Hill Billy
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Dug in KY--1783 COPPER--and it isn't a King George!!!
Well folks I'm on cloud 9 right now.
I met up with BuckleBoy yesterday morning for a day of swinging the coils. We started out with some breakfast to satisfy our hunger for the day. We got on the road and started our hunt for land owners to gain permission to tear up their fields. Well the first was a bust. Landowner squeaked out the drive before we could turn around and talk to them. We then made our way to the next one on the list, pinpointed it but again no land owner to ask.We then headed on down the road to the next spot where we ran across an old man driving down the road. I stopped him and asked if he knew who owned the field down the street? he said yes, they own 4700 acres right here. That's 8 square miles. Then we asked him if he knew how to get in touch with the owner and he rambled on about where the owner lived and gave us her name. We go ogled her name, got her number and address and took off looking for her. While we were driving to find her, we spoke to someone we have become good friends with who knew who leased the land from her for farming. He gave us his number and said he would be our best bet to get on her property. Said the family was kinda nuts.
We called and nobody answered. We then realized all of the sites we had to hunt were all on this woman's property. We were screwed...so we thought.
We decided to go see our new friend who is always helpful and gives free opinions. We had a map of his area and asked him if he knew hi neighbor a 1/2 mile down the street? He said yes, my son knows him real well. We called his son who then called the neighbor to gain permission for us to search his land. He said sure go right ahead. 3 sites on this mans land. First site, tons of big iron and can slaw, but hey, we are finally digging at 3 in the afternoon, started at 9. We decided to move on to site #2, same results tons of slaw and iron. Now we are getting frustrated, it's 4 o'clock and we've got nothing to show.
. Off to the last site. Now this site the farmer says you guys can go down there and look for it, but don't dig in my crop I have planted. He then said, only dig in there if you know it's a good target. OK ,we were wondering if this day was gonna get any better or not. Hooray, no canslaw at this site, pottery and stoneware were all over the place. We started swinging, and the finds were coming slowly. We found a few brass items, part of a stirrup, a small buckle, and some flat strapped brass. Not much else was coming up until I got the hit of the day. Oh boy it was a good one. Copper! I didn't want to clean it in the field for fear of messing it up. When I got home and started to clean, I couldn't believe my eyes. A 1783 NOVA was now staring me in the face. My best find I think I have ever made. It needs more cleaning , but would like to clean it right so I don't lose detail. I'm stoked.
YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAW
Hill Billy
Well folks I'm on cloud 9 right now.
I met up with BuckleBoy yesterday morning for a day of swinging the coils. We started out with some breakfast to satisfy our hunger for the day. We got on the road and started our hunt for land owners to gain permission to tear up their fields. Well the first was a bust. Landowner squeaked out the drive before we could turn around and talk to them. We then made our way to the next one on the list, pinpointed it but again no land owner to ask.We then headed on down the road to the next spot where we ran across an old man driving down the road. I stopped him and asked if he knew who owned the field down the street? he said yes, they own 4700 acres right here. That's 8 square miles. Then we asked him if he knew how to get in touch with the owner and he rambled on about where the owner lived and gave us her name. We go ogled her name, got her number and address and took off looking for her. While we were driving to find her, we spoke to someone we have become good friends with who knew who leased the land from her for farming. He gave us his number and said he would be our best bet to get on her property. Said the family was kinda nuts.
We called and nobody answered. We then realized all of the sites we had to hunt were all on this woman's property. We were screwed...so we thought.
We decided to go see our new friend who is always helpful and gives free opinions. We had a map of his area and asked him if he knew hi neighbor a 1/2 mile down the street? He said yes, my son knows him real well. We called his son who then called the neighbor to gain permission for us to search his land. He said sure go right ahead. 3 sites on this mans land. First site, tons of big iron and can slaw, but hey, we are finally digging at 3 in the afternoon, started at 9. We decided to move on to site #2, same results tons of slaw and iron. Now we are getting frustrated, it's 4 o'clock and we've got nothing to show.
. Off to the last site. Now this site the farmer says you guys can go down there and look for it, but don't dig in my crop I have planted. He then said, only dig in there if you know it's a good target. OK ,we were wondering if this day was gonna get any better or not. Hooray, no canslaw at this site, pottery and stoneware were all over the place. We started swinging, and the finds were coming slowly. We found a few brass items, part of a stirrup, a small buckle, and some flat strapped brass. Not much else was coming up until I got the hit of the day. Oh boy it was a good one. Copper! I didn't want to clean it in the field for fear of messing it up. When I got home and started to clean, I couldn't believe my eyes. A 1783 NOVA was now staring me in the face. My best find I think I have ever made. It needs more cleaning , but would like to clean it right so I don't lose detail. I'm stoked.YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAW
Hill Billy
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a big congrats too you as well 
