Old House AND Civil War Site: Dman Dug a Ring!! Updated With Stirrup Part!!

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Earlier this week, tennessee digger (Donnie) graciously shared one of his sites with us. Unfortunately, we didn't have much over an hour to hunt it before sunset as we had hit a Kentucky CSA site earlier that day. He urged us to go back whenever we liked as he had left that site in his rear view mirror. I might add that his trunk was also filled with 9 U.S. plates and many bullets and silver coins recovered by him and his wife Julia when he left-LOL.
Since we couldn't talk him into returning to the site today, Dman and I arrived there about mid-morning. Donnie said there had been an old home there that he felt dated to circa 1900. CW relics had been recovered in the house area and in other areas of the very large field where Winter Wheat was growing.
Dman fired up his SE and started in the trashy house area while I took my F75 and began searching for any hot spots in the field. It took me over two hours but I finally got into a small concentration of fired bullets, dropped bullets, and several pieces of campfire lead. We talked to BB and Shane a couple of times as they were hunting in LA today too. Today's finds from our Tennessee hunt are in the first pic.
The best finds today were Dman's sterling silver man's ring and the "badge". The writing on the wings of the badge read "Goodyear Highway Patrol Eagle Club". We were baffled by this one as was BB. Any info. is appreciated.
I dug the U.S. bayonet scabbard tip and had a wide variety of bullets. The last pic is of my solo hunt at a CSA camp yesterday.
Check out Buckleboy's article entitled "Great Finds-Luck or Skill? " published in the March issue of W & E Treasures magazine. It's a good one!! HH from Dman and myself, Quindy.

Update-I forgot to put the cast brass part I dug in the pic we made at Dman's house. We knew it looked like something we should know and it was. Thanks to BB who identified it as the brass side and broken part of the top of a stirrup.
 

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:icon_scratch: is that a Goodyear badge from the nifty fifties Quindy I like old cars and stuff from back then 8) dawg
 

Nice CW relics!
 

Quindy,
Glad to see that you and D-Man made it up there and found a few things. Good going! No idea about those wings that D-Man found but they look pretty cool to me. Talk to you soon. Tennessee digger
 

nice find on the stirrup piece, the wings pin is from a 1950's bicycle club, another cool find.

Bill
 

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treasurehound said:
Nice finds Quindy. I bet there is a "10th" plate there, lol. Glad to see y'all getting out.
Randy, those plates are so easy to locate that our chances there are slim since it's been hunted hard before. But, we're still looking. Has the East Tennessee contingent been out lately? HH, Q.
CMDiamonddawg said:
:icon_scratch: is that a Goodyear badge from the nifty fifties Quindy I like old cars and stuff from back then 8) dawg
I believe it's from a kid's bike and is from the fifties Dawg. Thanks for looking and good luck hunting, Quindy.
tennessee digger said:
Quindy,
Glad to see that you and D-Man made it up there and found a few things. Good going! No idea about those wings that D-Man found but they look pretty cool to me. Talk to you soon. Tennessee digger
It was fun Donnie. Dman was excited about the wings and should have been. It will look cool in his nostalgic displays. Call me. HH, Q.
nova treasure said:
nice find on the stirrup piece, the wings pin is from a 1950's bicycle club, another cool find.

Bill
Thanks Bill and he appreciates the pic. He thought he had found Amelia Earhart at first-LOL. HH, Q.
 

Quindy every time I come on here you all have found something good. Keep it up!
Seabiscuit
 

Nice saves Quindy and very gracious of Donnie to put you guys on the place. I also agree with Kugar regarding the permission aspect of this hobby. Right now I know of 3 spots where I could dig some great colonial relics and coins, but cannot get the permission.
 

VOL1266-X said:
treasurehound said:
Nice finds Quindy. I bet there is a "10th" plate there, lol. Glad to see y'all getting out.
Randy, those plates are so easy to locate that our chances there are slim since it's been hunted hard before. But, we're still looking. Has the East Tennessee contingent been out lately? HH, Q.

I have been working weekends lately so we have not been out much. I am off this weekend as I have a Boy Scout Banquet to go to Saturday night in Knoxville so I am hunting that day. Mike can't make it but the others might join me. I am going to try to make Mike's way shortly now that I am a lot closer to him.
 

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