Snow covered relic hunt PART 2 fat indian crotal bell pileorelics

[xdanthemanx]

Snow covered relic hunt PART 2 fat indian crotal bell pile'o'relics

ok heres my haul for the last weekends of snow storm hunting xdanthemanx & Saginawians crazy frozen weekends
my oldest coin pictured first 1863 fat indian ........ plain 1906 from the week before, i think the thick one is cool as shell allthough it think the nickel my hunting partner dug up 5 feet from me is really awesum too
congrats ian that thing is sweet

 

[xdanthemanx]

Re: Snow covered relic hunt PART 2

more........

 

[Baggins]

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WOW!! What a great group of relics!
Baggins

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

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Nice stuff, great fattie!

 

[Michiganne]

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Wow, nice stuff Dan! Great haul of relics and coins. Love the crotal bell.

How deep was the snow this past weekend? We got 5 inches of heavy wet stuff Sunday and I doubted MDing was possible.

HH

 

[SaginawIan]

Re: Snow covered relic hunt PART 2 fat indian crotal bell pile'o'relics

Awesome buddy! My favs in this order: OLD metal change purse, 1863 fatboy, silver money clip, locket with the bird on it, and basically all the harmonica reeds in the world - (for those of you that don't know Dan, he loves digging harmonica reeds and locks - he digs one every time I turn around!)

We gotta tear it up again soon. My shoes are still wet! I think we can hook up the snowmobiles and sled out to that spot next time if we need to? Well, maybe not . . .


2 things - what did we figure that the round looking harmonica reed thing is? and is that money clip actually silver?

Oh yeah, how much does that green slab of copper weigh? That's a pretty unusual and cool find itself!

Thanks once again for your great research,

Ian

 

[xdanthemanx]

Re: Snow covered relic hunt PART 2 fat indian crotal bell pile'o'relics

3-1/2 Pounds of solid copper ore

the round thing , my dad is was a pitch pipe used to set key in a group setting like a quarted or quire


the snow was ...none on the ground when we got there......4inches or soi by the time we left soaked and frozen hours later but well worth the trip, here the funniest part, we pulled all that old stuff out of this site and it was a site i had in my back pocket from early spring and forgot about till last week, turned out to be onre of the hottest spots of the summer and heres the best part all the coins in ians poast and in my post came out of an area smaller than 10 sqaure feet and we have a bout an acre and a half we havent even touched we basically pulled that stuff out of one corner in front of the house foundation......we'll see what comes out of the rets of it


DTM

 

[mpostma]

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Dan,
Great Finds! You guys certainly earned everything you dug!

Now that I know that Southern Michigan has some crazy die hards too I am really looking forward to hunting with you guys sometime next spring or summer!

Wish you guys a nice thaw, and soon!

HH
Mark

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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Fantastic job on the relics! Looks like you are onto a great site....WTG

 

[liftloop]

Re: Snow covered relic hunt PART 2 fat indian crotal bell pile'o'relics

When you mean copper ore, Are you talking float copper pushed by the glaciers.if so that copper came the copper country they found float copper that was pushed from the U.P all the way too Illinios, that is a verry inpressive find.

 

[xdanthemanx]

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yeah it is a big solid chunk of copper and its really heavy looks almost like theres silver in it for some reason but it was hefty and i dug it at about 2 feet damn near blew my eardrums out when i came over it

dan

 

[Clad 2 meet u]

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Yeah sure! Keep those good spots for Ian and yourself!!! just kidding buddy! Great haul on the antiquities!!! Keep the coil to the soil and break out the ice picks!

 

[Ed-NH]

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Man, that was one busy place! There has to be some nice coins inbetween all the relics!! Congrats on some nice finds.

 

[Jimmy(PA)]

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Nice finds, looks similiar to the stuff ive been pulling from a cellar hole around here, I love finding the crotal bells too.

 

[xdanthemanx]

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Hey clad, like i said when we all hooked up 2 saturdays ago, you never what your going to get when you walk onto a new site, that is the kind of site i hoping for on our little outing, but hey its a flip of an old coin.........oh did you see the bell in the pictures?? look familiar?

I will bet you have sites just like within a few miles of your house, you just got to dig for without the shovel first..............

DTM

 

[SaginawIan]

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Clad - That's the same bell you got isn't it? The site we were was pretty much like the one you hunted with us, but there was no new trash and I think that was the difference. Dan and I have already made plans to hit this place over and over and over until every last bit of metal is gone. You are welcome to come back this way anytime you want to - we had a lot of fun when you stopped by - and by all means, when you get a spot up north dan and I will shoot up that way. We talked about bringing a trash can to this site and filling it with nails and iron - gonna be some coins under that iron to be sure.

Dan - you need to get that copper chunk looked at, that may be one for a collector considering that it may have ridden here on a glacier!! That's super cool - I guess that means it's the oldest find of the day - probably like
6 million years old?

Ian

 

[Montana Jim]

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I agree the round reed board is from a pitch pipe!

OUTSTANDING FINDS - WHAT A GREAT DAY!!!!!

 

[John Deere Digger]

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Nice indians, I really like digging those. Super relics also, WTG
JDD

 

[Baldingboy]

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Unbelievable bunch of relics! That would be a good month for me!!!!!

 

[Con]

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great finds, maybe you can send that ford plate back to them to bail them out