Friday 5-3-13, Two Large Cents, buttons, cufflink & 1859 IH

[Steve in PA]

I took Friday off to hang out with my younger brother Rich, who just flew in from Colorado for a couple weeks. We usually try to get out with the detectors when he visits. We ended up going to the site where I found several large dandy buttons and three coppers a couple weeks ago. The field is still in corn stubble and the weeds are getting to the point where you can barely push the coil through them but we found a few things. I got an 1829 LC, an 1859 IH, several buttons a cufflink, a thimble, and a spoon handle. Rich found an 1810 LC in pretty rough shape and a small lead filled rosette. The cuff link has a design, but I can't make it out.

The next day we went to a pounded French & Indian War / tavern site. The only interesting find was the neck of a colonial bottle that Rich found in a small stream that runs through the site.

 

[Erving]

Sounds like a good get together with your brother. Congrats to you both on some nice finds.

 

[Mikecoy]

Nice finds! Outside of a few wheats, still looking for old coins over here...

 

[John Boy]

Very nice LC and that cuff link is cool.sweet finds.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

great finds Steve! We gotta find out what cuff link button that is.. hope you can clean it up soon! Good job

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Sooper Dave]

Nice old coppers and buttons! Great job

 

[artyfacts]

Glad that you and your brother got some time together hunting. Nice finds, Those fields are going to be sweet after its turned...

 

[JohnnyMac]

Great hunt

 

[Steve in PA]

Glad that you and your brother got some time together hunting. Nice finds, Those fields are going to be sweet after its turned...

Art, I'm hoping they plow this year, it's just a question of whether I can catch it between plowing and planting. I've found one Spanish silver here and I'm sure there is some more (or even some early US Bust silver).

 

[Erik in NJ]

Nice assortment of finds! And two large cents in the same day is one heck of a day! Bet your brother really enjoyed detecting with you in PA too.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Nice little hunt there Steve. Don't believe I've ever seen a holed LC like that. Very interesting ....

 

[VOL1266-X]

Nice hunt Steve. Youi & Rich were lucky to pull those goodies from the weeds. Too high too hunt here. That 1859 IH is real nice. HH, Q.

 

[flyinryan2]

Very nice finds congrats!!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great stuff! Coppers always equal a solid day in the field.

Cheers,

Buckles

 

[Don in SJ]

Great that you got to hunt with your brother and you both found some decent things, can't beat a day like that.

 

[joeyfresh]

Great finds Steve. What kind of design is cufflink?

 

[Dug]

Wow you have some nice finds there, but what excites me is that bottle top. That is some very early glass. Very crude top, it would be so fantistic to dig a whole bottle. Has to be a trash privy pit out there that had the top scraped off of it. Hope you are lucky enough to find it.

 

[Steve in PA]

Great finds Steve. What kind of design is cufflink?

Joey, I can only see an oval outline with something inside it on the face of the cufflink.

 

[Steve in PA]

Wow you have some nice finds there, but what excites me is that bottle top. That is some very early glass. Very crude top, it would be so fantistic to dig a whole bottle. Has to be a trash privy pit out there that had the top scraped off of it. Hope you are lucky enough to find it.

Dug, the bottle top came from a wooded site we went to the following day, so it's it's not a plowed field where we might be able to see evidence of a trash pit. The site dates to 1758 and was in use until about 1810, so it is a fairly old bottle. The fort and tavern are protected, so we can only hunt the perimeter, and can't dig or probe in the likely spots.