tnt-hunter
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Went back on campus with the CZ 21 today and worked more of the grass strips in the parking lot. Working slowly and gridding it all so I get most of the goodies. Found 100 coins with a face value of $6.08, some keys, a 2005 graduation fob, and then I went back to the soccer field and found some oldies, but goodies.
I can only take about 2 or 3 hours of slow swingin in the junk filled parking strip and finding mostly pennies before I need a break. So today I went back to the soccer field where I found the gold class ring yesterday hoping to make it gold 2 days in a row. It was not to be. I did get a nice high tone that was a small sterling ring with pictographs on it. The sterling mark on the inside is repeated in an odd script I can’t identify.
I found a dropped .58 cal. minieball, an odd style buckel which could be civil war era or could be much newer. I am not sure about the buckel. Then I got another nice high tone I thought was another coin. I popped the plug and pinpointed the target then broke the plug. Sitting right on top was a button. Most of what I find on campus is modern with only a rare oldie from the farm so I thought this was a modern one. It was only 1.5 inches down and it was pretty clean with some dirt caked on the back. It was also in decent shape and the acid soil really eats up the older buttons around here. I had feeling it might be good, but I was not sure so I put it in the padded finds box instead of the nail apron and finished up. When I got home and cleaned the dirt off of the back I saw the writing and knew I had a flat button. On a hunch I looked up 7 pointed star flat button and found out I had a Cherokee Nation button that is believed to have been used by Cherokee who fought with the confederacy during the civil war.
For me this is a bucket listed type find, not because it is on my list (until I found this I didn’t know they existed), but because it is unusual to find this type button in our area. It is shankless but I am really happy and excited about this one anyway.
(I didn’t get a dirt picture of the button because I thought it was modern
)
I am not surprised that I am finding civil war items since there were a lot of troops in the area during the war. Even so it is really great when you find them. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
I can only take about 2 or 3 hours of slow swingin in the junk filled parking strip and finding mostly pennies before I need a break. So today I went back to the soccer field where I found the gold class ring yesterday hoping to make it gold 2 days in a row. It was not to be. I did get a nice high tone that was a small sterling ring with pictographs on it. The sterling mark on the inside is repeated in an odd script I can’t identify.
I found a dropped .58 cal. minieball, an odd style buckel which could be civil war era or could be much newer. I am not sure about the buckel. Then I got another nice high tone I thought was another coin. I popped the plug and pinpointed the target then broke the plug. Sitting right on top was a button. Most of what I find on campus is modern with only a rare oldie from the farm so I thought this was a modern one. It was only 1.5 inches down and it was pretty clean with some dirt caked on the back. It was also in decent shape and the acid soil really eats up the older buttons around here. I had feeling it might be good, but I was not sure so I put it in the padded finds box instead of the nail apron and finished up. When I got home and cleaned the dirt off of the back I saw the writing and knew I had a flat button. On a hunch I looked up 7 pointed star flat button and found out I had a Cherokee Nation button that is believed to have been used by Cherokee who fought with the confederacy during the civil war.
For me this is a bucket listed type find, not because it is on my list (until I found this I didn’t know they existed), but because it is unusual to find this type button in our area. It is shankless but I am really happy and excited about this one anyway.
(I didn’t get a dirt picture of the button because I thought it was modern
)I am not surprised that I am finding civil war items since there were a lot of troops in the area during the war. Even so it is really great when you find them. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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