Not today, but over the last few weeks...CW tree bumping paid off YUGE.

[smokeythecat]

I have to clean everything up. It's going to take awhile. Found three trees very close together. I wound up digging and digging and digging and digging, then dug some more. It took days to get, I think everything, out of the holes. Looks like the trees grew up around a "let's dump this stuff here" place at a Civil War site. Not a battlefield, but I guess a camp. Place is not on any CW map I can find. Looks like the place was hunted before but these three trees are very close together, and no one bothered squeezing between them. Not a tight fit, just not friendly considering the briers I had to move out of the way. This is otherwise known as a "honey hole".

Now, don't hurt me, I don't have any pics yet. Never can seem to remember to take the camera out with me and have NEVER done a a live dig. I'll try to post within the next day or so, but I'm still knocking rust of some of the stuff.

To wit:

CW bullets, Union and Confederate and not known
Numerous Union eagle buttons
junk iron
more junk iron
and more junk iron ( a lot got tossed)
1 ink bottle
2 cast iron axes, they were literally on TOP of each other. Had been placed there together about 1863.
More junk iron
iron barrel straps
more CW bullets
top vent to a kepi
military buckle piece
more bullets
yet more eagle buttons
knife part
large grape shot? it cleaned up real pretty and smooth
more iron junk
broken ceramic pieces (tossed most as non-descript)
ration can
more iron junk
another bullet
iron tool for a musket
broken glass (threw most of it out, could cut my little finger on it)
coin
underwear button x like 5
another ration can
military buckle part (now I know what it is!) Yeehah. Happy dance.
porcelain buttons
BETTER button
small buckle
another small buckle
I think a third one

I will be at work tomorrow and digging Saturday. Will get pics starting Saturday pm or Sunday.

I guarantee a total freak out on your part. LOTS of hard work, though.

Stuff is scattered all over the place here at the house. Like I said, more cleaning to do. Some pieces are fresh out of the ground and I deliberately left the dirt on them, for now. I'll try the new camera out on these.

 

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[kray]

What an awesome spot. You obviously put in LOTS of time there. Congrats on the amazing CS buckle. Banner find any day.

 

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[smokeythecat]

I just got permission to do the REST of the property which I don't think has ever been dug. Could be great, or garbage.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Looks like a very productive hunt, congratulations!

 

[smokeythecat]

All this weekend coming.....lots of extra batteries.

 

[Chizzy]

Thanks for the pictures!! Since I've not seen anything like these CW relics, the pics sure put your efforts and finds into perspective............just amazing!!

 

[smokeythecat]

Since last November, at the beach, TWO 14k gold earrings at the beach, one is huge, TWO large men's wedding rings, one in 10k, the bigger in 14k with 9 diamonds, about 5 POUNDS of change. And then the CW: TWO, yes TWO Confederate buckles in 2016! TWO! I didn't think anyone was allowed to get ONE in a LIFETIME. And then a gorgeous UNION breastplate and a complete officer's spur! Over 100 bullets, the axes, four broken artillery shell pieces, 1 coin, yes, just 1, although colonial coins and other from other areas, over 75 other Union marked eagle buttons and my lone Confederate button. Musket tools (2), ramrod part, bullet puller, two inks, a couple other later bottles, my other union plate and boy I can't remember what else I have stuck around here! There could never be a better year, and I'm just now getting back into the woods since March!