BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Went out on Friday and Yesterday with Rodeo Recon for little diggin. The first site we got permission for had been bulldozed in the past for an irrigation system, and there weren't many keepers left. Rodeo found a piece of stoneware or two in a fence row, and he started pounding the fence row. He managed to get Shield Nickel #7 for my team and I since last March.
I got a little skunked at that site, but I walked up the hill to what I thought was a schoolhouse site hoping for an IH or two. Ended up with a handfull of aluminum tokens...a few from a business on Frankfort Avenue in Louisville, and a soap token. Unfortunately, they had "the rot" pretty badly.
We then went on to the next spot, an old housesite in a cornfield. Got permission from the owner and got swinging. When we got out there, we both had a hunch that the site would be on a rise towards the back corner of the field, and right up above the creek. We got iron blips when we started up the rise, so we knew we had our spot. Pretty soon the finds started coming--and Man, were they early!
First off, musketballs, spoon pieces, suspender clips, and a toe tap came up. Then Rodeo flagged me down to come over and see somthing. He had a Beautiful Tombac button in the hole:
Now, buttons like this are seldom found in the sites that we hunt (the sites are a few decades too new)--and in fact, during this last year, nobody on my team has found a large, decorated tombac. So this is a first for the area we're in.
We kept hunting the place hard. It was a pretty spot when the wind wasn't whipping us. (It was a cold day Friday here--in the 30s in the morning and windy...but Saturday was 65 and sunny. Go figure.
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I managed to get a couple old tools, then locked on a nice brass signal. To my Total surprise, it was half of a Colonial Era buckle! I might expect that type of find in Virginia--but Never here.
Here it is, after cleaning:
I also managed a ball button, which ended up being decorated. I also think I got a clock hand. (When I found it I started jumping up and down and yelling to Rodeo "You'll never guess what I found--a Colonial Sperm!"
(He thought I said "spur" :P)
So there were some surprises when we got the finds home. One of the weird things is the bent spoon which rodeo recovered. I feel like it was intentionally bent--this is no work by the plow. It is too symmetrical. Rodeo also found that he had a piece of a ramrod channel too.
We kept angling for coins, knowing that any coin find would be Very early. But our visions of half reales and capped busts were not to be--this time. 
Here are some of the buttons we found. If anyone can tell me anything about the age of this style of button with the "nipple" in the middle of it, I'd be very appreciative.
And here are all the finds, after cleaning:
And the tools I dug, which I think are pretty cool. Hammer head and a lathing hatchet.
And we saw this tree that was grown together. Weirdest thing I've ever seen as far as trees go. Maybe it's a Treasure Sign.
Photos from yesterday's hunt appear in the first reply below:
Went out on Friday and Yesterday with Rodeo Recon for little diggin. The first site we got permission for had been bulldozed in the past for an irrigation system, and there weren't many keepers left. Rodeo found a piece of stoneware or two in a fence row, and he started pounding the fence row. He managed to get Shield Nickel #7 for my team and I since last March.
I got a little skunked at that site, but I walked up the hill to what I thought was a schoolhouse site hoping for an IH or two. Ended up with a handfull of aluminum tokens...a few from a business on Frankfort Avenue in Louisville, and a soap token. Unfortunately, they had "the rot" pretty badly.
We then went on to the next spot, an old housesite in a cornfield. Got permission from the owner and got swinging. When we got out there, we both had a hunch that the site would be on a rise towards the back corner of the field, and right up above the creek. We got iron blips when we started up the rise, so we knew we had our spot. Pretty soon the finds started coming--and Man, were they early!
First off, musketballs, spoon pieces, suspender clips, and a toe tap came up. Then Rodeo flagged me down to come over and see somthing. He had a Beautiful Tombac button in the hole:
Now, buttons like this are seldom found in the sites that we hunt (the sites are a few decades too new)--and in fact, during this last year, nobody on my team has found a large, decorated tombac. So this is a first for the area we're in.
We kept hunting the place hard. It was a pretty spot when the wind wasn't whipping us. (It was a cold day Friday here--in the 30s in the morning and windy...but Saturday was 65 and sunny. Go figure.
)I managed to get a couple old tools, then locked on a nice brass signal. To my Total surprise, it was half of a Colonial Era buckle! I might expect that type of find in Virginia--but Never here.
Here it is, after cleaning:I also managed a ball button, which ended up being decorated. I also think I got a clock hand. (When I found it I started jumping up and down and yelling to Rodeo "You'll never guess what I found--a Colonial Sperm!"
(He thought I said "spur" :P)So there were some surprises when we got the finds home. One of the weird things is the bent spoon which rodeo recovered. I feel like it was intentionally bent--this is no work by the plow. It is too symmetrical. Rodeo also found that he had a piece of a ramrod channel too.
We kept angling for coins, knowing that any coin find would be Very early. But our visions of half reales and capped busts were not to be--this time. Here are some of the buttons we found. If anyone can tell me anything about the age of this style of button with the "nipple" in the middle of it, I'd be very appreciative.
And here are all the finds, after cleaning:
And the tools I dug, which I think are pretty cool. Hammer head and a lathing hatchet.
And we saw this tree that was grown together. Weirdest thing I've ever seen as far as trees go. Maybe it's a Treasure Sign.
Photos from yesterday's hunt appear in the first reply below:
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I probably missed it but what was the date on your shield nickel? Congratulations on your finds and thanks for another super post. 
