DownNDirty
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For my first hunt of the new year I detected a plowed field in South Carolina during the fall of three inches of snow-a first for me indeed. We don't see the white stuff here very often and to swing a coil in the snow was a lot of fun.
Other than one flat button and a brass rivet I didn't find Jack
...but I didn't care.
Last weekend a buddy and I pulled a two-day marathon in frigid (at least by SC standards) temperatures. We were exploring a new six-field permission in an area settled in the mid-1700s and the fields are very large so it's a labor-intensive process. i have the plats for the original land grants but unfortunately none them have a house marked.
The first half of Saturday consisted of a lot of walking, swinging and breaking through a couple of inches of frozen ground to dig the usual can slaw, shotgun shells and a few miscellaneous brass pieces. We covered part of two fields in the morning with very limited results.
After a quick snack break we moved to a third field that borders a main creek. After about ten minutes of swinging the coil along the edge of the field I hit a good signal and dug a flat button without a back mark. Then 15 feet from there another very good signal resulted in a KGII half penny, so I knew we had hit pay dirt.
All the signs of an 18th century home site were there-square nails, the KGII and several other flat buttons. Another good find from the site was an ornate fob wax seal frame that is intact. It is almost identical to one I dug last year.
Sunday we started out at the new site and found a few more buttons but nothing else of note; my guess is that the inhabitants were not that well-off. So we moved onto two other fields and found a couple of buttons and odds and ends but that was it. Here are my finds for the weekend
Well 2018 is off to a good start; hopefully this is an indication of how the year will go. Thanks for looking and good luck out there.
Other than one flat button and a brass rivet I didn't find Jack
...but I didn't care.
Last weekend a buddy and I pulled a two-day marathon in frigid (at least by SC standards) temperatures. We were exploring a new six-field permission in an area settled in the mid-1700s and the fields are very large so it's a labor-intensive process. i have the plats for the original land grants but unfortunately none them have a house marked.
The first half of Saturday consisted of a lot of walking, swinging and breaking through a couple of inches of frozen ground to dig the usual can slaw, shotgun shells and a few miscellaneous brass pieces. We covered part of two fields in the morning with very limited results.
After a quick snack break we moved to a third field that borders a main creek. After about ten minutes of swinging the coil along the edge of the field I hit a good signal and dug a flat button without a back mark. Then 15 feet from there another very good signal resulted in a KGII half penny, so I knew we had hit pay dirt.
All the signs of an 18th century home site were there-square nails, the KGII and several other flat buttons. Another good find from the site was an ornate fob wax seal frame that is intact. It is almost identical to one I dug last year.
Sunday we started out at the new site and found a few more buttons but nothing else of note; my guess is that the inhabitants were not that well-off. So we moved onto two other fields and found a couple of buttons and odds and ends but that was it. Here are my finds for the weekend
Well 2018 is off to a good start; hopefully this is an indication of how the year will go. Thanks for looking and good luck out there.
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