Oh you wont believe this!!!!! With PICS

cwdigger · Jan 26, 2009

Ok went out to the new cw spot that we have been hunting now for about a month yall know where we found all the canister shot and frags. Yea well the owner of the property wanted to know if he could tag along I said sure and brought an extra detector, bobby was with me today as well. So we walk into the woods, keep in mind this man has NEVER used a detector b4 NEVER, 30 minutes or so bobby finds the usual 3 canister shot and I finda frag with the fuse side same old boring crap. So i asked bobby where old whats his face went he said he didnt know, so I stopped and listened for his detector, heard it and started his way, Upon getting to the top of the hill there he his holding a nice frag with the fuse side with this big grin on his face. I told him nice find and way to go then he said oh but I found more. So he pulls this long what looked like a spike out of his pocket, so we beat on it and knocked the crud off of it and it is one of those thingys that they aadjusted the tilt and hieght of cannons with ::)

Well here come the best part he says and I quote " I THINK I FOUND A BUCKLE" So i looked at it and bobby looked at it and agreed with him to make him feel like he found a buckle, it was getting dark so we packed up and left. On the way home I got a call from him. Now this man knows hardly nothing about nice relics or how to clean them. So he says I took that buckle and ran it under the sink, and scrubed it witha wire brush :stop:

I said just leave it for me and bobby to look tomorrow. The he said oh its a buckle you can see the clasp and all on the back, and what does "CS" mean. I have been detecting a while now, and just want to find one buckle thats all, and now this man goes for the 1st time in his life and digs a possible PEWTER CS Square belt buckle. I have not seen the finished product but I will tomorrow, and yes I will get pics up, you can believe that. And no I wont tell anyone where it is lol

Just thought I would share that with you wheter it be one or not we will all know tomorrow.

Montana Jim · Jan 26, 2009

Compare to this civil war era brass belt plate... a camp site artifact:

Click on the third one down for more pics:

http://www.campsiteartifacts.com/accoutrementplates.html

FLauthor · Jan 27, 2009

Looks like the remains of an early license plat from the 1900's, it' about the right size.

dragon6banger · Jan 27, 2009

it's not a license plate holder. it;s alot smaller than it looks in the photo.. its about 3 1/2in long by about 2 1/2in wide about the size of a flat belt plate.. i dont think its a belt plate myself but if it makes him feel good then let it be just get one more in our great hobby.. after i heard that he thought it had a "CS" on it i called him and told him to stop scrubbing it with that wire brush that if it was a plate myself or matt would take care of cleaning it for him or at least show him how to... HH all

58buick · Jan 28, 2009

youre like a drug dealer.....give him a little taste and hes hooked lookn for more, as soon as you said he taggd along......lol, Oh and before I knew anything, i probably would have used a wire brush too. Just like some of us, he'll learn.