Diggincoinz
Bronze Member
- Dec 19, 2004
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab X-Terra 70 / Tesoro TigerShark / Fisher F70
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Shhhhh! It's a secret location
The fields that I've been covering the past few years are beginning to open up now as the beans are being harvested and the corn will be out soon. These fields cover over a dozen old home sites, some I'm sure were just single rooms and all were dated early 1800's and a couple colonial without a doubt.
In previous visits, diggings have included at least one large cent from each site, newest being 1853 but most were 1801 - 1820's. Many many flat buttons, a couple nice early eagle buttons, one decent 1820's Militia Belt Plate, a 1797 George III Cartwheel Penny, a 1786 1/2 Reale, two Canadian bank tokens (1837 & 1854) and probably a few other things for sure, including a few wheaties, a buffalo nickel and a couple of indian head cents. There really isn't any "new" stuff there
The first field that opened up I have pounded hard in earlier visits with my Minelab X-70 and had dug two early LC's and was really surprised last weekend when I found not one, but two more! Thought for sure I had cleaned that place out. Well I sold the Minelab locally and purchased a Fisher F-70 this year and it has done me good to date. It rang in these two Draped Busts with no problem! First one appears to be 1801 and the second seems to be 1798 (shown below) although I'm doing a slow soaking of them in olive oil to remove that caked on dirt and hoping to reveal some clearer dates. more from the weekend came a WWII era two-piece Waterbury uniform eagle button, a nice victorian suspender clasp and a Aviation this, it really cool but I don't know what it really is. Do you?
The beauty in this Fatty 1859 Indina Head Cent shown below I dug in early summer, only my 2nd in 11yrs of detecting have I dug one in such nice condition. Also is a holed no date large cent with a natural question mark (see pic). Here's some pics if I can get them to load for me.... Thanks for looking!
The fields that I've been covering the past few years are beginning to open up now as the beans are being harvested and the corn will be out soon. These fields cover over a dozen old home sites, some I'm sure were just single rooms and all were dated early 1800's and a couple colonial without a doubt.
In previous visits, diggings have included at least one large cent from each site, newest being 1853 but most were 1801 - 1820's. Many many flat buttons, a couple nice early eagle buttons, one decent 1820's Militia Belt Plate, a 1797 George III Cartwheel Penny, a 1786 1/2 Reale, two Canadian bank tokens (1837 & 1854) and probably a few other things for sure, including a few wheaties, a buffalo nickel and a couple of indian head cents. There really isn't any "new" stuff there
The first field that opened up I have pounded hard in earlier visits with my Minelab X-70 and had dug two early LC's and was really surprised last weekend when I found not one, but two more! Thought for sure I had cleaned that place out. Well I sold the Minelab locally and purchased a Fisher F-70 this year and it has done me good to date. It rang in these two Draped Busts with no problem! First one appears to be 1801 and the second seems to be 1798 (shown below) although I'm doing a slow soaking of them in olive oil to remove that caked on dirt and hoping to reveal some clearer dates. more from the weekend came a WWII era two-piece Waterbury uniform eagle button, a nice victorian suspender clasp and a Aviation this, it really cool but I don't know what it really is. Do you?
The beauty in this Fatty 1859 Indina Head Cent shown below I dug in early summer, only my 2nd in 11yrs of detecting have I dug one in such nice condition. Also is a holed no date large cent with a natural question mark (see pic). Here's some pics if I can get them to load for me.... Thanks for looking!
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