Finds from the Dover hunt

ramjet2187 · Nov 5, 2006

Hey everybody. Been a busy weekend. Yesterday, my friends John and Nikki Walsh hosted a hunt near Dover, TN. Some T-Netters, and a couple other diggers stayed at my house and went to the hunt with me. I'll let them tell their stories..........

I am not a 'fast' competition hunter, but choose to be methodical about my search, which is shown by my relative lack of finds, compared to others (one hunter boasted of finding 200 bullets............)

At any rate, I dug about 26 bullets, (dropped and fired); a few buttons, and assorted other goodies; a half-dozen artillery shell fragments; and a round, lead backed copper/brass thingy.....enjoy.

Roger

PS, I dug the breast plate less then 20 feet off the starting line, after all around me had dashed off, swinging their detectors wildly..........

romeo-1 · Nov 6, 2006

Incredible finds! I would kill to hunt an area with history like that! Congrats!

catfishterry · Nov 6, 2006

i sure wish I had a detector when I was growig up down around Cumberland city.

ramjet2187 · Nov 7, 2006

Thanks everybody.

Grib, that's a rare CW Mercury dime. Only one in existance (inside joke, everybody.....I know when it was minted, and the dates of the war.....)

Catfish.......Cumberland City, eh? Halfway point on the river from Ft. Donelson to Clarksville. Had a few troops there.....maybe you should have a 'homecoming'

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Monty, I'm thinking that is a mechanical pencil, or something. It's just a hollow tube, missing the insides........other than that, just another unknown.........Thanks for any help..

Roger

catfishterry · Nov 7, 2006

My Grandfather owned 760 acres including area in the river bottoms that I just found out was an encampment. The people he had bought the property from was the owner of the chevy dealership in dover (Macintosh) of course that was back in the 60's

ringfinder · Nov 7, 2006

Wow, nice finds from all of you, wonder if a Yankee from Ohio could join y'all next year. I've always wanted to do some Civil War hunting. I have found many Civil War items in Ohio, but would really be great to find some down south.

Thanks again for all your posts and pictures. HH, Ringfinder