Doug from NS
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- Apr 21, 2019
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- Detector(s) used
- Currently Fisher F75LTD SE
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
My son and I spent a couple of hours this afternoon along an old woods road with a number of old homesteads, not far from our home.
There was an off road leading down thru the muck that had wanted to check out. It lead to a nice old field with a number of old apple trees and a deer blind. Right off I found the buckle which we were both pleased with. With half an hour or so of finding nothing else except a lot of shell casings we went to leave when we both got signals in the muck along the road that read about exactly what shell casings do. I got an 1861 British halfpenny and 5 feet away my son got a Nova Scotia One Cent. They are both quite pitted but I can see the 186 of the date on the NS cent. The last digit is pretty much gone but it is definitely not a 4. I can see just a trace of a curved top, is it the rare 1862? I think it might be but will never be sure. It has the small rosebud so that rules out the 1861 large rosebud.
Almost back to the truck I spotted some apple trees and we made our way to them thru the brush and came across what was a small orchard and a good sized foundation that I did not know was there. The area is pitted with holes of previous detectorists who did not bother filling in (Boo!). We managed to pull up a nice 1913 silver 5 cent, which are among my favorites. We will be back.
They won't make us rich but an afternoon in the sun detecting with my son is priceless.
I don't know why, but each of the photos gets inverted when I load them here, sorry for the upside-downness. They are the right way up on my computer.
There was an off road leading down thru the muck that had wanted to check out. It lead to a nice old field with a number of old apple trees and a deer blind. Right off I found the buckle which we were both pleased with. With half an hour or so of finding nothing else except a lot of shell casings we went to leave when we both got signals in the muck along the road that read about exactly what shell casings do. I got an 1861 British halfpenny and 5 feet away my son got a Nova Scotia One Cent. They are both quite pitted but I can see the 186 of the date on the NS cent. The last digit is pretty much gone but it is definitely not a 4. I can see just a trace of a curved top, is it the rare 1862? I think it might be but will never be sure. It has the small rosebud so that rules out the 1861 large rosebud.
Almost back to the truck I spotted some apple trees and we made our way to them thru the brush and came across what was a small orchard and a good sized foundation that I did not know was there. The area is pitted with holes of previous detectorists who did not bother filling in (Boo!). We managed to pull up a nice 1913 silver 5 cent, which are among my favorites. We will be back.
They won't make us rich but an afternoon in the sun detecting with my son is priceless.
I don't know why, but each of the photos gets inverted when I load them here, sorry for the upside-downness. They are the right way up on my computer.
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