe but it isnt, the camp I was hunting in was visited a lot by news reporters and photographers in 1862 and this union hut may have been where a reporter or photographer stayed during the winter months because I did not find any cw military type artifacts in the hut only broken pieces of glass, a toe plate that looked like a civilian used, two broken pieces of a fork, a mangled up brass comb and then this piece... This camp was one of the more healthier camps in Stafford during the CW than most regiment camps were in the area. I am still in the process of cleaning it up.. Thanks & HH
After further research I think I have concluded this is a Slated pencil with the metal holder still attached! a first for me and have never heard of anyone else I know digging one though im sure many have turned up in CW camps before!
[video=facebook;452511381484197]http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=452511381484197¬if_t=video_processed[/video]
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