New site produces 2 Spanish silvers plus a touch of gold from an old site

[Bill D. (VA)]

My bud Dan and I were finally able to get in our first full day of hunting of the new season on Saturday, and made our initial stop at a small but new site that was adjacent to one of our most productive areas from the past couple of years. Even though the crops had been cut it was a difficult site to hunt, and it was hard to find a spot to get the coil to the soil. But we were able to quickly confirm early occupation with a variety of mostly 18th century finds. Just about the very first target I encountered surprisingly turned out to be a cut piece of silver which was a good omen. Less than an hour later Dan tied the score with a nice cut pistareen of his own, but I quickly countered with another to take back the lead in our friendly but intense competition for "colonial silver king". I also recovered a variety of other early artifacts that we typically find on these kind of sites, including another 4 thimbles which seem to heavily populate just about every colonial homesite we hunt. We stayed there until mid-afternoon, and then opted to finish out the day at another of our old sites where the crops had just been cut. We've pounded this place the last 2-3 years, but it always seems to provide a few keepers. I ended up with a few more buttons and buckle pieces, but was quite surprised when a small, monogrammed gold ring appeared in the field that was found in the midst of the heavy iron, black glass and brick frags. It was a very low and broken signal that I was tempted not to dig, but I just had to see what it was that would give that type of a target response. And a small gold ring with a broken band fit the bill exactly. I don't think it has a whole lot of age to it - maybe early 1900s at the very earliest - but it was still a nice way to end the day.

 

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[Bill D. (VA)]

Any chance your cut silvers from this site or the one close by are from the same coin?

That would be an extremely rare occurrence. In the last 15+ years I've dug over 80 pieces of cut silver, and only found a matching pair once (see pic below). Once a coin was cut into pieces they would quickly go off in their own direction never to be reunited again. The two matching pieces I found were part of a large coin spill, but that still doesn't explain how they came to be found together.

 

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[muddpuppy]

Spectacular! Keep Swinging!!

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[pepperj]

Great day of digging! Liking the silver and something that's on the want list, but they're as rare as hens teeth in my area.
The ring is a sweet keeper that looks like it might be from the mid 19C era. Good digs, hunting buddy,= a winning day out.

 

[park pirate]

Damn nice finds..

 

[mangum]

Great finds Bill! I love the Spanish silver & it's great to pull a gold ring relic hunting!