HUNT WITH IRON PATCH

[cerebus]

IP was silly enough to let me back into his hometown so we decided to detect for about 40 hours!! The days were long and hard, being so out of shape a 12 hour detecting day takes it toll on the body! But ya got to take advantage of the time you have and power through. Being late spring it was tough to find fields that were good to go, but IP always had a backup to the backup, then when that didn't work, was pretty damn good at sweet talking the ladies into letting us hunt new fields. :lmao
Got my first 3rd american with loop intact, which was my main hope for the trip. A nice 37th from a field I was suicidal on. lol. Pewter with crown, not sure of ID though. Not all the kings americans were from this hunt, the worst was from this one, but I haven't posted the pics of them here before and they have all come from hunts with IRON PATCH so just throwing the pic with them all up there. Came out the wrong axis though lol.
We dug a lot of stuff, IP is the man and I always appreciate him putting up with me for a few days. Will be back in early July, any luck we will kick some new sites ass

 

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[Iron Patch]

Congrats. You found some really nice stuff. That 37 button looks like a 37th regiment of foot (North Hampshire). I've read that style is pewter (mostly here), but also read from sites they are copper alloy, silvered. Most seem to suggest 1790 to 1810. Iron patch knows about them. Great finds there! Those crowns are sweet...anchors too.

I am familiar because I found two of them. Both of mine have backmarks so date to the 1812 period. It was hard to tell if the one Cerebus found did, and it seemed like it had a reasonable chance to be early because at the point he found it all that came out was the early shoe buckle I had found... but more digging, and five 1800s buttons later, his likely does date the same as mine.

 

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[Tommy G]

Man, that's a lot of finds! I'm in pretty good shape, but just looking at that collection makes me tired. Way to hang in there! Thanks for sharing.