Isaac
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- Oct 11, 2013
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- Whites MXT All Pro, Garrett AT Pro
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Hi all.
I invited my long time friends, and cellar hole legends, Todd and Dave, to some sites. They picked me up from my house at 6am and we got to the parking area at 6:15. Todd forgot his shovel at home because I left mine at a previous site and I asked if I can borrow his "Lesche" and he thought I meant the little digger, not the big T handle, so he brought that for me, but then I found my shovel... It was a mess!
Anyway we hike to the first site I research and it was a a big cellar hole next to a small starter home. The big cellar had barely any iron around it and then I moved away to a small depression right nearby and started getting tons of signals, then I get a surface almost overloading 82-83 hit and scrape a half inch of dirt off and low and behold an early silver applied buckle in the middle of the starter home depression. My stress for finding them a good site to hunt was over! Todd calls me over to listen to this faint signal kinda near the big cellar hole. "Sounds like a deep copper" I said. Todd and Dave were both trying out their new MX SPORTS and comparing signals. It took 30 minutes to fondle with this signal! It was a beautiful 70-85 signal about 7". In the meantime, I pick up an escutcheon plate, a couple colonial buttons, and then an 83 signal. I hear Todd say "It's silver" and I was like "are you kidding me
" Since he's been having extraordinary luck with colonial silver lately. It turned out to be a 1763 pillar style half reale in nice shape, not worn at all! I then show Dave my signal, he swings over it and says that it sounds good and shakes his head 
it turned out to be a copper at 5", and letting it dry, it revealed itself to be a Woods Hibernia with a clear date of 1723!!! Beating my previous oldest by only a year. Dave "orbits" the former farm fields and get a really high signal next to a tree stump. Ends up being a beautiful complete Knee buckle. Now everyone was on board! I then get a few buttons, D buckle, pewter spoon handle, thimble, and a slick copper. Just as we were about to leave Todd moves a log and gets a high 86 signal at 2". He pulled out a nice Matron head cent, 1818. We headed to the second site just down the road and it was hammered with fresh dig holes. Got a button and thimble there. We hike up for about an hour to no avail, I thought it was a site but was just nothing.
We hike out of there to try the sites I got my button spill, farthing, and half cent for another go. Had to leave early but before I left, I witnessed Dave got a REAL KGIII Irish Hibernia (1782) and I got a counterfiet one (was a 37 on my MXT all pro- 1766). Dave got a draped bust 1798, and Todd got a patriotic eagle button after I left for the day. HH!!!
I invited my long time friends, and cellar hole legends, Todd and Dave, to some sites. They picked me up from my house at 6am and we got to the parking area at 6:15. Todd forgot his shovel at home because I left mine at a previous site and I asked if I can borrow his "Lesche" and he thought I meant the little digger, not the big T handle, so he brought that for me, but then I found my shovel... It was a mess!
Anyway we hike to the first site I research and it was a a big cellar hole next to a small starter home. The big cellar had barely any iron around it and then I moved away to a small depression right nearby and started getting tons of signals, then I get a surface almost overloading 82-83 hit and scrape a half inch of dirt off and low and behold an early silver applied buckle in the middle of the starter home depression. My stress for finding them a good site to hunt was over! Todd calls me over to listen to this faint signal kinda near the big cellar hole. "Sounds like a deep copper" I said. Todd and Dave were both trying out their new MX SPORTS and comparing signals. It took 30 minutes to fondle with this signal! It was a beautiful 70-85 signal about 7". In the meantime, I pick up an escutcheon plate, a couple colonial buttons, and then an 83 signal. I hear Todd say "It's silver" and I was like "are you kidding me
" Since he's been having extraordinary luck with colonial silver lately. It turned out to be a 1763 pillar style half reale in nice shape, not worn at all! I then show Dave my signal, he swings over it and says that it sounds good and shakes his head it turned out to be a copper at 5", and letting it dry, it revealed itself to be a Woods Hibernia with a clear date of 1723!!! Beating my previous oldest by only a year. Dave "orbits" the former farm fields and get a really high signal next to a tree stump. Ends up being a beautiful complete Knee buckle. Now everyone was on board! I then get a few buttons, D buckle, pewter spoon handle, thimble, and a slick copper. Just as we were about to leave Todd moves a log and gets a high 86 signal at 2". He pulled out a nice Matron head cent, 1818. We headed to the second site just down the road and it was hammered with fresh dig holes. Got a button and thimble there. We hike up for about an hour to no avail, I thought it was a site but was just nothing. We hike out of there to try the sites I got my button spill, farthing, and half cent for another go. Had to leave early but before I left, I witnessed Dave got a REAL KGIII Irish Hibernia (1782) and I got a counterfiet one (was a 37 on my MXT all pro- 1766). Dave got a draped bust 1798, and Todd got a patriotic eagle button after I left for the day. HH!!!
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. But again, fantastic finds
