BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Since the weather was going to be decent yesterday (above freezing and not snowing or sleeting), I decided to meet up with Coinmaster2db for a bit in the afternoon to hunt for the Good Stuff.
He had an old spot that he wanted to try, in an area where there was a really old spring house in a cow pasture. Well, we met up and got digging. Here's a photo of the spring house.
We hunted for a bit, and dug a few keepers...then I got a really Fine signal and popped out a silver thimble (2nd one in Kentucky for me). That built a fire in us to see what else was there. Then I dug a tombac button, which was a great sign of the age of the place.
Pretty soon I got one of those Silver uMax Large Copper signals.
I called coinmaster over to enjoy the moment with me:
The coin looked a little small to me, so I was already thinking it might be a Braided Hair type--but when I got it home and cleaned it, there was another reason it was small...
Anyhow, we kept digging right until dark (about 3 hours), and it was a really fine haul for "The House Whisperer" and I. Lots of variety in the finds, and a few interesting surprises. I got a flat piece of bent-up metal that looked like a name plate, and when I carefully restored it it was indeed a name plate from a business in Indiana. When I dug the clover-shaped piece below, my first instinct was to run around in circles, dancing and yelling "Corps Badge!" (but it was not to be). The relic is cool though, but it is probably a decoration. Not too many things come out of the ground that are clover-shaped.
I also got a piece of the typical brass clock frame--but this one had the winding key in the back of it. So that's my first one of those, out of several dozen dug. The suspender clips were all of unusual manufacture. Also bagged a few musketballs and another large tombac button. Here is a photo of the finds before cleaning and restoration. The crumpled up name plate is in the middle, below the harmonica reed plate. I was happy that the restoration on that item turned out so well.
And after:
The clock frame with the key still attached:
The silver thimble. Quite a beauty.
And the Large Cent was an 1846. I am telling myself that the edges have crumbled away because of a defective planchet rather than 150 years of cow urine... She's not pretty, but she puts me 1 copper away from my 2009 goal of 20.
If the weather holds later on in the week, I will try to get out again. Until then, Happy Hunting and Best Wishes.
-Buckles
Since the weather was going to be decent yesterday (above freezing and not snowing or sleeting), I decided to meet up with Coinmaster2db for a bit in the afternoon to hunt for the Good Stuff.
He had an old spot that he wanted to try, in an area where there was a really old spring house in a cow pasture. Well, we met up and got digging. Here's a photo of the spring house.
We hunted for a bit, and dug a few keepers...then I got a really Fine signal and popped out a silver thimble (2nd one in Kentucky for me). That built a fire in us to see what else was there. Then I dug a tombac button, which was a great sign of the age of the place.
Pretty soon I got one of those Silver uMax Large Copper signals.
I called coinmaster over to enjoy the moment with me:The coin looked a little small to me, so I was already thinking it might be a Braided Hair type--but when I got it home and cleaned it, there was another reason it was small...
Anyhow, we kept digging right until dark (about 3 hours), and it was a really fine haul for "The House Whisperer" and I. Lots of variety in the finds, and a few interesting surprises. I got a flat piece of bent-up metal that looked like a name plate, and when I carefully restored it it was indeed a name plate from a business in Indiana. When I dug the clover-shaped piece below, my first instinct was to run around in circles, dancing and yelling "Corps Badge!" (but it was not to be). The relic is cool though, but it is probably a decoration. Not too many things come out of the ground that are clover-shaped.
I also got a piece of the typical brass clock frame--but this one had the winding key in the back of it. So that's my first one of those, out of several dozen dug.
The suspender clips were all of unusual manufacture. Also bagged a few musketballs and another large tombac button. Here is a photo of the finds before cleaning and restoration. The crumpled up name plate is in the middle, below the harmonica reed plate. I was happy that the restoration on that item turned out so well. And after:
The clock frame with the key still attached:
The silver thimble. Quite a beauty.
And the Large Cent was an 1846. I am telling myself that the edges have crumbled away because of a defective planchet rather than 150 years of cow urine... She's not pretty, but she puts me 1 copper away from my 2009 goal of 20.
If the weather holds later on in the week, I will try to get out again. Until then, Happy Hunting and Best Wishes.
-Buckles
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I hope there's still time for #20. The finds from this hunt were a bit unusual due to how broad a time span they were from. Most sites are either CW era to turn-of-the-century, 1840s to 1860s, or pre-1830s. Seems like very few of them span more than one of those time frames. But when they do, there is certainly a LOT to dig. 
because ..a, it is something i am totally interested in and b..you put it together well...all the best from n/z...and crack a bottle on the 25th ..des
I hope I can get us a rehunt of that property. I've got another site from that era that I should be able to get us on. Glad you found #19. I only found 1 Large copper this year, but you get out there more than I do. The 1/2 cent I dug in Southern IN is the great equalizer. 
