surprman
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Had some time to detect on Friday and decided to hit a park where I had previously hit some turn of the century Indian heads and my first two silver coins (a 1902 barber and a 1917 merc). The place is loaded with pultabs and bottle caps and I had figured on digging anything that seemed to be a better signal.
Here is my great collection of trash for the day:
At one hole, I got a good signal (like a dime) so I dug, but saw nothing in the hole. I swept over the pile on my cloth and there was something there - but I could not see anything - just dirt and rocks. it took a while, but I finally found what was giving me the signal, what I think is a musket ball:
Now, I am no expert, but to me it looks like it had been fired and was not deformed much (since I see grooves around the circumference - with some deformation on what I think would have been the trailing edge of the grooves). This park boarders a pretty old city in upstate New York - established before the Revolutionary war) but not industrialized until the mid 1800's.
On what looks like the "back' of the ball there seems to be a circular "seem" maybe from how it was cast? If that is the case, I would guess that the person shooting it would have purposely positioned this seam in the back when they loaded it?
A little while later I got a nice dime signal and a coin came out in one of the clumps (of clay like soil). I could just see the reeded edge and knew it was silver. I took a little time to savor the moment and to take off my gloves before opening up the clod. The dime looked a lot like the 1902 I had found a few hundred yards a way last year (sorry about the out of focus date - really - it is 1903 :-)
Overall, a pretty good day!
Later!
Surprman
Here is my great collection of trash for the day:
At one hole, I got a good signal (like a dime) so I dug, but saw nothing in the hole. I swept over the pile on my cloth and there was something there - but I could not see anything - just dirt and rocks. it took a while, but I finally found what was giving me the signal, what I think is a musket ball:
Now, I am no expert, but to me it looks like it had been fired and was not deformed much (since I see grooves around the circumference - with some deformation on what I think would have been the trailing edge of the grooves). This park boarders a pretty old city in upstate New York - established before the Revolutionary war) but not industrialized until the mid 1800's.
On what looks like the "back' of the ball there seems to be a circular "seem" maybe from how it was cast? If that is the case, I would guess that the person shooting it would have purposely positioned this seam in the back when they loaded it?
A little while later I got a nice dime signal and a coin came out in one of the clumps (of clay like soil). I could just see the reeded edge and knew it was silver. I took a little time to savor the moment and to take off my gloves before opening up the clod. The dime looked a lot like the 1902 I had found a few hundred yards a way last year (sorry about the out of focus date - really - it is 1903 :-)
Overall, a pretty good day!
Later!
Surprman
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Nice job!
