SPWalker
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Alamo period Mexican breast plate.
This is perhaps the best find that I have had in my seven years of MD?ing.? It was found in Mexico, South of Saltillo on a campsite of the 1836 Mexican Army. The number ?24? indicates that it was from the 24th battalion or regiment (do not know as of yet). I was out with three friends and they had their mind set on looking for arrowheads that day. I requested to be dropped off at a site in the area that they believed to be well hunted out over the last 10 years. I was contempt just to get to have a chance at a button.? When we got to the site, one friend who had found the camp site years before told me were the active area had been. The area was small and pottery from an old trash dump area was on top of the ground. The Group worked the area for about 30 minutes and one musket ball was found and two colonial buttons with a Fisher CZ-3d I had brought as a spare.? With in the first 20 minutes I hit an iron signal and pulled out the first shovel full of dirt and the signal went to coin. I put my CZ-7A down to dig deep and after two more shovels full I had moved the signal to the pile of dirt pull from the hole. The signal went to a large signal (like the ringing of a telephone), in the next second I bent down to see the back of the plate and I knew what I had. Many of my friends had told me of the finds that they had found and I had seen photos of these plates in books and in collections. It was such a thrill to pull one up myself. I never considered myself to be a ?Big Dog? till I found my first legitimate plate.? The group celebrated with me and was off to the opposite side of our friend?s ranch to look for arrowheads. In the next six hours (before dark) I also picked up my second plate (a brass belt buckle), three Mexican eagle buttons, several musket balls, several colonial buttons and two pony horseshoes. I guess we never really get it all do we.
The plate I found was in perfect condition and will be one of the center points of my collection. Any additional help on the history of the find would be appreciated.
Keep on digging and thanks for reading.
S. Walker
This is perhaps the best find that I have had in my seven years of MD?ing.? It was found in Mexico, South of Saltillo on a campsite of the 1836 Mexican Army. The number ?24? indicates that it was from the 24th battalion or regiment (do not know as of yet). I was out with three friends and they had their mind set on looking for arrowheads that day. I requested to be dropped off at a site in the area that they believed to be well hunted out over the last 10 years. I was contempt just to get to have a chance at a button.? When we got to the site, one friend who had found the camp site years before told me were the active area had been. The area was small and pottery from an old trash dump area was on top of the ground. The Group worked the area for about 30 minutes and one musket ball was found and two colonial buttons with a Fisher CZ-3d I had brought as a spare.? With in the first 20 minutes I hit an iron signal and pulled out the first shovel full of dirt and the signal went to coin. I put my CZ-7A down to dig deep and after two more shovels full I had moved the signal to the pile of dirt pull from the hole. The signal went to a large signal (like the ringing of a telephone), in the next second I bent down to see the back of the plate and I knew what I had. Many of my friends had told me of the finds that they had found and I had seen photos of these plates in books and in collections. It was such a thrill to pull one up myself. I never considered myself to be a ?Big Dog? till I found my first legitimate plate.? The group celebrated with me and was off to the opposite side of our friend?s ranch to look for arrowheads. In the next six hours (before dark) I also picked up my second plate (a brass belt buckle), three Mexican eagle buttons, several musket balls, several colonial buttons and two pony horseshoes. I guess we never really get it all do we.
The plate I found was in perfect condition and will be one of the center points of my collection. Any additional help on the history of the find would be appreciated.
Keep on digging and thanks for reading.
S. Walker
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