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I did a little more detecting at the old high school. It was in the low 30s with snow flurries while I was detecting. Quite a change from6 the 60s and 70s when I was in Florida. As usual I found a ton of tabs digging all the mid and high tones. I got a few large bits of iron, a few bits of can slaw, a piece of copper tubing and copper wire.
I managed to find 77 coins with a face value of $3.79, an NJOY smoking device, 2 silver dimes a CW bullet and a brass thumb screw, probably from a brass instrument.
The first dime was a 1943 Rosie found around the stump of an old pie tree. It was only about an inch down and it has small pitts all over it like something in the soil ate into it. The second one was a weak iffy tone. Since I was digging all the mid and high tones I went for it and found the merc on edge down about 10 inches in the clay just below the top soil.
The CW bullet looks like another .44 caliber Watervliet arsenal. The base is mashed, probably by the heavy equipment used to make the school field.
I did some detecting the day before on campus in the same cruddy weather and found more coins and the usual junk. I also found a round ball. It is in really good shape with a mold seam and sprue from the mold. It has no signs of oxidation from its time in the ground like most old lead would. Sometimes in certain clay soils the lead does not oxidize. Unfortunately this soil does produce oxidation, as seen on other CW bullets found here. So I have to conclude this one was molded for use by some black powder enthusiast. You can never be totally sure with a round ball, but this one does not look old to me.
So some more silver, one CW bullet and a good time outdoors in the cold. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
I managed to find 77 coins with a face value of $3.79, an NJOY smoking device, 2 silver dimes a CW bullet and a brass thumb screw, probably from a brass instrument.
The first dime was a 1943 Rosie found around the stump of an old pie tree. It was only about an inch down and it has small pitts all over it like something in the soil ate into it. The second one was a weak iffy tone. Since I was digging all the mid and high tones I went for it and found the merc on edge down about 10 inches in the clay just below the top soil.
The CW bullet looks like another .44 caliber Watervliet arsenal. The base is mashed, probably by the heavy equipment used to make the school field.
I did some detecting the day before on campus in the same cruddy weather and found more coins and the usual junk. I also found a round ball. It is in really good shape with a mold seam and sprue from the mold. It has no signs of oxidation from its time in the ground like most old lead would. Sometimes in certain clay soils the lead does not oxidize. Unfortunately this soil does produce oxidation, as seen on other CW bullets found here. So I have to conclude this one was molded for use by some black powder enthusiast. You can never be totally sure with a round ball, but this one does not look old to me.
So some more silver, one CW bullet and a good time outdoors in the cold. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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