Ornate brass brooch and a wheat

treblehunter

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Was busy yesterday but still managed to hunt for about an hour. I went back to a yard that I had found a few wheats last year. There was a couple spots that I remembered there were some good signals with my AT Pro. I wanted to try my new CTX there and see what I came up with. Mon, when I found that Rosie, this yard was where I always parked when going into that woods where I found the Rosie. I had tried around this tree where I had remembered the high signal hiding in a tangle of roots. It rang 13-45 on the CTX at 8 inches. UGH, the roots were unbelievable. I worked on it for about twenty minutes, when I lost the signal! I had rechecked it while digging and was getting a stronger signal as I got deeper with my pinpointer, till losing the signal. I checked everywhere thinking I had flung it out of hole into pouch, shirt pocket, close-by? I finally had to leave. I got back there with a hand saw and re dug cutting out the roots. About 10 inches down I finally got a faint signal with my pinpointer and finally pulled out a couple pieces of very old thin copper wire. I think it was originally in a circle and that was why it was making the machines tell me it was a coin. It was still bent in a semi circle, I think I must have hooked it with my lesche and had straighten it out making it seem like it had disappeared! Ha sorry for the long story, just thought it was interesting. I went around digging in the roots of that tree and a couple others. I found a lid to a mason jar about twelve inches down, once I cleared it from the hole there were no more signals. Next root mess I found a 1945 wheat, then the last good signal I almost passed on because it was telling me it was larger, I thought it was a can, but decided since it was telling me it was 3 inches I'd check, when out pops this brooch at about five inches down. I forgot to take a pic of it while it was dirty, I couldn't resist zapping it. I knew it would clean up nice. Enjoy the pix.

HH & GL
Brad

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Nice find Treb. Those roots can really be tough sometimes. Nice save. GL&HH.
 
Pretty darned nice I'd say! You did better than Beez did ( from what I hear anyway ) and certainly better than I did this morning in a corn field ~ a splatted old musket ball, 40's wheat and the handle of a thin little plated spoon or fork.
 
Thanks guys, it was good exercise.
 
Nice find. I love it..
 
Very cool, and thanks for correctly spelling "brooch"!!
 

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