treasurehound
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- Joined
- Jan 23, 2008
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- Location
- Morristown, Tennessee
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab GPX 4500,
Minelab Equinox 800,
Garrett AT GOLD with NEL coil,
Garrett Sea Hunter
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Tnrelicman and I was going to meet this afternoon and hunt a place we have been researching. I got there a little early and decided to hunt a park. After finding the usual clad I left to drive around a little. Went by a place where we hunted last and found a partial spur and burnside cartridge. It was about knee high in weeds so I knew we couldn't hunt it today. So back to the park I went to try to hunt another part of the park that had some large trees. Bingo. I found a nice button that looked like a Civil War state button. Man I was stoked. Guy showed up and we hunted the park some more. Then I found a bullet and a suspender buckle (I think). Why go anywhere else when we have relics right here. Then Guy told me that the actual battle was a couple blocks away. We then left and drove around and found some other sites that we are going to hunt next time. My take for today was a Knights of Pythias Uniform Rank button (established 1864), a CW bullet, a suspender buckle, 1945-D mercury dime, some clad, a watch and some other odds and ends. We were finding several old iron pieces and knew that there had to be some old coins nearby. This was a large park and was busy with kids and parties so we will have to hit it again earlier before it gets busy. The merc was one of the last coins I found and it was close to a shelter full of people and I would have loved to have kept going along the tree line. Oh well next time. The relics suprised me but after talking with Guy and seeing we were that close to the action makes me want to go back and hit it a little harder. ***Updated photo of the back of the button using Buckleboy's button cleaning method.***
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