Stuff I dug this week

vayank54 · Nov 1, 2009

With all the rain I didn't have much work this week so got some digging time in. I went out 4 times to 3 different spots for a total of about 12 hours. The following are my better finds
1st row union eagle button, .58 3 ring mini's
2nd 1700's tombac button, .58 3 ring mini's
3rd part of a colonial shoe buckle, .69 roundball & .52 Sharps carbines
4th 1/2 of a kepi (hat) buckle, .36 colt, .44 Johnson & Dows & .58 confederate Gardner
5th button back, brass river, brass grommet, 2 burnt nails from a fire pit. The nails are iron. It is not uncommon to find iron relcis that have been hot enough where it tempered them so they never rusted.

allen · Nov 1, 2009

id love to dig a bunch of cw relics like those !!! :thumbsup:

Imnengr · Nov 1, 2009

Awesome finds! That's a lot of lead! :icon_thumright:

vayank54 · Nov 1, 2009

Thanks all 3 places I hunted have been dug hard but the ground is bad, there is a lot of iron and the stuff is deep. Most of the stuff didn't read good. I've had my Blue gray so long I can lots of times tell by the response of the machine whether something is good or not even if the discriminator says iron. I'm wrong a lot of times too though and carry out about as much iron as I do good stuff but I think it's worth it.