Ditch finds from 1850’s fort

[history preserved]

The ditch.... This site has been one of my most productive sites ever. This particular property has a pretty big backyard that I’ve hunted a million times, and up until a couple months ago, I thought the site was basically hunted out. Running through the side of the property, there is a ditch... not too long, but when we started looking, we found pottery just laying there. I had previously thought that ground was too un-natural for there to be relics, so I didn’t hunt there. One day, I started scanning where I was looking for the pottery and couldn’t believe the amount of relics I was finding in such a small area! Percussion caps, buttons, bullets, pottery, and you name it. The ditch itself is actually part of the original ditch that got straightened out. I’ve posted a lot of pictures from this site, but here is the pile JUST from the ditch on the property so far. With a small concentrated area however, relics will start slowing down. By the third day when Michael (NuggetNoggin) was hunting with me, we didn’t even find a button. I’m now going to probably wait till it gets cooler and more storms erode at the side of the ditch and reveal some more. Hope you guys enjoyed the story of the “ditch site” (as I have named it). Hopefully more will come out in the future.

 

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[villagenut]

Nice assortment of finds. I would go back with a sifter if I were you.

 

[Davers]

Great Site .

Keep hunting the area as it will be waiting on you.

Great Job on Saving the History of that Fort.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice variety of finds. Congrats

 

[Southern_Digger]

Good to see the site is still producing. The ditch has been kind to me too in years past, however, at times it was filled with water. I'm curious how you clean your buttons. The no. 1 hat number represents the First Artillery Regiment. Once they were stationed at Ft. __ also. I have data on the cmdg. LT. & some soldier's names whom were serving in Fla. Also I have a Regt. letter from the same company. I won't give that out so not to divulge the site location. Will do in private communication. Once I told a young upcoming relic hunter who searched with a Minelab Explorer that by switching brand detectors and rechecking a site will give surprising results. Sometimes as if the site has not been hunted before--all has to do with frequency and nearby signal interferences. That is why I own nine detectors of which seven are still usable. Does this sound familiar to you? Even the Minelab Excalibur is do-able. A friend used one on a SemWar site (3rd War) in past years and dug a beautiful XF 1857 dime--brought fresh the US mint--to paymaster who visited each post with payroll--and, to the soldier and immediately lost thereafter in soft phosphated soil. That site was occupied only in 1857-58.

 

[Rookster]

Way ta go.nice finds.

 

[history preserved]

Good to see the site is still producing. The ditch has been kind to me too in years past, however, at times it was filled with water. I'm curious how you clean your buttons. The no. 1 hat number represents the First Artillery Regiment. Once they were stationed at Ft. __ also. I have data on the cmdg. LT. & some soldier's names whom were serving in Fla. Also I have a Regt. letter from the same company. I won't give that out so not to divulge the site location. Will do in private communication. Once I told a young upcoming relic hunter who searched with a Minelab Explorer that by switching brand detectors and rechecking a site will give surprising results. Sometimes as if the site has not been hunted before--all has to do with frequency and nearby signal interferences. That is why I own nine detectors of which seven are still usable. Does this sound familiar to you? Even the Minelab Excalibur is do-able. A friend used one on a SemWar site (3rd War) in past years and dug a beautiful XF 1857 dime--brought fresh the US mint--to paymaster who visited each post with payroll--and, to the soldier and immediately lost thereafter in soft phosphated soil. That site was occupied only in 1857-58.

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[devldog]

Congrat's to you on some nice relics and Saved History. What size coil were you using? You might go back over the ditch with a larger coil that would gain you a little more depth to anything that might be a bit deeper that a smaller coil wasn't able to read. Just a thought. Well Done on the relics.