MonkeyBoy
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"Freebie" goes to Landowner's Son 1858 Flying Eagle
While I was out digging today, a truck drove past e 3 times... rather slow. He finally stopped and was a neighbor of the property owner where I was digging. Long story short, there is an old burned mill and millers house on his property. This was burned during a raid into Loudoun County by the Union. I dug there years ago, before the farm it is on was divided up and sold, and found a bunch of relics. He was digging out inside of the house and had three piles of dirt from last winter. He has a lot of stone to move since one wall came down inside the structure.. he asked me to hit the piles and the inside of the house foundation... inside was impossible.. too many rocks.. but the first pile I hit... 30 seconds into it I get a nice mid 50s reading.. turned out to be a really nice 1858 Flying Eagle.. He was pretty excited about it.. we exchanged numbers and I am going to hook him up with some sifters.... I didn't feel to bad about giving away the FE... I have a few and there was a Civil War eagle plate sitting in my Jeep from earlier in the day... so I'll chalk that up to good karma points.
MB
While I was out digging today, a truck drove past e 3 times... rather slow. He finally stopped and was a neighbor of the property owner where I was digging. Long story short, there is an old burned mill and millers house on his property. This was burned during a raid into Loudoun County by the Union. I dug there years ago, before the farm it is on was divided up and sold, and found a bunch of relics. He was digging out inside of the house and had three piles of dirt from last winter. He has a lot of stone to move since one wall came down inside the structure.. he asked me to hit the piles and the inside of the house foundation... inside was impossible.. too many rocks.. but the first pile I hit... 30 seconds into it I get a nice mid 50s reading.. turned out to be a really nice 1858 Flying Eagle.. He was pretty excited about it.. we exchanged numbers and I am going to hook him up with some sifters.... I didn't feel to bad about giving away the FE... I have a few and there was a Civil War eagle plate sitting in my Jeep from earlier in the day... so I'll chalk that up to good karma points.
MB
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