Dug Civil War Buckle Number 28 Today.. ;-)

[MonkeyBoy]

Just started hunting a 1748 house with a few hundred acres.. dug one eagle button, 6 or 7 flat/pewter buttons, a V nic, a silver quarter and right as I was leaving I decided to walk the field a bit. The grass is really tall so I put the 12" coil on and 3 minutes into the field dug a Eagle Plate just a couple inches in the ground!!! Hunted a little bit longer.. nothing!! I will have to wait till the hay is cut...

MonkeyBoy

 

[{Sentinel}]

Congrats

 

[Digginman]

No pics Hope to see some.

Congrats.

DM

 

[Findone]

Awesome! Congratulations.
Leon

 

[MonkeyBoy]

No pics Hope to see some.

Congrats.

DM

Well... I was being lazy .. I'll try to get some in a bit...

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Awesome! Congratulations.
Leon

Thanks...

Semper Fi

 

[MonkeyBoy]

How very nice, congratulations, but we need photos. You've found so many CW buckles, do you ever say, "oh darn, another Civil War buckle?" LOL IF you do, you can always send one or two to me.

HA!! No... I can honestly say that thought has never crossed my mind!!! Years ago.. back in the days of digging 100s of 3 ringers in a day.. yeah.. I would get a little tired of it.. hoping for something a little better.. but those days are long since over too!!!

 

[civilman1]

Put them all together Mark.....Has to look awesome.Congrat's on#28

 

[kindafoundabuckle]

pics PLEASE!!!!!!!!

 

[BuckleBoy]

pics PLEASE!!!!!!!!

No kidding!

So it was a Sword Belt Plate? Silver wreath or cast wreath?

 

[Mona Lisa]

Mark??!? No pictures?? Do we have to use our imaginations?? 8)

 

[liftloop]

nice finds you think the supper loop helped, oboy just pulled a tic off me there back

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Im new here ,and would love to see all 28 plates.I love looking at civil war stuff.. Thanks,relicdude

 

[MonkeyBoy]

I've been trying to attach the picture to the top post.. but ti would not upload.. so here is a crappy one for now..

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Yo MonkeyMan, you gots any C-Fed plates up in dat big ol collekshun of yours?

Wellll... I have a burned brass plate I dug out of a fire pit and a carbine sling buckle form the same camp.. so.. those count!! ( to me at least!!)

Oh, and a medium frame fork tongue from the Battle of Drainsville..

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Im new here ,and would love to see all 28 plates.I love looking at civil war stuff.. Thanks,relicdude

Here is to a Best Finds post from last year... with 24 of them..

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,77973.0.html

MonkeyBoy

 

[MonkeyBoy]

pics PLEASE!!!!!!!!

No kidding!

So it was a Sword Belt Plate? Silver wreath or cast wreath?

I wish!! but no.. it was a round Eagle Plate.. we call them Breast Plates in my neck of the woods.. just sounds better!! ;-)

 

[BuckleBoy]

pics PLEASE!!!!!!!!

No kidding!

So it was a Sword Belt Plate? Silver wreath or cast wreath?

I wish!! but no.. it was a round Eagle Plate.. we call them Breast Plates in my neck of the woods.. just sounds better!! ;-)

Shoulder Belt Plate.

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Thanks for the link,Man those are some sweet finds..Goodluck at the 1748 homesite place..Relicdude

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

Very nice breast plate, I lived on 90 acres that was all used as confederate and union camps and still never found a plate. I had 5 trenches that were still waist to chest deep, a graveyard with 53 of the 57 graves dug and moved (holes still there). know exactly where the rebs camped, know exactly where the Union calvery stayed, and also the place that everyone had there leatherwork done. AND NOT ONE PLATE. sorry for the rant, Great plate.