diggergrl
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Iron Brigade and BuckleDad's First Hunt of 2009
Hey all! Here's my second post of finds on this forum:
With BuclkeDad in town and the weather in the upper 50's for the first weekend of the year, a couple days spent metal detecting were inevitable. BuclkeBoy had several old house sites in mind for us, which we hunted over two days. The first spot was shown to us by a local farmer some time ago. When we came back to get permission and start hunting on Saturday, he was out of town but luckily BuckleBoy had his cell phone number and called for long-distance permission; just goes to show that good rapport with the land owners goes a long way.
Here's a photo of BuckleDad on the site:
Signs of the house were evident from the beginning, with broken pottery and brick littering the ground. The finds started coming as soon as we started swinging. RodeoRecon dug an indian head penny right away, and I dug the next one almost immediately. A total of four indian heads came out of the ground at this site as well as some harmonica reed pieces, spoons, two terrets, and a bunch of organ reeds (we found the reeds to a Major Triad: D, F-sharp, and A
)
Here are photos of RodeoRecon's penny and me holding my penny.
The second day we started to hunt an old house site. Unfortunately, the driveway for the current house ran right through where the house sat and all that came out of the ground was aluminum and 6 wheat-ear pennies. We realized that we needed a new site fast, and BuckleBoy hopped in the car to go ask permission at an old school house site which was within view of where we were hunting. BuckleBoy got the permissison and shuttled us down the road to the new spot.
Here's a photo of Kindafoundabuckle on the new site.
This school site had its drawbacks as well, namely in the form of a too-friendly dog that wouldn't stop jumping around us and nibbling on our coats. BuckleBoy had to frighten it off several times to keep it from slobbering on the crew or breaking a machine. Here's a photo of me, BuckleDad and the dog before we realized it was a problem.
At this spot, BuckleBoy got two indian head pennies and BuckleDad got one as well, all concentrated around to one side of where the school sat. By this point, the cold had started to get to Kindafoundabuckle (we expected the 50 degree weather to last through the day, but by this point, the windchill was about 35 degrees!) and he spent the rest of the time in the car, playing with his new iphone. I dug a good luck token that was an advertisement for "Old Prentice Whisky."
Here's a photo of our finds before cleaning.
And here's our finds all cleaned up.
The front and back sides of my token.
Thanks for looking!
Diggergrl
Hey all! Here's my second post of finds on this forum:
With BuclkeDad in town and the weather in the upper 50's for the first weekend of the year, a couple days spent metal detecting were inevitable. BuclkeBoy had several old house sites in mind for us, which we hunted over two days. The first spot was shown to us by a local farmer some time ago. When we came back to get permission and start hunting on Saturday, he was out of town but luckily BuckleBoy had his cell phone number and called for long-distance permission; just goes to show that good rapport with the land owners goes a long way.
Here's a photo of BuckleDad on the site:
Signs of the house were evident from the beginning, with broken pottery and brick littering the ground. The finds started coming as soon as we started swinging. RodeoRecon dug an indian head penny right away, and I dug the next one almost immediately. A total of four indian heads came out of the ground at this site as well as some harmonica reed pieces, spoons, two terrets, and a bunch of organ reeds (we found the reeds to a Major Triad: D, F-sharp, and A
)Here are photos of RodeoRecon's penny and me holding my penny.
The second day we started to hunt an old house site. Unfortunately, the driveway for the current house ran right through where the house sat and all that came out of the ground was aluminum and 6 wheat-ear pennies. We realized that we needed a new site fast, and BuckleBoy hopped in the car to go ask permission at an old school house site which was within view of where we were hunting. BuckleBoy got the permissison and shuttled us down the road to the new spot.
Here's a photo of Kindafoundabuckle on the new site.
This school site had its drawbacks as well, namely in the form of a too-friendly dog that wouldn't stop jumping around us and nibbling on our coats. BuckleBoy had to frighten it off several times to keep it from slobbering on the crew or breaking a machine. Here's a photo of me, BuckleDad and the dog before we realized it was a problem.
At this spot, BuckleBoy got two indian head pennies and BuckleDad got one as well, all concentrated around to one side of where the school sat. By this point, the cold had started to get to Kindafoundabuckle (we expected the 50 degree weather to last through the day, but by this point, the windchill was about 35 degrees!) and he spent the rest of the time in the car, playing with his new iphone. I dug a good luck token that was an advertisement for "Old Prentice Whisky."
Here's a photo of our finds before cleaning.
And here's our finds all cleaned up.
The front and back sides of my token.
Thanks for looking!
Diggergrl
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It was good to get a chance to hunt with almost all of the team in 48 hours. (We gotta get everyone together at some point. 
) It is Always a blessing to hunt beside my Dad. Glad everybody braved the rainy cold mess to be together and make good finds. As you know, at this time of year in our area any day when the ground isn't frozen is a hunting day. Most of the time it isn't that comfortable out.
