Door knocking 1851 House

[Bharpring]

I was in BG, KY this week and did some door knocking. I got a permission to detect a property built in 1851. The owner told me that the property had been hunted by a group of detectorists when they purchased the house in the 80s. She went on to say that they only found a few relics because most of the yard had been backfilled by the previous owner. She said that I was welcome to try. So I told her that I would let her and her husband know if I found anything and that I was going to be hunting with a buddy of mine, a local detectorist that I met on KDD facebook page a few months ago, Robert Sorgmann. As we were detecting, the owner came out to talk and gave us some more history of the house. It was the main house for a huge farm that had been built by a Union sympathizer and taken over by Confederates and used as a boarding house until the Union took BG. Cool stuff. We had one night to hunt and were able to save a little history. But we will be back again in the future.

My finds:

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Robert's finds:

 

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[Trezurehunter]

Looks like the first group left you a few nice finds. Those are some coins and relics any of us would be happy with.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Good show sir!

 

[Reanm8er]

Congrats, nice finds! It's been ages since I've seen a graduation key.

 

[A2coins]

The detectors werent as good back then well alot of em anyway well done

 

[devldog]

Bharpring, I thought that place was "Hunted Out". Lol Nice finds and Saved History. Continued Success to you in your return hunts.

 

[against the wind]

Excellent job on the saves, you may want to take a reL good look at that 1916 Mercury. Is there a "D" mint mark?? Wouldn't that be nice?

 

[Mikebk03]

Nice finds, lots of history in BG! Just 25 minutes from me! Congrats!

 

[GB1]

nice finds

 

[Bharpring]

Excellent job on the saves, you may want to take a reL good look at that 1916 Mercury. Is there a "D" mint mark?? Wouldn't that be nice?

Yeah. Heartbreaker

 

[kingskid1611]

I would definitely go back a few times and make good friends with them...….way to cool to pass up. Research the area around it and see if you can follow up on the old farm.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[washingtonian]

Wow, I's say you fellas did pretty well!

 

[thrifty76now]

Great finds by you two.The first group must have been using home made detectors.

 

[Ogre1190]

Well done, both of you! 🙌 Hope you get to go back.

 

[Whyme]

Nice finds! Hit that place again!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice coin shooting!

 

[Rookster]

Awesome hunt.Congrats

 

[Hawks88]

Nice merc. Congrats