Iron Patch
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- Sep 28, 2007
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Tried a few ideas today, but all failed for various reasons, so ended up at the same old spot and yesterday and the detecting God has turned off the tap. It's not like there was piles yesterday, but today was quite a struggle just to dig some holes.
Now here's the weird thing that happened. I've been hunting with someone who is a total newbie, so we can have discussions about just about anything, which I am more than happy to have. Today's driving talk on the way to the site was about how rough it must have been back in the day, and how things like having an infection could be a death sentence. I then said a lot of times they were sick they probably didn't even know what they had, and some even used lead for things like spoons having no idea it could be harmful. I said that with the thought in mind of a post that went on here a while back that had many replies, it was a lead pipe, and I bet some regs. would remember it. Anyway, we get to one of the fields to try, me that has never even found a clay pipe, and you know I'm not even sure if I have found a complete bowl of one.... so I walk across the field by the creek where there seems to be a little iron and some pottery, and the only thing I dig is.... can you guess? .... a lead pipe!
If you could figure out how to put odds on that one I'd have to think about 100 million to one. 13 or so years of detecting, never found a pipe, never had that conversation on the way to a site, and bang, a lead pipe. Weird. I really have to talk about numbered belt plates more often.
The coin is also a first, so nothing killer, but something.
Now here's the weird thing that happened. I've been hunting with someone who is a total newbie, so we can have discussions about just about anything, which I am more than happy to have. Today's driving talk on the way to the site was about how rough it must have been back in the day, and how things like having an infection could be a death sentence. I then said a lot of times they were sick they probably didn't even know what they had, and some even used lead for things like spoons having no idea it could be harmful. I said that with the thought in mind of a post that went on here a while back that had many replies, it was a lead pipe, and I bet some regs. would remember it. Anyway, we get to one of the fields to try, me that has never even found a clay pipe, and you know I'm not even sure if I have found a complete bowl of one.... so I walk across the field by the creek where there seems to be a little iron and some pottery, and the only thing I dig is.... can you guess? .... a lead pipe!
If you could figure out how to put odds on that one I'd have to think about 100 million to one. 13 or so years of detecting, never found a pipe, never had that conversation on the way to a site, and bang, a lead pipe. Weird. I really have to talk about numbered belt plates more often. The coin is also a first, so nothing killer, but something.
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