What an awesome first find made with my new Nautilus detector!

Devonrex · Sep 24, 2012

Woo Hoo I'm back baby! And what an awesome first find!!! « on: September 23, 2012, 04:39:20 PM »

Got my Nautilus yesterday. Thank goodness! So as soon as the sun was up I was out the door to one of my Revolutionary War sites! I just got in and I am going to add to this post after I shower but I just had to show everyone the first signal I dug.

I didn't find alot but I did manage some good quality rev war and civil war artifacts! The ball is a Rev War 6 inch ball with a wood fuse weighing about 8 pounds. I had found 2 others back in 2003 at this site. The ball was roughly 10 inches deep in the dryest hard packed soil I've seen in a while. I literally had to chip away at the sides of the hole to uncover it. It took forever. 10 feet away from the ball I dug a solid silver oval button or cufflink. This thing is beautiful and no doubt from 1781. It came out just as shiny as you see it in the picture. I don't think there is anything on the front but I'm going to study it more carefully tonight. Found an old housesite from the late 1800's and found the toy horse. Its at least 10 inches long. Also eyeballed a medicine bottle with cork that still has white tablets in it! Back at the turn of the century many painkillers such as morphine(laudinum) and even cocaine were legal. Got 1 dropped 58 minnie, 1 small iron grapeshot, a broken shoe buckle, a silver plated fork, and a few other items. It was fun to get out and believe me I was going stircrazy! Devonrex