Cal_Cobra
Bronze Member
- Oct 3, 2008
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- Minelab EQ800 & Makro Multi Kruzer, the rest are collecting dust...
Had some business to do out in the country over the weekend and hit a recommended spot that produced in the old days. It's been hard, hard hit, so hard hit it was left to wither away. I don't mind taking a crack at those kind of sites.
At any rate, I gave it a try for a few hours and was pleasantly impressed with what I was able to dig up on this site left to die. I think I may have dug a half to one of those cheap stamped brass 49er buckles, but this one is a plain Jane. Also got a civil war era eagle button but it's seen better days. Some kind of neat buckle all twisted up, but the prize was a surface find - I believe that tiny bottle is an opium bottle? And of course, leave it to me to find a merc that's likely 100 years newer then the site!!!
The canslaw was punishing!!
Not too many small arms shells, zero shotgun shells (amazingly!) but some BIG OLD LEAD (bottom) !!!
As large as a couple of those pieces are, there could be anything from a gold coin to a silver dollar still out there IMO :
Aside from aluminum, not many conductors left!
This poor eagle button:
Felt good to get out!!
I did a lot better at the sale I was picking stuff up from, but there's nothing like detecting old sites (tu)
HH,
Cal
At any rate, I gave it a try for a few hours and was pleasantly impressed with what I was able to dig up on this site left to die. I think I may have dug a half to one of those cheap stamped brass 49er buckles, but this one is a plain Jane. Also got a civil war era eagle button but it's seen better days. Some kind of neat buckle all twisted up, but the prize was a surface find - I believe that tiny bottle is an opium bottle? And of course, leave it to me to find a merc that's likely 100 years newer then the site!!!
The canslaw was punishing!!
Not too many small arms shells, zero shotgun shells (amazingly!) but some BIG OLD LEAD (bottom) !!!
As large as a couple of those pieces are, there could be anything from a gold coin to a silver dollar still out there IMO :
Aside from aluminum, not many conductors left!
This poor eagle button:
Felt good to get out!!
I did a lot better at the sale I was picking stuff up from, but there's nothing like detecting old sites (tu)
HH,
Cal
