🥇 BANNER Incredibly epic Civil War Trash pit dig. 7 plates in 1 hole, leather pieces, hooks et

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Had the most incredible day digging in the Fredericksburg area the other day. After not finding much things changed very quickly. Here are most of the finds from 1 trash pit minus some of the leather. Basically I was hunting a CW camp and had a pretty choppy signal after opening the hole signal got a little better. Down about 12 inches I saw the breast plate lying vertically and was pumped to have found that but then I noticed another shape under the breast plate and that was the US boxplate right under it. I then opened the hole and noticed leather fragments everywhere, the pin pointer and detector were screaming. I proceeded to save 5 box plates and 2 breast plates, tons of leather with hooks attached, scabbard tips, waist adjusters, iron buckles, 2 canteen spouts one with a name or carved initials, rivets, etc all in one small hole about 2 feet wide. Needless to say it was a day I will never forget. Just shows you there are still honey holes left so keep swinging. I feel so blessed to have been fortunate to save these pieces of history and certainly will be looking for more pits.
 

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Awesome! Looks like a couple of Knapp sacks too. Incredible find. Looks like they salvaged the US waist buckles and burned the belt rigs.
 

Now that's one for the relic hunters dreams! Pure amazement. :notworthy:
 

I'm tempted to hammer out a steady stream of unintelligible curse words here, so instead all I'll say is CONGRATULATIONS. :occasion14:
 

Had the most incredible day digging in the Fredericksburg area the other day. After not finding much things changed very quickly. Here are most of the finds from 1 trash pit minus some of the leather. Basically I was hunting a CW camp and had a pretty choppy signal after opening the hole signal got a little better. Down about 12 inches I saw the breast plate lying vertically and was pumped to have found that but then I noticed another shape under the breast plate and that was the US boxplate right under it. I then opened the hole and noticed leather fragments everywhere, the pin pointer and detector were screaming. I proceeded to save 5 box plates and 2 breast plates, tons of leather with hooks attached, scabbard tips, waist adjusters, iron buckles, 2 canteen spouts one with a name or carved initials, rivets, etc all in one small hole about 2 feet wide. Needless to say it was a day I will never forget. Just shows you there are still honey holes left so keep swinging. I feel so blessed to have been fortunate to save these pieces of history and certainly will be looking for more pits.

Super Finds...! :icon_thumright:
...by any chance, did you find any bones in the mix, too...? :laughing7:
Yeah, what a special day you had...!
 

That is incredible, thats more than a life time find for most of us.
 

ANYBODY WANT A DETECTOR CAUSE MINE MUST BE BROKEN > UNREAL CONGRATS>
 

Incredible Finds! ....Congrats!!
 

Incredible find , congrats Gregg3131 !
 

Congrats for the banner. Nice finds!
 

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Congratulations on an epic hunt.

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Thanks for all the wonderful comments and the banner.
 

Wow!! Incredible finds!

Nicely done.

All the best,

Lanny
 

My 7 suck big time compared to yours...
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Great save! That is a dream day for anyone. Save some for the rest of us.

Saftgeek-
 

Absolutely amazing find! I know the excitement I have digging a minie ball so I can’t imagine your reaction to all that. Congrats.HH
 

Thanks all
 

AH SHUCKS THAT AINT NOTHING .. HELL IT AINT.
 

Epic! Congratulations!
 

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