Got a SWEET Eagle Breast Plate and more…...

[Mike from MI]

I went with some friends down to VA a couple weeks ago in search of CW relics. First day we hunted an old stand by place that has always produced. Well it did again. My best find there was a beautiful Eagle Breast Plate! It sure was exciting pulling it from the ground. While digging it up, I first noticed the flat white lead and the curve to the outside of the plate. When I had enough dirt off to see it was a circle shape I knew what it had to be. As I puled it from the ground I seen that sweet eagle looking back at me! Yeeee Haaaa!!! While there I also got a nice NY cuff button, and some bullets including a what I believe is a Richmond arsenal high base wormed out two ringer. Also one half of a sash buckle. The next 3 days was spent on a different site with more friends and the worse mineralized ground on the planet. I did manage a large cent, a smashed bullet, several buttons including early colonial, a sword scabbard tip, and several misc… relics. The one flat button that has a London back mark still has some type of thread on the loop. Sure was fun to go southeast and dig CW relics again. Cant wait to do it again.

 

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[tennessee digger]

You really did good. Congrats.

 

[vpnavy]

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice finds. Your scabbard drag may be confederate since it is iron instead of brass. The pulled bullet is a CS Gardner. Congrats on the Breastplate and the early buttons tell me there may be a cut Spanish pistareen in there somewhere.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet finds!

 

[texjim]

Great finds...

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[against the wind]

Congrats on all your finds,, especially the Eagle Plate.

 

[relic nut]

That's a heck of a hunt!!! Doesn't happen like that every day. Congrats!

HH RN

 

[nov2101]

Very cool especially the time of season...

 

[Mike from MI]

Thanks for the ID on the bullet.

Nice finds. Your scabbard drag may be confederate since it is iron instead of brass. The pulled bullet is a CS Gardner. Congrats on the Breastplate and the early buttons tell me there may be a cut Spanish pistareen in there somewhere.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Trezurehunter]

That is a very nice Eagle Plate. That find in itself would have made the trip worthwhile for me.