Don in SJ
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- May 20, 2005
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Today's Relic Finds
I overhauled my XS yesterday and my headphones and wanted a good checkout so I went to a spot that I knew I cherry picked the goodies on earlier hunts, but bypassed a lot of the "other" type of readings. So, a good operational check of my Probe, and repairs on my headphones and detector was accomplished. Everything worked great.
I was still hoping for a King George or William III copper, since the site was a big producer in the past, but I settled for an unusual array of finds for me in one short hunt.
I guess the most unusual find in this group today is the shotgun casing. In over 27 years of detecting I believe this is only my 4th or 5th solid brass shotgun shell casing. So, if anybody else has found these, please chime in, I am not sure anymore of their age either, used to know, but dang, I should have written it down.
The finds are a mixture of 1700 era artifacts and mid to late 1800's. Two adjoining homesteads, one very old (1700's) and one that was abandoned around 1900. The big musketball looks like it was chewed on, and the smaller caliber one still has the casting marks on it....
Regardless of getting nothing spectacular, the weather was today, around 60, sunny skies and no wind. Cannot ask for any more in early November.
HH
Don in SJ
I overhauled my XS yesterday and my headphones and wanted a good checkout so I went to a spot that I knew I cherry picked the goodies on earlier hunts, but bypassed a lot of the "other" type of readings. So, a good operational check of my Probe, and repairs on my headphones and detector was accomplished. Everything worked great.
I was still hoping for a King George or William III copper, since the site was a big producer in the past, but I settled for an unusual array of finds for me in one short hunt.
I guess the most unusual find in this group today is the shotgun casing. In over 27 years of detecting I believe this is only my 4th or 5th solid brass shotgun shell casing. So, if anybody else has found these, please chime in, I am not sure anymore of their age either, used to know, but dang, I should have written it down.
The finds are a mixture of 1700 era artifacts and mid to late 1800's. Two adjoining homesteads, one very old (1700's) and one that was abandoned around 1900. The big musketball looks like it was chewed on, and the smaller caliber one still has the casting marks on it....
Regardless of getting nothing spectacular, the weather was today, around 60, sunny skies and no wind. Cannot ask for any more in early November.
HH
Don in SJ
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