The Seeker
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War of 1812 Site - 41st & 6th Regiment buttons, Old shovel, Shell fragment
It has been nearly two years since I have detected this site which we have had great success at finding a number of early military buttons , musket balls , iron pieces ,cannon balls and what have you from the War of 1812....Today I decided to go back and give it another shot ...Well with all the luck they are doing construction again in an area not far from the places I hunted in the past....With getting permission form the construction workers off I went and again just like years past musket ball within minutes , this place is a gold mine when detecting for these kinds of items With the ground dozed and about 1 to 2 feet of earth removed this is all you could ask for and again another great hit this time a 41 regiment of foot British military button and then another and another ...3 buttons all in the same 5 feet of each other....This is bringing back memories.
So as I keep going now we have more musket balls and then a large hit down about a foot so with the dirt removed already and about 12 inches down i pull out a large iron piece with a round side , This has to be a fragment from a very large cannon shot maybe a 60 pounder or more...I believe some of the early British ships were able to used such huge artillery. Now I just have to keep going. Taking the day off was not my intentions today but since I have such busy days for the last month I decided to get away from it all....and it has paid off . With a little luck and good timing this is the right time to be here....So as I carried on I found another button this one a 6th regiment and it looks to be silver plated I have found similar buttons in the past not far from this area.
So now with it almost 4:30 and about time to get going I decided to run in all metal mode , maybe get lucky and find a nice cannon ball but instead I found something better , an actual shovel used for trenching an old spade shovel...Could this be a shovel which was used for digging trenches just under 200 years ago....I 'm sure this could be one, so now as I pulled in my drive way I decided to clean off the mud out side since it rained last night for the first time in a month and just hose
off the finds to keep mud out of my kitchen sink....Yea I did say that right, cleaning finds in the kitchen sink....but not today ! So after all that tough digging 13 musket balls (two that look like someone was having them for dinner) 1 with the nub still attached, 7 buttons (3- 41st regiment,2- 6th regiment and 2 plain pewter) 1 piece of grape shot, copper rivits, 1 shovel and an iron piece of military artillery....I think blowing the day off of work was well worth it.....need that piece of mind!!!! Take care and HH !!!!!
It has been nearly two years since I have detected this site which we have had great success at finding a number of early military buttons , musket balls , iron pieces ,cannon balls and what have you from the War of 1812....Today I decided to go back and give it another shot ...Well with all the luck they are doing construction again in an area not far from the places I hunted in the past....With getting permission form the construction workers off I went and again just like years past musket ball within minutes , this place is a gold mine when detecting for these kinds of items With the ground dozed and about 1 to 2 feet of earth removed this is all you could ask for and again another great hit this time a 41 regiment of foot British military button and then another and another ...3 buttons all in the same 5 feet of each other....This is bringing back memories.
So as I keep going now we have more musket balls and then a large hit down about a foot so with the dirt removed already and about 12 inches down i pull out a large iron piece with a round side , This has to be a fragment from a very large cannon shot maybe a 60 pounder or more...I believe some of the early British ships were able to used such huge artillery. Now I just have to keep going. Taking the day off was not my intentions today but since I have such busy days for the last month I decided to get away from it all....and it has paid off . With a little luck and good timing this is the right time to be here....So as I carried on I found another button this one a 6th regiment and it looks to be silver plated I have found similar buttons in the past not far from this area.
So now with it almost 4:30 and about time to get going I decided to run in all metal mode , maybe get lucky and find a nice cannon ball but instead I found something better , an actual shovel used for trenching an old spade shovel...Could this be a shovel which was used for digging trenches just under 200 years ago....I 'm sure this could be one, so now as I pulled in my drive way I decided to clean off the mud out side since it rained last night for the first time in a month and just hose
off the finds to keep mud out of my kitchen sink....Yea I did say that right, cleaning finds in the kitchen sink....but not today ! So after all that tough digging 13 musket balls (two that look like someone was having them for dinner) 1 with the nub still attached, 7 buttons (3- 41st regiment,2- 6th regiment and 2 plain pewter) 1 piece of grape shot, copper rivits, 1 shovel and an iron piece of military artillery....I think blowing the day off of work was well worth it.....need that piece of mind!!!! Take care and HH !!!!!
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