Bill D. (VA)
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Got out again with my good friend and hunting partner Dan, and we hit some new as well as old sites. Our first stop was to finish digging out and sifting a pit from the previous weekend that produced all the bellarmine jug fragments. But the dirt was too dense and wet for that so we just eyeballed a few pieces and then filled it in. At the nearby 2nd site we both recovered a few buttons and other misc relics, but Dan made the best 2 finds there as he'll show in his upcoming post. We ended Saturday freezing our fannies off at one of our premier sites, and it still surrendered a few goodies. This morning we finally got an opportunity to hit three small and adjacent fields we've wanted to get into for a while. Two of them were picture-perfect with nice high spots, but both were completely devoid of finds with no brick or iron patches found. This left the 3rd and smallest field which did not have a good "look", but my first target was a colonial buckle so we slowed down and dug quite a few colonial artifacts - mostly tombacs and buckle pieces. And strangely a lot of sugar spoon bowl parts turned up. For some reason this field was turned upside down, i.e., the best and oldest finds were primarily very shallow (<3"), and shotgun shells and other modern junk was deep. After we figured that out it was kinda weird hoping to hear a loud, shallow hit as usually those end up being junk at the type of sites we hunt. We only had half a day, and before leaving we did a little survey to see how far the finds extended from our initial hotspot, and were surprised at the coverage. So we definitely have something to look forward to next time there.
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