VaGent
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- Central Virginia
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- Currently Deus XP, also have 2 Minelab Explorer XS as backups.
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
My digging buddy and I spent a solid 6-1/2 hours in the woods today at his new permission. Walked at least 5 miles total. This site is almost 1000 acres, and has been surveyed to be a subdivision. Hopefully work will not start on it until next Spring; there is a LOT of potential good stuff to be dug here.
The woods were very thick and still full of green. I got a faceful of spider webs many times, saw four box turtles, but no snakes. There is a definite house site in there, around which we spent much of the day. The house predates the Civil War, but is not on the CW maps, so it likely was gone by 1861.
I did not find any military items, but got quite a bit of junk brass, cast iron, and pewter. I dug so many shotgun shells I had to empty my pouch in the woods. (Left them at the base of a metal fence post, so they did not just get strewn all over the place). My keepers for the day include a brass and an iron harness buckle, a nice colonial knee buckle, a decorated hollow pewter tube (?), an 1810 big penny, a 1773 Virginia half-penny (worn badly as they always are), and a broken 1852 silver three cent coin. I don't know if I hit it with the shovel, or if it was already broken like that; I could not find the rest of it. They are so thin and brittle that most of the ones I find are broken.
My buddy will send me pics of his finds later; he beat me good. He dug a bullseye rosette, a big penny, several buttons (two might be early militia), and a sweet Spanish silver 4 Reale coin cut in half.
Overall a GREAT start to the season, good weather, the machines worked perfectly, and we found stuff worth keeping!
The woods were very thick and still full of green. I got a faceful of spider webs many times, saw four box turtles, but no snakes. There is a definite house site in there, around which we spent much of the day. The house predates the Civil War, but is not on the CW maps, so it likely was gone by 1861.
I did not find any military items, but got quite a bit of junk brass, cast iron, and pewter. I dug so many shotgun shells I had to empty my pouch in the woods. (Left them at the base of a metal fence post, so they did not just get strewn all over the place). My keepers for the day include a brass and an iron harness buckle, a nice colonial knee buckle, a decorated hollow pewter tube (?), an 1810 big penny, a 1773 Virginia half-penny (worn badly as they always are), and a broken 1852 silver three cent coin. I don't know if I hit it with the shovel, or if it was already broken like that; I could not find the rest of it. They are so thin and brittle that most of the ones I find are broken.
My buddy will send me pics of his finds later; he beat me good. He dug a bullseye rosette, a big penny, several buttons (two might be early militia), and a sweet Spanish silver 4 Reale coin cut in half.
Overall a GREAT start to the season, good weather, the machines worked perfectly, and we found stuff worth keeping!
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