Hot & Humid July 4th hunt 1783/1804/1813

[pepperj]

July 4th is an anniversary for me.
39 years of sobriety.

So it means a play day.

Not many choices this time of the year.
Most fields that have hay and not cut.
(nearly 7" of rain in June)
All the cropped lands are in, and growing.
So with temps @88F feeling like 99F it was challenging.
Decided on a permission that has provided lots of stuff over the past decade.
There was a cellar hole in the bush that I have basically cleaned out.
Now it was a great time to test out a new setting on the Deus ll. The Tekkna program with zero Reactivity.
The last 2 trips to this site was a zilch for recoveries.
Have hit this cellar hole with the Minelabs, Deus l & ll many times.

The finds were deep, 6-8 inches for the cuffbuttons.

The Ships Token was a crazy 14-15".

The photo shows the shovel in the hole, the blade is 11".

It seems the rubble stone foundation slide/fell as most recoveries were digging out 3-5 rocks making the recoveries slow and hard.
It seems to be a bumper crop this year for mosquitoes.

Look down I would estimate 50 flying around me.

Stop, dig, get up, that count had gone up to 200.

I wore a bug suit covering the upper body, the cuffs over the long cuffed leather gloves.
Crawling around under the cedar branches on a 25-33 degree angle slope.
Yes rewarded with a 1783 Hibernia

Got a nice Dixon & Smith pewter spoon.
Came out with a tooth.😁
Big pieces if bronze casting waste.
Took 20 minutes of root/rock digging.
The 1804 Half Cent was in the wet below the cellar.
I think there was a forage/kiln set up.

Fun hunt!

I swear I was suffering from mosquitoe PTSD last night. 🤣

 

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[pepperj]

Cool token.👍
😁 I had a pair of boots that the side opened up like that. Sewed up with 12lb fishing braid. Fixed.

Thought about doing that, 2nd pair that has split out the same way.
$100 boots last 3 yrs.
Feet were soaked though.🤣

 

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[Ed_DE]

Congrats on a great hunt & your 39 years of sobriety.
33 years for me & I still take it one day at a time.

 

[lenmac65]

Fantastic finds. I would love to find a George III like that; what a beauty. Congrats!

 

[pepperj]

Dang that tooth! Congrats on your continued sobriety

Thanks Nathan

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Why do folks always plant trees right on top of targets?

 

[Bamasteve]

Congrats on the anniversary and awesome finds!

 

[Almy]

Those are great finds and I admire your persistence. What an uncomfortable hunt with the heat, humidity and mosquitoes! My experience with bug headgear and mesh jackets is that they hold the heat in, making it worse for the wearer.
I have found examples of both those coppers in sites here in Atlantic Canada. I expect it is because similar British settlers were in both places. I've found only one American copper here, a one cent from 1853.

 

[blossom]

Ahh Peps… congrats on your anniversary and Wowser … totally awesome finds! Xx 🤗

 

[RVRoamer74]

You earned those nice finds. Keep up the good work. Congrats!!

 

[ArfieBoy]

Huge congratulations on your sobriety anniversary! And Congratulations on the super recoveries! Don't find those great scores out west here. Thanks for sharing both!

 

[Blak bart]

Nice work pepper 🌶 killer token, and 1783 piece is making me jealous 🤗...congratulations, and happy 39th sobriety birthday 🎂!!

 

[LostinGeorgia]

Very very nice. Congrats on your anniversary and finds. 35 plus years without a drink for me and glad I got that out of my system when I was young. My wife and I are here in Georgia but when my wife sees your pictures she swears that is our cedar tree and woods. Don’t think you can ever completely clean a spot up. Lord knows we have tried. I’m rambling now so good luck everybody

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

July 4th is an anniversary for me.
39 years of sobriety.

So it means a play day.

