Field of Legends: The Bounty

[SouthJerseyJim]

These last 3 months have been the best detecting of my life. My Mom, Arty and I have been like giddy school girls just thinking what we were going to find when we made return trips to these amazing fields. Its crazy how many signals AREN'T there now. We spent a good 8 hours yesterday hunting some new fields and some familiar fields and I did pretty well. Pulled 5 more coppers from 3 different fields and a handful of buttons. We have almost exhausted all of our nooks and crannies in these fields that hold relics. They are not going to plow this year so we will have to wait til next year before we can expect to find much more. I took a bunch of pics last night of all of the coppers,buttons,spanish,silver, and pieces of shoe buckles, Nipple buttons, Military buttons, Musket balls etc. I found a total of 36 Large coppers, 298 Buttons, 4 17th century copper that I can Id...4 spanish, 6 17th Nipple buttons, 6 military buttons and a mess of old relics.

With fishing season in almost full swing and the warmer weather and bug filled woods and fields yesterday may have been my last trip to the fields of legend. So I decided to do a total now to see just what exactly was found for future reference. Thanks for looking and can't wait for more fields like these! But I doubt we will find similiar ones in my lifetime. Thanks to Mom and Arty for being awesome hunting partners. Until next time.

 

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[63bkpkr]

Wow! What a lot of hunting, what a lot of great finds. Nothing like working with good friends in a great area! Were these only your finds are are these the groups total finds? Best of luck in finding another field like the ones you've just been through........................63bkpkr

 

[joe_dirt]

Wow, impressive collection of finds. Glad to hear you had so much fun.

 

[Westfront]

Thats a very good field and will produce some years to come. When not out fishing you have lots of work cleaning and preserving those finds and make a BIG display case to enjoy every time you look at it!

 

[Evolution]

What an amazing amount of relics. Those fields were really good to you guys.

 

[SouthJerseyJim]

Clean? I thought I did with the toothbrush . Thanks guys these are my finds only. The three of us are going to get together and make one massive display.

 

[fishstick]

Clean? I thought I did with the toothbrush . Thanks guys these are my finds only. The three of us are going to get together and make one massive display.

That will be one HECK OF A POST!!!!!!!! You will never forget that field and the GREAT times you all have had there.... THANX for all the AWESOME pics and stories!!! HH

 

[ChrisNJ]

Looks like a lifetimes worth of finds to me, huge congrats, any idea on the history of the fields? Was there a tavern or something there ?

 

[Silver Worm]

Awesome, dude, totally friggin awesome!

 

[Lcb24kt]

Awesome! WOW! That's alot of digging! You guys did great!

 

[jewelerguy]

DANG!

 

[cjon455]

killer finds, i love the coppers and buttons, nice digs!!!!

 

[harley1865]

Awesome

 

[dig kzoo]

Wow that is awesome!!!

 

[BosnMate]

You got my attention, I'm eating my heart out. Wow, you have a great place to hunt.

 

[jerseyben]

The man, the myth, the legend! Congrats!!!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

That's an amazing haul for just one site Jim. I've seen sites produce buttons in that quantity, but never close to that number of copper coins. I know you guys had a ball. Hope the plowing comes soon for you guys. Wish they did that around here.

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

The man, the myth, the legend! Congrats!!!

I agree , ya' all make SJ relic hunters Proud , a bucket full of Treasure

 

[milk86]

that was a LOT of digging....sure was worth it though

 

[duchess of digging]

awesome...totally awesome!!!