wilkere
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- Sep 11, 2007
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The other day N.Y. Rob emailed me at work looking to see if I wanted to do some Indian relic hunting over at the sod farm west of New Bern that I have never been to because of work. “Dude, didn’t you say that there’s some old pottery and glass laying around?” “Let me bring up the detectors if the farmer doesn’t mind maybe there’s some old coins and buttons in the ground.” I emailed back. So the stage was set for a afterwork Friday afternoon pleasant hunt in rural North Carolina. Ole N.Y. Rob and his father in law Dan have been hunting these fields for the last few years pulling Indian points and tools. They call the pounding tools made by the X-man cuz they have a x chiseled in them by the maker, I guess kinda like Craftsman marks their tools.
We checked in with the sod shop and fingered some of the nice Indian relics that they have picked up that were laying around the shop, then headed to the fields. You could make out where in the past the house must have stood as the few trees stuck out in the middle of one field and the surrounding field was littered with old glass and whatnot. I was digging alone with my Excalibur, Danny and N.Y.Rob were a team with a extra detector and a shovelman. Digging around the probable house area turned up everything such as old solid irons, and other house debris. N.Y. Rob found a lump of silver which must have been a coin that melted when the house burned down, while I pulled a 1920’s era Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor emblem.
N.Y.Rob and Danny hitting the sod
Moving over the road, we passed a small cluster of headstones shaded by a few trees a few feet off the highway. The man who once owned the place was a Confederate in the N.C. Calvary during that war as his cracked gravestone was there with the C.S.A. marker. “Hey Bob check out what Danny found!” N.Y. Robs calls from across the street. I look and see Danny pulling something from his mouth , so I wander over.
Me and the Indian Head
(Add N.C. drawl for effect) “Lookit this man! I jus found it laayin right ther on top of the dirt man.” And there it was, the best coin I have ever seen found metal detecting, except I guess since it was pick up off the top of the sand without a metal detector it probably doesn’t count. Anyway it was a 1823 Half Dime that the old Confederate must have dropped a few years after the minting date as it was in FINE shape indeed. (Later Danny said it’s about a $500 buck coin from a internet search) Me? Well I finally found a coin, a 1903 Indian head so we all came out alright, just gotta find some time to hit it again!
( Yep I know, where's the picture? I'll try and get one from Danny but he's pretty secretive and paranoid, feds coming to get his Indian relics and all that stuff)
http://www.okinawarelics.com
We checked in with the sod shop and fingered some of the nice Indian relics that they have picked up that were laying around the shop, then headed to the fields. You could make out where in the past the house must have stood as the few trees stuck out in the middle of one field and the surrounding field was littered with old glass and whatnot. I was digging alone with my Excalibur, Danny and N.Y.Rob were a team with a extra detector and a shovelman. Digging around the probable house area turned up everything such as old solid irons, and other house debris. N.Y. Rob found a lump of silver which must have been a coin that melted when the house burned down, while I pulled a 1920’s era Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor emblem.
N.Y.Rob and Danny hitting the sodMoving over the road, we passed a small cluster of headstones shaded by a few trees a few feet off the highway. The man who once owned the place was a Confederate in the N.C. Calvary during that war as his cracked gravestone was there with the C.S.A. marker. “Hey Bob check out what Danny found!” N.Y. Robs calls from across the street. I look and see Danny pulling something from his mouth , so I wander over.
Me and the Indian Head(Add N.C. drawl for effect) “Lookit this man! I jus found it laayin right ther on top of the dirt man.” And there it was, the best coin I have ever seen found metal detecting, except I guess since it was pick up off the top of the sand without a metal detector it probably doesn’t count. Anyway it was a 1823 Half Dime that the old Confederate must have dropped a few years after the minting date as it was in FINE shape indeed. (Later Danny said it’s about a $500 buck coin from a internet search) Me? Well I finally found a coin, a 1903 Indian head so we all came out alright, just gotta find some time to hit it again!
( Yep I know, where's the picture? I'll try and get one from Danny but he's pretty secretive and paranoid, feds coming to get his Indian relics and all that stuff)
http://www.okinawarelics.com
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Its amazing what can be found just lying on the ground. Had a couple of finds like that myself over the years.
