BuckleBoy
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IRON Brigade: Eagle Buttons, Big Copper, Early IH's...
Hello All,
Got out yesterday for some Serious diggin with Hill Billy and Rodeo Recon. We stopped and asked a farmer for permission. Thank goodness for the gift of gab--ths one was a tough permission to get. But, we got it.
Then we saw the site--covered in rather tall grass. 
So we started hacking our way through the green jungle like Indiana Jones on Crack.
The grass was covered in dew, which made it even heavier to swing through, but the view was wonderful from where we were. Here are some photos of HB and I hard at work:
HB made the first score--with a flat button. Then he got himself a nice early IH--1866:
With two early finds in HB's pocket, Rodeo and I summoned all our detecting concentration and tried to get on the leaderboard. Rodeo was next with two Fine Civil War eagle buttons:
I managed to score an early IH too--1864. then I had a good signal which I had a little trouble pinpointing. I kept repeating the mantra out loud: "Don't be iron. Don't be iron." When I flopped the plug out, I saw some LARGE COPPER! (Notice that the large cent was On Edge in the ground. 
)
It is a dateless Matron Head LC.
We pounded the site until it quit producing targets. HB scored another coin off the site--the odd coin out. It was a 20's wheat, probably lost when the old homestead was torn down. Swinging in grass that heavy is Certainly tiring! Here are a few more photos...
Photos of the finds appear in the first reply, below:
Hello All,
Got out yesterday for some Serious diggin with Hill Billy and Rodeo Recon. We stopped and asked a farmer for permission. Thank goodness for the gift of gab--ths one was a tough permission to get. But, we got it.
Then we saw the site--covered in rather tall grass. So we started hacking our way through the green jungle like Indiana Jones on Crack. The grass was covered in dew, which made it even heavier to swing through, but the view was wonderful from where we were. Here are some photos of HB and I hard at work:
HB made the first score--with a flat button. Then he got himself a nice early IH--1866:
With two early finds in HB's pocket, Rodeo and I summoned all our detecting concentration and tried to get on the leaderboard. Rodeo was next with two Fine Civil War eagle buttons:
I managed to score an early IH too--1864.
then I had a good signal which I had a little trouble pinpointing. I kept repeating the mantra out loud: "Don't be iron. Don't be iron." When I flopped the plug out, I saw some LARGE COPPER! (Notice that the large cent was On Edge in the ground. )It is a dateless Matron Head LC.
We pounded the site until it quit producing targets. HB scored another coin off the site--the odd coin out. It was a 20's wheat, probably lost when the old homestead was torn down. Swinging in grass that heavy is Certainly tiring! Here are a few more photos...
Photos of the finds appear in the first reply, below:
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