Not many choices this time of the year.
Most fields that have hay and not cut.
(nearly 7" of rain in June)
All the cropped lands are in, and growing.
So with temps @88F feeling like 99F it was challenging.
Decided on a permission that has provided lots of stuff over the past decade.
There was a cellar hole in the bush that I have basically cleaned out.
Now it was a great time to test out a new setting on the Deus ll. The Tekkna program with zero Reactivity.
The last 2 trips to this site was a zilch for recoveries.
Have hit this cellar hole with the Minelabs, Deus l & ll many times.

The finds were deep, 6-8 inches for the cuffbuttons.

The Ships Token was a crazy 14-15".

The photo shows the shovel in the hole, the blade is 11".View attachment 2157450View attachment 2157451View attachment 2157460View attachment 2157461
It seems the rubble stone foundation slide/fell as most recoveries were digging out 3-5 rocks making the recoveries slow and hard.
It seems to be a bumper crop this year for mosquitoes.

Look down I would estimate 50 flying around me.

Stop, dig, get up, that count had gone up to 200.

I wore a bug suit covering the upper body, the cuffs over the long cuffed leather gloves.
Crawling around under the cedar branches on a 25-33 degree angle slope.
Yes rewarded with a 1783 Hibernia
View attachment 2157453
View attachment 2157452View attachment 2157462View attachment 2157463View attachment 2157455View attachment 2157464
Got a nice Dixon & Smith pewter spoon.
Came out with a tooth.😁
Big pieces if bronze casting waste.
Took 20 minutes of root/rock digging.
The 1804 Half Cent was in the wet below the cellar.
I think there was a forage/kiln set up.View attachment 2157465View attachment 2157466View attachment 2157467

Fun hunt!

I swear I was suffering from mosquitoe PTSD last night. 🤣

great variety of recoveries and big time gratz on 39 years!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some great finds. I like that token.

 

[joetoilet]

July 4th is an anniversary for me.
39 years of sobriety.

So it means a play day.

Not many choices this time of the year.
Most fields that have hay and not cut.
(nearly 7" of rain in June)
All the cropped lands are in, and growing.
So with temps @88F feeling like 99F it was challenging.
Decided on a permission that has provided lots of stuff over the past decade.
There was a cellar hole in the bush that I have basically cleaned out.
Now it was a great time to test out a new setting on the Deus ll. The Tekkna program with zero Reactivity.
The last 2 trips to this site was a zilch for recoveries.
Have hit this cellar hole with the Minelabs, Deus l & ll many times.

The finds were deep, 6-8 inches for the cuffbuttons.

The Ships Token was a crazy 14-15".

The photo shows the shovel in the hole, the blade is 11".View attachment 2157450View attachment 2157451View attachment 2157460View attachment 2157461
It seems the rubble stone foundation slide/fell as most recoveries were digging out 3-5 rocks making the recoveries slow and hard.
It seems to be a bumper crop this year for mosquitoes.

Look down I would estimate 50 flying around me.

Stop, dig, get up, that count had gone up to 200.

I wore a bug suit covering the upper body, the cuffs over the long cuffed leather gloves.
Crawling around under the cedar branches on a 25-33 degree angle slope.
Yes rewarded with a 1783 Hibernia
View attachment 2157453
View attachment 2157452View attachment 2157462View attachment 2157463View attachment 2157455View attachment 2157464
Got a nice Dixon & Smith pewter spoon.
Came out with a tooth.😁
Big pieces if bronze casting waste.
Took 20 minutes of root/rock digging.
The 1804 Half Cent was in the wet below the cellar.
I think there was a forage/kiln set up.View attachment 2157465View attachment 2157466View attachment 2157467

Fun hunt!

I swear I was suffering from mosquitoe PTSD last night. 🤣

Congratulations on both. I am a Friend of Bill W.

 

[TreaShore]

Nice coins and token. You never provided an update on what other coins you got. You know, the ones from leaving that tooth under your pillow for the tooth fairy.

 

[pepperj]

Congratulations on both. I am a Friend of Bill W.

My sister-in-law gave me a wooden plaque.
The serenity prayer inscribed upon it.

I was 14 yrs old at the time.

