Tobacco Road: Mangum Took Me Hunting!

[Carolina Tom]

I received an invite from renowned relic hunter and TNet regular, Mangum.

Saturday was a cool day in NC, a very rare cool day in July. I slipped up the road about 2.5 hours, and found myself on Tobacco Road! Here is my host in the tobacco field.



I'll start off with a hardy 'thanks' for the invite. We went to a couple of spots, one in the wood, the other was farm fields.

Here is a pic of all of the stuff I brought home.

- Saddle strap guide
- Harmonica reed piece
- Shoe buckle frame fragment
- Wheaties 191x & 1928
- 3 flat buttons
- Square nail
- 3 pieces of lead, maybe a smashed round ball
- Modern bullet
- Guilford point and lots of flakes



I don't often get to hunt older sites, so it was nice to find 3 flat buttons.



As soon as I saw this, I knew it was a piece of shoe buckle frame. Mangum agreed.



Whilst detecting the fields, I picked up dark flakes of chert or flint... the remnants of stone tool manufacturing. I was just amazed at how many there were.



Mangum took me to a wash, where he has found points in the past... sure enough, A Guilford point was just laying there on the ground awaiting my arrival.



It was quite an adventure, with lots of local history all around us, beautiful scenery and cool weather in July. I can not thank my host enough for the invite.

Thanks for looking and best of luck on your hunts!

PS: Yeah, he spanked me, he found all of the good coins and a couple of cool relics too.

 

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[Diggin Dude]

Cool finds Tom! Nice post! Congrats and HH

 

[cjon455]

Nice hunting tom. Cool finding part of a shoe buckle., all that flint is pretty cool too

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[mangum]

Wow, I didn't know I was renowned lol. News to me. I had a great time Tom, glad I was able to help you break in that clean new truck. We'll have to do it again soon!

 

[Javadroid]

This is a great post on the camaraderie of the TNet members. Glad to see you guys had such a good day at a great site. Congrats on the finds!

 

[Gridwalker306]

Good job on the old finds, nice to pull up flat buttons with shank intact.

 

[Davers]

Good thing that 'Cool' front came through much of the SE & lowered humidity. Still 88 here but lower humidity meant I sweat half as much.

Magnum is a great Relic Hunter & name in the Relic Hunting World ( Kiss) lol
For real I respect him & enjoy his finds.

All those 'Flakes' I'd be picking those up all day. Cool relics also.

 

[Carolina Tom]

This is a great post on the camaraderie of the TNet members. Glad to see you guys had such a good day at a great site. Congrats on the finds!

I have hunted with no less than (25) Tnetters in my 3 years of hunting. Some of the best people that I have ever met.

It is nice to meet like minded people of integrity, that pursue a similar interest.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Looks like you had a good time Tom, and even brought home a couple of late colonial keepers. Kudos to Josh for extending the invite.

 

[romeo-1]

Looks like a great day out...nice finds!

 

[A2coins]

Great job on the finds. That is awesome that you reach out to so many other tnetters,you sound like you must be very nice and easy to get along with I think most all tnetters are... Good going my friend!!!!

 

[relic nut]

Great job Tom! It's hard to beat sweet relics on a cool day.
The point is pretty cool too.

HH, RN

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some nice finds Tom. Indian artifacts are always nice to pick up. You are blessed to have such a good friend and to have hunted with so many others from the forum. That says a lot about your character also.

 

[mangum]

Good thing that 'Cool' front came through much of the SE & lowered humidity. Still 88 here but lower humidity meant I sweat half as much.

Magnum is a great Relic Hunter & name in the Relic Hunting World ( Kiss) lol
For real I respect him & enjoy his finds.

All those 'Flakes' I'd be picking those up all day. Cool relics also.

Thanks for the kind words, appreciate that Davers

 

[BuckleBoy]

Well done!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Out & about, and having fun!
Thats the way to do it!
Nice finds!
I like the buckle.

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