First hunt of 2017

[BTV Digger]

Hi fellow detectorists and a belated Happy New Year! Well, the itch to get out and detect finally got to me so I decided to get out and brave the muck for two hours this past Tuesday before heading to work. Been since the last week of November as we've been frozen rock solid up here since about then. Mountains still have plenty of snow cover, so stuck close to home in the lower elevations of the Champlain Valley in a park where I've nabbed a lot of relics over the years. Stuck to the rock walls and fields near an old cellar hole on a southern slope exposure. Ground on the shaded north slopes still too frozen despite the recent warmth. Only managed a few things, but ironically nabbed my best IH in two years on my second hole I dug...strange how this hobby works. Last year, my 9 or 10 IHs were in really poor shape. Also found an old pocket knife, finial and some sort of make-up tin - likely 20th century on that. Cellar hole has the back end of an old Model-T in it, quite interesting. Very quiet and peaceful out in the woods - and nothing special, but just nice to get back out again. HH!

John

 

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[against the wind]

Nice IHP. Cool knife
Congratulations

 

[texjim]

Awesome patina on the injun.

 

[VTColonialDigger]

Nice Finds!

 

[A2coins]

Sweet start hope the rest of the year is just as good!!!!!!!

 

[Stretch Da Truth]

Good finds there! Still frozen in VT? Just starting to get nice here in MA and then we get this arctic blast! Where is spring?

 

[sutphin]

WOW ON THE HOW,,, NICE INJUN.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[trapperart]

Good first hunt congrats

 

[doc brown]

A nice first hunt - good looking IH - congrats