My Civil War relic hunting adventure

[sekypaleo]

Hello all, I just finished up 8 days of relic hunting over many miles. I took advantage of my wife and baby visiting relatives, to take a week of vacation to do nothing but dig. Drove 8 hours over to the Gettysburg area and hunted last weekend with two digging buddies who live there and we hunted several CS and Union sites that were on the route of the retreat after Gettysburg. Highlight find for me there was a cherry CS Script I button. Then traveled down the Shenandoah valley and hunted a property that is a owned by a co-workers uncle. Then continued on down to east Tenn and hit several of my sites there. Had a great time, but I am worn out. HH'ing all!

Updated: cleaned up the bullets and found I have a swaged and two star bases

 

[Ahab8]

Damn that button is gorgeous! Don't see em like that very often. Sounds like a dream week man

 

[bobby5]

You had to be pretty stoked about that hunt, sweet.

 

[ynpto804]

Fantastic!! What's the back mark?? Stand up shank?? My only script I is tore up from the Floor up. Lol that's a nice one for sure

 

[blugotti1]

awesome finds! congrats on the confederate infantry button!!

 

[parsonwalker]

Wow, wow, WOW on the script I. Gorgeous!

 

[sekypaleo]

Stand up shank, can't make out b/m

 

[Jpro]

Awesome adventure..of course the button and relics are NICE!!! Great job on the hunt!!

 

[markp]

Congrats on a great hunting trip. I love that button

 

[beez0404]

Beautiful button! I hope you at least ate breakfast with the relatives before you headed out hunting LOL

 

[chase_j97]

Them are some really nice finds!

 

[vpnavy]

Great finds! Thanks for sharing...

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Gettysburg area relics


Big Congrats on digging Magnificent

CSA Button

 

[Spaceport]

Good week Bill, what was the button you dug that you were waiting on cleaning and said was delicate?

 

[HomeGuardDan]

Heck of a vacation man! WTG!

 

[BuckleBoy]

View attachment 981429Stand up shank, can't make out b/m

See my button cleaning post. Toothpick method would've revealed the backmark.

 

[Spaceport]

Cool man

 

[Davers]

See my button cleaning post. Toothpick method would've revealed the backmark.

Good Idea ...It looks like I can see some lettering on the back of the Awesome Button .
A nice haul of other CW relics as well , I wish I could find my first final .

 

[NolanTheExplorer]

Nice button!

 

[sekypaleo]

Thanks guys! Found upon cleaning the minies a swaged base and two star bases!