I've done very little digging in the last year and a half. On October 12, a digging buddy invited me to hunt a Union camp. For most of the time I concentrated on a large patch of iron, digging many large signals (see pic) that could be masking other signals or could themselves be worth finding. One of them did mask a Minie ball. Finally, not long before rain drove us off, I went outside the iron a bit and came upon a decent signal. Eleven inches down, I see green! I called my friend over and carefully dug out a nearly perfect US buckle. It's in the best condition of any plate I've dug by far.
On October 21, I went to an old site of mine that was a CS/US camp site and a home site. I was finding a few relics and a lot of trash. After digging several cans in a row, I got yet another "Buckle" signal on my MXT and began chopping through roots to get to it. It wasn't as deep as I thought, as my shovel had already found it.
It was lying face down, and was clearly a tongue portion of a tongue and wreath buckle. Expecting a civilian buckle, I flipped it and saw "CS". Then I flipped.
The shovel scraped the piece next to the "button," but fortunately the face was not touched. I've been back since, trying to find the wreath before making this post, but so far it's been elusive.
I included shots of all the targets dug on each trip to illustrate how much trash was dug to get to the find of the day. Both buckles were found near the end of each hunt. Thanks for looking!
-Jason
On October 21, I went to an old site of mine that was a CS/US camp site and a home site. I was finding a few relics and a lot of trash. After digging several cans in a row, I got yet another "Buckle" signal on my MXT and began chopping through roots to get to it. It wasn't as deep as I thought, as my shovel had already found it.
It was lying face down, and was clearly a tongue portion of a tongue and wreath buckle. Expecting a civilian buckle, I flipped it and saw "CS". Then I flipped. The shovel scraped the piece next to the "button," but fortunately the face was not touched. I've been back since, trying to find the wreath before making this post, but so far it's been elusive. I included shots of all the targets dug on each trip to illustrate how much trash was dug to get to the find of the day. Both buckles were found near the end of each hunt. Thanks for looking!
-Jason
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