KYshooter
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I had a great week this week. No decent coins to speak of, but I keep pulling curious relics out of this old Kentucky ground.
My first (and coolest) find this week was on Monday. While hunting a familiar piece of ground, I got a sketchy but repeating signal at eight inches. By far the deepest target I've dug on the site.
I was mystified when I pulled this out of the ground ...
Here's a reverse view.
I had no clue what it was. A disc with a curious General Service eagle and a strangely wide shield. Kuger, on this forum, quickly identified it as a "sash" belt buckle from around 1855. It was marketed for both civilian and military use, and is apparently one of the rarer forms. He posted a picture of an intact buckle here ...
Here is a picture of it in context, with several other (what I believe are) Civil War era artifacts from the same site:
Then yesterday I hunted for a short while at a couple of different sites. I hunted an old home site near a Civil War skirmish location with Western Kentucky Digger in the morning. I only found a very small, shankless, flat button.
Afterwards, I went downtown to our local park. It is SOOOOOOO trashy, so I was only digging deep targets. Then I got this solid 42-44 VDI signal at about 4 inches in depth. Flipped the plug and found this little baby!
It's 15 mm, and either a Yankee cuff or kepi button. Still has a little gilt on it.
Here's a pic with a ruler for perspective:
Curiously, it was a tin-back button, as evidenced by the rust ...
This led me to have some authenticity doubts, since there have been re-enactments on this site for the last two years or so ... but I have difficulty believing that a button could go that deep in that short a period of time. I'e consulted with a couple of local CW diggers, who have assured me that there were, indeed, tin-back versions of this size button, especially on the kepi hats. The ones I've talked to seem to think that it's the real deal.
It was located on very old ground right along the main road into town, less than 50 yards (as the crow flies) from where I found all of the other items in this post.
Pretty cool ...
Here's my latest video, with both of these finds and more. Enjoy, and HH!
[youtube=425,350]pNFrM8Ju9_8[/youtube]
My first (and coolest) find this week was on Monday. While hunting a familiar piece of ground, I got a sketchy but repeating signal at eight inches. By far the deepest target I've dug on the site.
I was mystified when I pulled this out of the ground ...
Here's a reverse view.
I had no clue what it was. A disc with a curious General Service eagle and a strangely wide shield. Kuger, on this forum, quickly identified it as a "sash" belt buckle from around 1855. It was marketed for both civilian and military use, and is apparently one of the rarer forms. He posted a picture of an intact buckle here ...
Here is a picture of it in context, with several other (what I believe are) Civil War era artifacts from the same site:
Then yesterday I hunted for a short while at a couple of different sites. I hunted an old home site near a Civil War skirmish location with Western Kentucky Digger in the morning. I only found a very small, shankless, flat button.
Afterwards, I went downtown to our local park. It is SOOOOOOO trashy, so I was only digging deep targets. Then I got this solid 42-44 VDI signal at about 4 inches in depth. Flipped the plug and found this little baby!
It's 15 mm, and either a Yankee cuff or kepi button. Still has a little gilt on it.
Here's a pic with a ruler for perspective:
Curiously, it was a tin-back button, as evidenced by the rust ...
This led me to have some authenticity doubts, since there have been re-enactments on this site for the last two years or so ... but I have difficulty believing that a button could go that deep in that short a period of time. I'e consulted with a couple of local CW diggers, who have assured me that there were, indeed, tin-back versions of this size button, especially on the kepi hats. The ones I've talked to seem to think that it's the real deal.
It was located on very old ground right along the main road into town, less than 50 yards (as the crow flies) from where I found all of the other items in this post.
Pretty cool ...
Here's my latest video, with both of these finds and more. Enjoy, and HH!
[youtube=425,350]pNFrM8Ju9_8[/youtube]
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