BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Rodeo Recon and I teamed up today and he took me out to a few new spots he'd researched. We had both freed up our day to dig from morning till dark. Well...by the time we found the first site it was 2 in the afternoon.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
I managed to get a Beautiful gilded civilian button and a late-date IH cent. Then we did a bit of swinging in the second site--finding a few interesting old relics which we left with the property owner. (We put this one on the "back-up" list, due to the VAST numbers of canning jar lids there. :P)
Then we decided that there was still time for site #3. We were determined to bring home some goodies even if we had to break out the headlamps.
So...we got permission and got swinging!
My first signal was a flat button. Then the pewter spoon handles started showing up.
Rodeo got a candlestick finger loop, and a great Toy Hatchet Head. 
I then dug the bootstrap piece to a small mid-1800s spur. Hunting around the same area, I found another piece. I then spent most of an hour looking for more of it, and managed to find the neck (minus the rowel).
The fourth piece I found in Rodeo's detecting bag. :P
I was quite pleased with the spur, but decided to postpone looking for the rest of it in the hopes that some other interesting finds might be dug. Circling up around the front of the site, I got a faint signal and dug a tiny 3-piece button, which I suspected was either a State Seal or General Staff Officer cuff button. After cleaning, it was indeed a GS cuff.
Although we were both beat from over 9 hours of hunting, we started to race against the setting sun. Rodeo dug some suspender clips, part of a brass stirrup, and a beautiful arrowhead. (Anyone know what type of material it's made of?) I got a solid hit right in the middle of a plow-destroyed pile of aluminum can slaw. Rather than thumbing the knob on the detector, I simply dug the target out. If I had checked to see what it was, I might've gotten really excited! Instead, I was in a state of awe when I saw a quarter-sized Silver Disc in the plug. Sorry for the crappy photos--they were taken with the flash, and it was almost dark!
I looked at the edge to see if I had an American coin or a Spanish--and the edge was reeded. I figured this would probably not be a Barber--so probably Seated but perhaps Capped. I gently pulled the coin free from the clod and turned it over and the date of 1854 was staring me in the face:
Within another 15 minutes it was totally dark, and we made our way out of the field, trying not to trip and impale ourselves on corn stubble. :P
It's turning into a Fine year so far for the Iron Brigade. We have dug two Beautiful Seated Dimes, a Half Real, a Seated Quarter, and a Barber Dime this year. For once, the silver outnumber the IH's for me--which is pretty astounding. And the weirdest thing is that nobody has dug a Large Cent yet. I think I must've spent all our mojo digging 20 of 'em last year...
So here are the finds--before cleaning:
Rodeo's Toy axe head:
The finds after cleaning:
And my Seated Lady:
A BIG thank-you to Rodeo for such great research. You're a top-notch hunter, my friend.
Best Wishes,
Buckles
Rodeo Recon and I teamed up today and he took me out to a few new spots he'd researched. We had both freed up our day to dig from morning till dark. Well...by the time we found the first site it was 2 in the afternoon.
I managed to get a Beautiful gilded civilian button and a late-date IH cent. Then we did a bit of swinging in the second site--finding a few interesting old relics which we left with the property owner. (We put this one on the "back-up" list, due to the VAST numbers of canning jar lids there. :P)Then we decided that there was still time for site #3. We were determined to bring home some goodies even if we had to break out the headlamps.
So...we got permission and got swinging!
My first signal was a flat button. Then the pewter spoon handles started showing up.
Rodeo got a candlestick finger loop, and a great Toy Hatchet Head. I then dug the bootstrap piece to a small mid-1800s spur. Hunting around the same area, I found another piece. I then spent most of an hour looking for more of it, and managed to find the neck (minus the rowel). The fourth piece I found in Rodeo's detecting bag. :P
I was quite pleased with the spur, but decided to postpone looking for the rest of it in the hopes that some other interesting finds might be dug. Circling up around the front of the site, I got a faint signal and dug a tiny 3-piece button, which I suspected was either a State Seal or General Staff Officer cuff button. After cleaning, it was indeed a GS cuff.
Although we were both beat from over 9 hours of hunting, we started to race against the setting sun. Rodeo dug some suspender clips, part of a brass stirrup, and a beautiful arrowhead. (Anyone know what type of material it's made of?) I got a solid hit right in the middle of a plow-destroyed pile of aluminum can slaw. Rather than thumbing the knob on the detector, I simply dug the target out. If I had checked to see what it was, I might've gotten really excited! Instead, I was in a state of awe when I saw a quarter-sized Silver Disc in the plug. Sorry for the crappy photos--they were taken with the flash, and it was almost dark!
I looked at the edge to see if I had an American coin or a Spanish--and the edge was reeded. I figured this would probably not be a Barber--so probably Seated but perhaps Capped. I gently pulled the coin free from the clod and turned it over and the date of 1854 was staring me in the face:
Within another 15 minutes it was totally dark, and we made our way out of the field, trying not to trip and impale ourselves on corn stubble. :P
It's turning into a Fine year so far for the Iron Brigade. We have dug two Beautiful Seated Dimes, a Half Real, a Seated Quarter, and a Barber Dime this year. For once, the silver outnumber the IH's for me--which is pretty astounding. And the weirdest thing is that nobody has dug a Large Cent yet. I think I must've spent all our mojo digging 20 of 'em last year...
So here are the finds--before cleaning:
Rodeo's Toy axe head:
The finds after cleaning:
And my Seated Lady:
A BIG thank-you to Rodeo for such great research. You're a top-notch hunter, my friend.
Best Wishes,
Buckles
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