McCDig
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- Jan 31, 2015
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- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F75
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Got out Friday AM to Bel Air and Saturday AM to Baltimore.
Friday started out with a tombac button. It is shown next to a shallow U-frame shaped piece that has a primitive decoration of 9 dots at each end and a pattern between them that may be taken to be a key. Could this have been attached to a lock? It looks period with the tombac buttons (2) and large cent, half cent , and shoe buckle fragment that have come from this area. After that I shot into the woods and collected 19 shotgun backmarks. The best are pictured: 5 UMC, 2 Winchester, and 1 US; the UMC Nitro Club has the petals surrounding the primer, which dates it to the 1890s.
Baltimore on Saturday was a drizzle all the way. $2 in clad, a 1913 wheat, a 1983 McDonald's token and a late 19th century heart pendant was the take. When I dug the token I thought I had a silver dollar; it is the same diameter as one and has a reeded edge.
Fun to get out. Hunting at Druid made me extra thankful to being able to look for relics in Bel Air, where the "trash" in the ground is mostly iron.
Happy Hunting!

Friday started out with a tombac button. It is shown next to a shallow U-frame shaped piece that has a primitive decoration of 9 dots at each end and a pattern between them that may be taken to be a key. Could this have been attached to a lock? It looks period with the tombac buttons (2) and large cent, half cent , and shoe buckle fragment that have come from this area. After that I shot into the woods and collected 19 shotgun backmarks. The best are pictured: 5 UMC, 2 Winchester, and 1 US; the UMC Nitro Club has the petals surrounding the primer, which dates it to the 1890s.
Baltimore on Saturday was a drizzle all the way. $2 in clad, a 1913 wheat, a 1983 McDonald's token and a late 19th century heart pendant was the take. When I dug the token I thought I had a silver dollar; it is the same diameter as one and has a reeded edge.
Fun to get out. Hunting at Druid made me extra thankful to being able to look for relics in Bel Air, where the "trash" in the ground is mostly iron.
Happy Hunting!

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