A few nice bullets from Saturday

[plugcutter84]

Got out on Saturday to a property in va. It's a pretty big farm, has some civil war history on the property as well as an old school house foundation. The school was built in 1800. I spent about 2 hours around the foundation with the 5x8 coil on my at pro. The best find from there was a toasted wheat penny. I had my hopes up for some good artifacts, but the amount of junk in the ground was unbelievable. I think it was used as a dump site in the mid 1900's.
moved on to another area of the property and got a solid hit near an old stone wall. Dug a nice round ball, and then another a few feet away. The second one I found has 3 round marks on the top of it which must've been from buck balls. Also found 2 fired bullets, 2 minie balls, and a pulled/wormed pistol bullet. When I got home and cleaned the dirt out of the bases, i realized one of the 3 ringers I found is a star base from the Washington arsenal. Everything was from an area about 50ft x 100ft. Pretty good day in all, hoping to get some buttons/coins next time we got out there. HH!

 

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[Old Dude]

Very nice finds. Looks like that site needs another hunt or 2! Thanks for sharing and what a great surprise when you cleaned that bullet up.

 

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[JohnnyRebCSA]

Thats what we like to see!! Go pull more stuff out.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Awesome! Ya you need to go back there again!

 

[plugcutter84]

Thanks everyone, yeah I'm looking forward to getting back. It won't be this weekend as its a pretty long haul from my house, but I have another site that's a small civil war camp that I'll be at on Sunday. I've pounded it pretty hard and the finds are getting slim, but I rarely get skunked there. Even just finding a fired bullet or some camp lead is always a thrill.

 

[diggervet]

hunt slow and steady through some of that trashy area, lots of people may have just passed it by and missed some decent things!