Don in SJ
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With the cold air finally hitting my area and possible snow cover this weekend, this might have been my last hunt for 09 and I was hoping to not get skunked. I went to the site I got a 1775 KGIII Halfpenny and 1802 Large Cent in the same hole back in October and it also produced a decorative 100% complete shoe buckle.
Well, today I got another shoe buckle, LOL, about 1/2 inch of one, but better than not getting any at all...... I was lucky enough to dig a very iffy reading, was almost sure it was going to be an iron hunk but it turned out to be a copper on complete edge! As I scanned the hole I dug with the SR-1 Probe, I was pleasantly surprised to see the copper sticking to the side wall of the hole about 6 inches down, no wonder it gave a funky reading and that I missed it on my two previous hunts! Afterall, it was only 3 feet away from where I dug the two coppers together in October!
I continued hunting and found 3 buttons, one a Tombac and the other two no backmarked ones, all indicating late 1700s for dating and site was probably occupied end of the 1790s thru very early 1800s.
I got another signal that could have been a shotgun casing, or even a button or half dime, but not a copper, that was for sure. The signal was in a small depression adjacent to the larger home depression in the ground. It was hard to find in the clay gumbo soil, but there it was, my third solid silver cufflink for the year! I was hoping for a design, but after cleaning it at home, no evidence of any, but sure is high grade silver.
I might get out again after Christmas, weather dependent, if not, 2009 has been a great year for me regardless.
Don
Well, today I got another shoe buckle, LOL, about 1/2 inch of one, but better than not getting any at all...... I was lucky enough to dig a very iffy reading, was almost sure it was going to be an iron hunk but it turned out to be a copper on complete edge! As I scanned the hole I dug with the SR-1 Probe, I was pleasantly surprised to see the copper sticking to the side wall of the hole about 6 inches down, no wonder it gave a funky reading and that I missed it on my two previous hunts! Afterall, it was only 3 feet away from where I dug the two coppers together in October!
I continued hunting and found 3 buttons, one a Tombac and the other two no backmarked ones, all indicating late 1700s for dating and site was probably occupied end of the 1790s thru very early 1800s.
I got another signal that could have been a shotgun casing, or even a button or half dime, but not a copper, that was for sure. The signal was in a small depression adjacent to the larger home depression in the ground. It was hard to find in the clay gumbo soil, but there it was, my third solid silver cufflink for the year! I was hoping for a design, but after cleaning it at home, no evidence of any, but sure is high grade silver.
I might get out again after Christmas, weather dependent, if not, 2009 has been a great year for me regardless.
Don
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A Colonial kind of day! I hope to dig something ancient tomorrow as well.
Hope to find one myself one day.
Being 1785 you should have a shot at the variety.
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It's got a lot more when it's blown up, maybe they are just coincidence? These 4 just look pretty "on purpose" to me. 
Good recovery at any rate, and I hope you manage another trip out this year!
