Steve in PA
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- Joined
- Jul 5, 2010
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- Golden Thread
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- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 4
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F75, XP Deus, Equinox 600, Fisher 1270
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Set out this past Saturday to do a little door knocking. Had two places in mind, and if I struck out at both, I could fall back on one of my pounded permissions. First door - nobody home. Second door -bingo! There were two houses on this property. One was an abandoned tenet house and the other an occupied late 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century farmhouse. Farmer said I could hunt both, but said the abandoned house had been hunted before. I started at the abandoned house and the first ten targets were either pull tabs, aluminum screw on bottle caps, or foil balls. I was about ready to leave when I dug another hole and out pops a beautiful crossed cannons artillery insignia! Then a 1904 IHP, a Pittsburgh trolley token, and a wheat back. I figured I could come back to this place later, but I was curious what was in the farmhouse yard. The farmer’s yard was also productive. I spent several hours there Saturday and again Sunday.
The crossed cannons insignia was the find of the weekend. It is for the 5[SUP]th[/SUP] Regiment of Artillery, Battery C, and dates from 1905 to 1917, so it would have been in use during WW I. Here is the site where I got this information: http://hglanham.tripod.com/usartillery/usartillery1.html
Here are the better finds off this property. The skeleton key has already been claimed by a girl I showed it to. She wants to wear it around her neck
The item above the key is a sash buckle.
Here are the coins I found. Some Indian Head pennies and early wheats, but silver was not showing up.
I found three pins. One had Canada on a maple leaf, one had some little glass stones in a white background, and this one from the Fort Necessity Battlefield
Here is the rest of the junk I dragged home - padlock face cover, reins guide, pocket knife, spoon, and piece of clay pipe bowl. I also found a marble that I forgot to include.
The crossed cannons insignia was the find of the weekend. It is for the 5[SUP]th[/SUP] Regiment of Artillery, Battery C, and dates from 1905 to 1917, so it would have been in use during WW I. Here is the site where I got this information: http://hglanham.tripod.com/usartillery/usartillery1.html
Here are the better finds off this property. The skeleton key has already been claimed by a girl I showed it to. She wants to wear it around her neck
The item above the key is a sash buckle. Here are the coins I found. Some Indian Head pennies and early wheats, but silver was not showing up.
I found three pins. One had Canada on a maple leaf, one had some little glass stones in a white background, and this one from the Fort Necessity Battlefield
Here is the rest of the junk I dragged home - padlock face cover, reins guide, pocket knife, spoon, and piece of clay pipe bowl. I also found a marble that I forgot to include.
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