Day in the woods with friends New Colonial Site

[rjs123]

Ive been researching a new site for months and finally nailed down its location and who owned it a few days ago. I went out to meet the owner and he not only gave me permission but told me about the site and some of the others who have researched it in the past. It has been detected before but not a lot judging by the dozen or more shot gun shells I dug up as well as a few good targets.

I invited James Bibb and Mike Post to join me and we hit the woods about 9AM. After heading in a few hundred yards we crossed a creek and headed up a hill, the way the land owner told us to go. James called out that he had found a cellar hole with scattered hand made bricks. We had found it, the site of an historic building dating to the mid 1700s. We all found a few Colonial buttons and some lead but the good finds were a lot fewer than I had hoped for. The find of the day and the only silver was half of a pisterene cut in two, found by James. I suppose second was my 1873 three cent nickle.

I found the bottom of the black glass bottle just laying in a creek. I will be going back to poke around in the mud in this creek. Anyone have any suggestions on how to find the privys? There were actually several colonial dwellings on this site.

On the way back Mike and I stopped and got permission to hunt an early 1800s house.

Lesson learned: Be more gentle when cleaning buttons this old. Im pretty sure they are pewter and started to crumble in the edges.

 

[bookfisher]

I would definitely go back to that site, especially in late fall and winter, and start out hunting any level or open areas. There's got to be more early coins and relics there!

 

[RiverRat3]

I'm with "book fisher" I think you are going to have a lot more luck there.

 

[sscindercoop]

looks like a great spot!!!!! Haven't seen a dug 3 cent nickle posted recently HH

 

[joeyfresh]

It must feel great when your hard research pays off and the land owner is receptive. good luck and I can't wait to see what else you find there. I love our beautiful colonial Virginia

 

[Hill Billy]

privydigger.com
Teach you all you need to know.
Good job on the 3 cent.

Hill

 

[jamesbibb]

It was a fun scorching day to eat spiders and swat horse flies!! Thanks for the invite and the chance at the cut pistareen! Here is my pics!

 

[Mr Tuff]

great finds!!!!! MR TUFF

 

[JW15]

Way to go!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Great post Bob. I want to thank you again for having us out, and all that hard research you did. It was really cool to see in person to visually see what we had previously read about. See you soon,

Mike