Nana40
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I Wanna TELL!!....But I Can't!!!
After last weeks fiasco with the 'frozen dirt', Lisa and I decided to take advantage of the warm weather we had this week. We ended up getting out three different days. First day was looking for a site that I had spotted on one of the old maps, and it happened to be on one of my friends property that we frequent.
Get to the site, scoot under the barb wire and get to searching...
The site we're looking for should be somewhere at the bottom of this hill.
At the bottom of the hill is a spring. It winds around and ends up here....
Only problem is, seems the cows love to have their gatherings here and with all the rains we've had, their heavy traffic had made our happy hunting grounds one big mud hole. :P We did manage a few square nails and a some canning jar lids, but we decide to move on to another site for the rest of the day. Only had a couple of hours before dark. Here's what I came home with...
Next day out we went to back to an old favorite. Lisa was about an hour behind me and I had only found a button to put into my keeper pocket by the time she arrived.
We doodle around and I find a really neat belt buckle and a two toned canning jar lid. I don't normally keep the lids unless they're a kind that I've never found. (thought it was neat)
Found this strange cup looking thing....
There's an old house here that has easy access to the bottom side. A couple of years ago we ducked under there, but didn't find much of anything. With my pocket on the empty side, I look at Lisa and tell her I'm going in!
Didn't take her long to gather up her DFX and get to huntin'....
It was pretty dark under there, so I could only rely on the tone to decide wheather or not to dig. (I forgot I had one of those head lamps) :P Anyhow, from the back of the house it's not too bad, but the closer I got to the front, I found myself in a space that had maybe two feet from the ground to the bottom of the flooring. I started getting really good tones and scooping up the goodies. It was difficult to tell exactly what I had, but could see that the silver coin I had found was a Barber. A few more minutes and it was time crawl out and see what I had found. Ended up with two wheats: 1909 and 1910! No VDB...but exciting to look and see. Got two Injun's...1901 and 1906 and then the Barber dime...1907. Also found a 1953 wheat at another spot at the end of the hunt.
I 'bout had a heart attack when I found the top side of a little silver looking storage container, but nothing else in the hole.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
Friday we had planned on hunting a particular site, but got side tracked and visited another. Was a neat place on the top of a mountain. Spent most of the afternoon there and had a couple of nicknack's in my pocket. Something that had sterling silver stamped on it..maybe part of a picture frame?
The day was almost over, but we wanted to hit the site that we started out for. I really didn't think I did all that well at this spot. A little disc here, a little clip there, but was satisfied with being able to get out and hunt. After I got home, I cleaned up what few items I had and notice some writing on the little disc. It looked like some kind of check tag, but where the hole on the top was had a rusty blob blocking the writing it had stamped on it.
I couldn't stand not knowing what it said, so I worked on removing the blob. I popped off the majority of the rusty and started soaking and cleaning with a toothpick. What I found was as exciting to me as finding a gold coin! I can't reveal what this little tag goes to without revealing my site. Can only tell that it is somewhat historical and I am THRILLED to have found it! (It's NOT a miners tag 
) 
End of the day pics....
Have a great weekend!!
Nana
After last weeks fiasco with the 'frozen dirt', Lisa and I decided to take advantage of the warm weather we had this week. We ended up getting out three different days. First day was looking for a site that I had spotted on one of the old maps, and it happened to be on one of my friends property that we frequent.
Get to the site, scoot under the barb wire and get to searching...
The site we're looking for should be somewhere at the bottom of this hill.
At the bottom of the hill is a spring. It winds around and ends up here....
Only problem is, seems the cows love to have their gatherings here and with all the rains we've had, their heavy traffic had made our happy hunting grounds one big mud hole. :P We did manage a few square nails and a some canning jar lids, but we decide to move on to another site for the rest of the day. Only had a couple of hours before dark. Here's what I came home with...
Next day out we went to back to an old favorite. Lisa was about an hour behind me and I had only found a button to put into my keeper pocket by the time she arrived.
We doodle around and I find a really neat belt buckle and a two toned canning jar lid. I don't normally keep the lids unless they're a kind that I've never found. (thought it was neat)
Found this strange cup looking thing....
There's an old house here that has easy access to the bottom side. A couple of years ago we ducked under there, but didn't find much of anything. With my pocket on the empty side, I look at Lisa and tell her I'm going in!
Didn't take her long to gather up her DFX and get to huntin'....
It was pretty dark under there, so I could only rely on the tone to decide wheather or not to dig. (I forgot I had one of those head lamps) :P Anyhow, from the back of the house it's not too bad, but the closer I got to the front, I found myself in a space that had maybe two feet from the ground to the bottom of the flooring. I started getting really good tones and scooping up the goodies. It was difficult to tell exactly what I had, but could see that the silver coin I had found was a Barber. A few more minutes and it was time crawl out and see what I had found. Ended up with two wheats: 1909 and 1910! No VDB...but exciting to look and see.
Got two Injun's...1901 and 1906 and then the Barber dime...1907. Also found a 1953 wheat at another spot at the end of the hunt.
I 'bout had a heart attack when I found the top side of a little silver looking storage container, but nothing else in the hole.
Friday we had planned on hunting a particular site, but got side tracked and visited another. Was a neat place on the top of a mountain. Spent most of the afternoon there and had a couple of nicknack's in my pocket. Something that had sterling silver stamped on it..maybe part of a picture frame?
The day was almost over, but we wanted to hit the site that we started out for. I really didn't think I did all that well at this spot. A little disc here, a little clip there, but was satisfied with being able to get out and hunt. After I got home, I cleaned up what few items I had and notice some writing on the little disc. It looked like some kind of check tag, but where the hole on the top was had a rusty blob blocking the writing it had stamped on it.
I couldn't stand not knowing what it said, so I worked on removing the blob. I popped off the majority of the rusty and started soaking and cleaning with a toothpick. What I found was as exciting to me as finding a gold coin! I can't reveal what this little tag goes to without revealing my site.
Can only tell that it is somewhat historical and I am THRILLED to have found it! (It's NOT a miners tag )
End of the day pics....
Have a great weekend!!
Nana
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