steelheadwill
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New Site, lead buttons & balls, Stamped Ingot, Chadwick Lead 1862
Came across a promising new site today.
A 20 minute search yielded 2 lead buttons, a coinlike lead slug, a marked lead weight (6.500 troy oz/ 70 DWT) interesting that this is still correct to the 1000 of an ounce.
anyone know of a significance to this particular amount?
several musketballs & a smaller lead item. after some excitement finding these,
I got a strong deep signal, and dug this large stamped ingot Chadwick lead company,
established in 1862 boston ma, also owned a lead mill in salem ma which I am very familiar with, I grew up there. Have considered searching there before, but distance has delayed this.
The ingot was 20 inches down, and estimate it wieghs 30 lb.
this called an end to the search as I had a long treck with this object back to the truck.
these are the first lead buttons I've found, if anyone can date the design on the first one, It would be greatly appreciated, i believe it is a lot earlier than the ingot. some items found in dry ground (patina), and some from salt mud,(clean).
Am looking forward to further investigation Here! Thanks for looking & HH, Herbie
Came across a promising new site today.
A 20 minute search yielded 2 lead buttons, a coinlike lead slug, a marked lead weight (6.500 troy oz/ 70 DWT) interesting that this is still correct to the 1000 of an ounce.
anyone know of a significance to this particular amount?
several musketballs & a smaller lead item. after some excitement finding these,
I got a strong deep signal, and dug this large stamped ingot Chadwick lead company,
established in 1862 boston ma, also owned a lead mill in salem ma which I am very familiar with, I grew up there. Have considered searching there before, but distance has delayed this.
The ingot was 20 inches down, and estimate it wieghs 30 lb.
this called an end to the search as I had a long treck with this object back to the truck.
these are the first lead buttons I've found, if anyone can date the design on the first one, It would be greatly appreciated, i believe it is a lot earlier than the ingot. some items found in dry ground (patina), and some from salt mud,(clean).
Am looking forward to further investigation Here! Thanks for looking & HH, Herbie
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but one thing for sure you are popping out some oldies there. 
Now if I could just get some of these TN boys to give me some tips I'd be a happy camper. I started a post asking for info on the laws, etc & PMed a couple guys but only got 1 response. They seem to be a little tight lipped about their secrets down here.. Hell it ain't like I was asking about moonshine... 
