Some from this week

[dcinffxva]

Got out for a couple of days this week, and met up with a couple of folks I met through here to go out and see what lay in the dirt. I'll leave their names out, and they can identify themselves if they wish, but one of the guys found a couple of nice flat buttons, and a very cool copper spoon, along with some other goodies. The other found a couple of fired pistol balls, a harmonica reed and some other assorted goodies. I found one fired pistol ball, and a pretty cool blacksmith's hammer head. We met up with a very friendly local drunk who supplied us with bananas and watermelon (??go figure??) and took us to his place on the mountain that apparently Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the rest of the entire Confederate Army swarmed through during the Shenandoah Vally Campaign. Either the entire Confederate Army drank a lot of Milwaukees Best, or this guy has been using his property for his own personal dumpster for several decades. Anyway, despite the brutally hot temps, and very high humidity, it was a good day, and we found some areas that showed some promise to return to when it wasn't 95 degrees out with near 100% humidity. There were so many iron targets in the ground, that we skipped most of them, but here are a couple of things from that day, and one of my other trips down to Stafford.

 

[wyattrr]

Nice Relics...Congrats and HH

 

[mikewaz]

Nice Finds!
It sounds like that place has some potential. A lot of people get discouraged and quit when they
find a spot with a lot of trash like this. I just switch to a smaller coil.

Good luck when you hit it again!
Mike

 

[dcinffxva]

Nice Finds!
It sounds like that place has some potential. A lot of people get discouraged and quit when they
find a spot with a lot of trash like this. I just switch to a smaller coil.

Good luck when you hit it again!
Mike

We didn't hunt the area filled with beer cans (yet). The areas that we hunted had almost no trash at all. We ran into the drunk while we were on a recon mission for future hunts. We were in Page County Va., and have a lot of ground that we have the green light to cover, so there is some excellent potential for some great hunting. The one site was an iron forge that existed pre-Civil War that had so many iron targets that we didn't even bother with most, and went primarily into coins/buttons mode. We moved away from the site of the forge, and started trying to locate the homes and other buildings of the people who worked it. Once we started hitting non-iron targets, and pottery remains we started digging more. The heat really slowed us up more than anything, and this was my first venture out with the two folks I met through here. The two areas we did MD have both produced Civil War and earlier relics, and I've got access to several hundred more acres to cover.

I've hunted both of the areas we hit several times before, and they have both produced some quality relics every time. Here are a couple of bullets that have come out of the areas.