 

[cannonball]

July 4th is an anniversary for me.
39 years of sobriety.

So it means a play day.

Not many choices this time of the year.
Most fields that have hay and not cut.
(nearly 7" of rain in June)
All the cropped lands are in, and growing.
So with temps @88F feeling like 99F it was challenging.
Decided on a permission that has provided lots of stuff over the past decade.
There was a cellar hole in the bush that I have basically cleaned out.
Now it was a great time to test out a new setting on the Deus ll. The Tekkna program with zero Reactivity.
The last 2 trips to this site was a zilch for recoveries.
Have hit this cellar hole with the Minelabs, Deus l & ll many times.

The finds were deep, 6-8 inches for the cuffbuttons.

The Ships Token was a crazy 14-15".

The photo shows the shovel in the hole, the blade is 11".View attachment 2157450View attachment 2157451View attachment 2157460View attachment 2157461
It seems the rubble stone foundation slide/fell as most recoveries were digging out 3-5 rocks making the recoveries slow and hard.
It seems to be a bumper crop this year for mosquitoes.

Look down I would estimate 50 flying around me.

Stop, dig, get up, that count had gone up to 200.

I wore a bug suit covering the upper body, the cuffs over the long cuffed leather gloves.
Crawling around under the cedar branches on a 25-33 degree angle slope.
Yes rewarded with a 1783 Hibernia
View attachment 2157453
View attachment 2157452View attachment 2157462View attachment 2157463View attachment 2157455View attachment 2157464
Got a nice Dixon & Smith pewter spoon.
Came out with a tooth.😁
Big pieces if bronze casting waste.
Took 20 minutes of root/rock digging.
The 1804 Half Cent was in the wet below the cellar.
I think there was a forage/kiln set up.View attachment 2157465View attachment 2157466View attachment 2157467

Fun hunt!

I swear I was suffering from mosquitoe PTSD last night. 🤣

Now that's the way to do it! A big congratulations on the killer finds. A bigger congratulations on your 39 years in recovery so you could make those killer finds. Sleep tight and don't let those mosquitos bite!

 

[Digger RJ]

July 4th is an anniversary for me.
39 years of sobriety.

So it means a play day.

Not many choices this time of the year.
Most fields that have hay and not cut.
(nearly 7" of rain in June)
All the cropped lands are in, and growing.
So with temps @88F feeling like 99F it was challenging.
Decided on a permission that has provided lots of stuff over the past decade.
There was a cellar hole in the bush that I have basically cleaned out.
Now it was a great time to test out a new setting on the Deus ll. The Tekkna program with zero Reactivity.
The last 2 trips to this site was a zilch for recoveries.
Have hit this cellar hole with the Minelabs, Deus l & ll many times.

The finds were deep, 6-8 inches for the cuffbuttons.

The Ships Token was a crazy 14-15".

The photo shows the shovel in the hole, the blade is 11".View attachment 2157450View attachment 2157451View attachment 2157460View attachment 2157461
It seems the rubble stone foundation slide/fell as most recoveries were digging out 3-5 rocks making the recoveries slow and hard.
It seems to be a bumper crop this year for mosquitoes.

Look down I would estimate 50 flying around me.

Stop, dig, get up, that count had gone up to 200.

I wore a bug suit covering the upper body, the cuffs over the long cuffed leather gloves.
Crawling around under the cedar branches on a 25-33 degree angle slope.
Yes rewarded with a 1783 Hibernia
View attachment 2157453
View attachment 2157452View attachment 2157462View attachment 2157463View attachment 2157455View attachment 2157464
Got a nice Dixon & Smith pewter spoon.
Came out with a tooth.😁
Big pieces if bronze casting waste.
Took 20 minutes of root/rock digging.
The 1804 Half Cent was in the wet below the cellar.
I think there was a forage/kiln set up.View attachment 2157465View attachment 2157466View attachment 2157467

Fun hunt!

I swear I was suffering from mosquitoe PTSD last night. 🤣

Very Cool!!! Nice Pics!! Congrats!!!