Nana40
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OH my gosh ya'll! I am so glad to have someone to share detecting stories with~! 
Remember the Eagle button that I found a couple of weeks ago?
Well here's the story today.
Got all my usual Monday morning things done and the weather was so nice and sunny. Seventy two degrees. Perfect. I had been studying my maps and knew that there was another old homesite very near to the place where I found the eagle button. The place where I thought it might be was in the pasture, but on top of the mountain. :P I had already made up my mind that today would just be a recon day. Really didn't expect to find much, but looked forward to the day out. After a long trek up the mountain and a couple of minutes of rest, I began to find iron! Yea! First good sign! I wanted to know what the iron was so I started diggin. First the nails and then some what's it's then a buckle! Neat! Ok...I am on to something here. Get a really big horseshoe and then a little grey button. I have run out of water and decided to call it a day but I can't leave here without a good pic of the scenery! So I go all the way back to the car, rest a few minutes, drink some water and slowly go back up that mountain. After the rest and the pics were made, I just had to spend a few more minutes detecting before leaving again. Glad I did! Dug up a heel plate and there was a piece of pottery in there with it! Now! That's what I am looking for! Where there's pottery...there was a house! By this time the crickets are starting their chirping and it's getting bout time to leave so I decide that I will dig ONE MORE good signal.
And yep....there it was..A nice Eagle button with a back!!!!! It says Waterbury Scovill MFG CO
Now I gotta run a cook some dinner. I'm pooped!
Hope ya had a great day too!
Nana
Remember the Eagle button that I found a couple of weeks ago?
Well here's the story today.
Got all my usual Monday morning things done and the weather was so nice and sunny. Seventy two degrees. Perfect. I had been studying my maps and knew that there was another old homesite very near to the place where I found the eagle button. The place where I thought it might be was in the pasture, but on top of the mountain. :P I had already made up my mind that today would just be a recon day. Really didn't expect to find much, but looked forward to the day out. After a long trek up the mountain and a couple of minutes of rest, I began to find iron! Yea! First good sign! I wanted to know what the iron was so I started diggin. First the nails and then some what's it's then a buckle! Neat! Ok...I am on to something here. Get a really big horseshoe and then a little grey button. I have run out of water and decided to call it a day but I can't leave here without a good pic of the scenery! So I go all the way back to the car, rest a few minutes, drink some water and slowly go back up that mountain. After the rest and the pics were made, I just had to spend a few more minutes detecting before leaving again. Glad I did! Dug up a heel plate and there was a piece of pottery in there with it! Now! That's what I am looking for! Where there's pottery...there was a house! By this time the crickets are starting their chirping and it's getting bout time to leave so I decide that I will dig ONE MORE good signal.
And yep....there it was..A nice Eagle button with a back!!!!! It says Waterbury Scovill MFG CONow I gotta run a cook some dinner. I'm pooped!
Hope ya had a great day too!
Nana
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