Some stuff from Arkansas

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Here are a few pictures I already had on the computer, since turkey season I haven't been able to find my camera. I'm scared it has fallen out of my vest somewhere.
One of my favorite finds is all the coins I found on a battle field here close to the house. 7 quarters, 23 dimes and 2 half dimes that I am sure were lifted from some poor southern belle that couldn't keep the yankees from taking it. I have just put 2 pictures of 3-4 coins. In here also is a mashed .69 Mangeot or as they are called down here a Arkansas Hawg. Also I think there is the bayonet I found. Got a signal, raked the leaves back with my foot and rolled up the socket of the bayonet. You could of knocked me over with a feather. And a picture of the sword I found that had been drove into the ground. I think it was used as a picket pin, forgot and years later a skidder or dozer came through clearing off around the well and took the handle and brass parts about 20 feet from where I found the guard and the blade. I look for more stuff tomorrow. I have several of the .69 caliber hawg bullets and rare for here also are .54 MS bullets. I have bullets used by the 5th KS, colored troops and Jenkins Ferry Muskatoon bullets that were used at that battle. I hope these pictures show 'cause I ain't real computer literate...d2
 

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Awesome finds. My favorite is all of them!
 

Nice finds! I am fascinated by the sword being driven in the ground and remaining there all those years!

D.
 

Mighty nice work D2. Wish my neck of the woods still produced like that here in nw arkansas. So many scavengers up this way nowadays
 

Thanks for the comments. When I showed the sword to friends and relatives some thought it may mark a grave site but it didn't. Only reason I can think that it was drove into the ground like it was was so it could be used as picket pin...d2
 

Thats what I'm talking about, very nice. Those dimes are sweet and great shape. I was digging one day and got a signal brushed my foot across ground, up stood a bayonet, I had to sit and think for a minute. I really like your relics and would like to see more.
 

The bullets in this picture are in such bad shape because the camp they came from was right beside the road at the time of the battle and was a county road until the 50's or so. They have been run over by wagons, road graders, skidders and anything else that went down it...d2
 

Nice finds! Looks like you ran the coil over the poker area.
 

Here are a few pictures I already had on the computer, since turkey season I haven't been able to find my camera. I'm scared it has fallen out of my vest somewhere.
One of my favorite finds is all the coins I found on a battle field here close to the house. 7 quarters, 23 dimes and 2 half dimes that I am sure were lifted from some poor southern belle that couldn't keep the yankees from taking it. I have just put 2 pictures of 3-4 coins. In here also is a mashed .69 Mangeot or as they are called down here a Arkansas Hawg. Also I think there is the bayonet I found. Got a signal, raked the leaves back with my foot and rolled up the socket of the bayonet. You could of knocked me over with a feather. And a picture of the sword I found that had been drove into the ground. I think it was used as a picket pin, forgot and years later a skidder or dozer came through clearing off around the well and took the handle and brass parts about 20 feet from where I found the guard and the blade. I look for more stuff tomorrow. I have several of the .69 caliber hawg bullets and rare for here also are .54 MS bullets. I have bullets used by the 5th KS, colored troops and Jenkins Ferry Muskatoon bullets that were used at that battle. I hope these pictures show 'cause I ain't real computer literate...d2
 

Rumor has it there is a cannon at Jenkins still in the water
 

Here are a few pictures I already had on the computer, since turkey season I haven't been able to find my camera. I'm scared it has fallen out of my vest somewhere.
One of my favorite finds is all the coins I found on a battle field here close to the house. 7 quarters, 23 dimes and 2 half dimes that I am sure were lifted from some poor southern belle that couldn't keep the yankees from taking it. I have just put 2 pictures of 3-4 coins. In here also is a mashed .69 Mangeot or as they are called down here a Arkansas Hawg. Also I think there is the bayonet I found. Got a signal, raked the leaves back with my foot and rolled up the socket of the bayonet. You could of knocked me over with a feather. And a picture of the sword I found that had been drove into the ground. I think it was used as a picket pin, forgot and years later a skidder or dozer came through clearing off around the well and took the handle and brass parts about 20 feet from where I found the guard and the blade. I look for more stuff tomorrow. I have several of the .69 caliber hawg bullets and rare for here also are .54 MS bullets. I have bullets used by the 5th KS, colored troops and Jenkins Ferry Muskatoon bullets that were used at that battle. I hope these pictures show 'cause I ain't real computer literate...d2
I missed these in the past so WTG , you got some fine relics there.
 

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