Fossil_adult
Jr. Member
- Apr 9, 2021
- 93
- 363
- Detector(s) used
- Got a Chinese knockoff brand off Amazon. Now I don’t know how to use it or where to even begin.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
This has been a very peculiar time for me. With the passage of almost a year I’ve been finding very little artifacts. Plenty of fossils, of course, but not much in terms of artifacts. Maybe a marble here, or a brass key there, but otherwise, nothing. All of the sudden, I find one bottle dump right near where I live. Found some cool late 18th century bottle fragments and a really nice WW1 collar disk.
Then, not even 24 hours pass, and I find ANOTHER site. In DC. Now if y’all have been to DC, then you’ll know it’s really not that big of a city. Despite its small size, however, I have managed to find TWO more artifact sites. I am extremely pleased and now I won’t have to worry about artifacts anymore!
Anyways, it’s a large hillside that spans to about the size of a block lengthwise. There is a LOT of ground to cover, and from the looks of it, has remained untouched since people stopped throwing trash there. I am of course reminded that since this is a city, there are encampments there where others live, so I always try to be courteous and give them space.
Now onto the finds. I didn’t find as many bottles. Most of them had been deliberately smashed by the number of rocks present and remains of once intact bottles (internal crying) but I managed to scoop up some really awesome stuff. Here’s all the artifacts found here:
All the finds:
The finds include a blue bottle with no embossing and a lip chip (sad); three buttons (ceramic, plastic, and oyster shell); a shotgun shell fragment (scary for most of the city); a really nice pipe bowl, some really cool marbles including some made of clay, and a weird metal sphere that I have no idea what it is and what it was used for. Any help would be greatly apprieciated. I also found a rusted out sewing machine but left it because it screamed tetanus.
Flipped:
Favorite specimens:
All and all, this was a very pleasing hunt. I will come back to this spot with a lot more knowledge and a better digging tool than some broken clay pot lid. It’s always fun to find artifacts in the capitol I’m now hoping to find a local DC druggist bottle here that’d be cool.
Then, not even 24 hours pass, and I find ANOTHER site. In DC. Now if y’all have been to DC, then you’ll know it’s really not that big of a city. Despite its small size, however, I have managed to find TWO more artifact sites. I am extremely pleased and now I won’t have to worry about artifacts anymore!
Anyways, it’s a large hillside that spans to about the size of a block lengthwise. There is a LOT of ground to cover, and from the looks of it, has remained untouched since people stopped throwing trash there. I am of course reminded that since this is a city, there are encampments there where others live, so I always try to be courteous and give them space.
Now onto the finds. I didn’t find as many bottles. Most of them had been deliberately smashed by the number of rocks present and remains of once intact bottles (internal crying) but I managed to scoop up some really awesome stuff. Here’s all the artifacts found here:
All the finds:
The finds include a blue bottle with no embossing and a lip chip (sad); three buttons (ceramic, plastic, and oyster shell); a shotgun shell fragment (scary for most of the city); a really nice pipe bowl, some really cool marbles including some made of clay, and a weird metal sphere that I have no idea what it is and what it was used for. Any help would be greatly apprieciated. I also found a rusted out sewing machine but left it because it screamed tetanus.
Flipped:
Favorite specimens:
All and all, this was a very pleasing hunt. I will come back to this spot with a lot more knowledge and a better digging tool than some broken clay pot lid. It’s always fun to find artifacts in the capitol I’m now hoping to find a local DC druggist bottle here that’d be cool.
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