Too hot to dig.....BUT I DID ANYWAY!

[Steve in PA]

I got out in the sweltering heat Saturday for about 3 hours. Not many options this time of year except for cow pastures. I would have hunted a little longer but the heat, the cows, and the flies that come with the cows proved too much for me. This is a spot that that I first hit almost 20 years ago. It’s given up two Rattlesnake with Stars buttons, two Harrison log cabin campaign buttons, three one piece eagle artillery buttons and a Vermont copper, but it is a small spot and I have worked it pretty hard over the years. This was my first time there with my upgraded F75 though. I was digging those iffy signals that sometimes get better when you open up a hole. I ended up with 3 buttons and a clipped 1840 large cent. Not much but it was good just to get out and dig something.

Here's what came home with me. Every hole you dig here has some broken ceramics in it. I pocketed a few examples.


Copper in the dirt!! What's it gonna be?


Turned out to be an 1840 Large Cent with a piece clipped off. I was hoping for a nice state copper or early LC.


Eventually the cows figured I must be onto something and they surrounded me along with the thousands of flies that were with them.

 

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[Steve in PA]

good job steve, I attempted it yesterday, man it was grossly hot out, I think I literally lost 76 gallons of sweat!

cool clipped LC, I guess that 1800s lawnmower got ahold of that huh lol

It's a pretty clean cut. I think someone took a chisel to it.

 

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[Captain Caveman]

I got out in the sweltering heat Saturday for about 3 hours.

Hot in PA... Pfffft!

 

[Pacivilwarluke]

Realy nice finds! That largie is cool clipped like that!

 

[Steve in PA]

Hot in PA... Pfffft!

Yeah I know it's hotter in Mississippi, but 90 degrees and high humidity is pretty dam hot for some of us Yankees! I hunted in hotter when I lived in Texas, but I was younger and able to handle it.

 

[cjon455]

It's a pretty clean cut. I think someone took a chisel to it.

Makes it more unique and cool in my opinion

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Nice finds! Congrats on the dated LC with character! Nice cheering section you acquired!
Funny how the cows wanted to join in the hunt, dogs do the same thing, they come over sniff around and then help dig.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Funny how the cows wanted to join in the hunt, dogs do the same thing, they come over sniff around and then help dig.

Too Funny! I've had dogs come up and try to help a few times. It cracks me up!

 

[Steve in PA]

Too Funny! I've had dogs come up and try to help a few times. It cracks me up!

I had this girl's Pit Bull take over my hole once. I wasn't gonna fight him over it. I finally found the target five feet behind him.

 

[Captain Caveman]

 

[metalev4]

I like the large cent Steve. Glad you got out. I will miss you on Coles Hill, still some glass left up there.
-Evan

 

[Steve in PA]

I like the large cent Steve. Glad you got out. I will miss you on Coles Hill, still some glass left up there.
-Evan

Haha Evan, Coles Hill. If I was going, I'd would go straight to the colonial house site I got into last time I was there.

 

[Argentium]

Those cows were thinking if that coin and those relics are good enough for you.... they wan't some too !

 

[basque-man]

Cool largie!! I agree on the heat. A little warm out here as well but hey; when ya got too go, ya gotta go!!!!!

 

[46Wheat]

Should have invited a cow home for dinner .