Pickin’ Through the Wooded Iron Patch

[MD Ghost F75]

Yesterday I decided to get out of the fields and hit a group of cellar holes in the woods I haven’t touched for over a year. Site is about 50 yds square of constant iron grunts on every swing. Only way to search is with a small coil, work slow, and dig all iffy signals that squeal through the iron. I tried a different technique since my last time here which only yielded one button. I’ve previously dug seated coins, Indians, and Trimes from this site so I know there’s still stuff to find. As you can see the buttons were popping out of the ground. One of the 2 pc buttons has a train on it, got a small ball button with design, a couple flatties with nice back marks, and one brittle casted button. I believe the disc is an iron button but not sure, I’ve only found one other one before. A few other odds and ended included the little clasp. Does anyone recognize this as a garment clasp? Seems a little harsh and has some iron corrosion. Also dug a nice bale seal. All in all I had a lot of fun in the woods sniping for small targets in the iron and can’t wait to get back. Thanks for looking!

 

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[grasshopper]

Great to see you were able to pull some more keepers out of there! Congrats!!

 

[pepperj]

Still some good picking at the site, well done on the recoveries.
It's been awhile since a seal has shown up in the dirt for me.

 

[MD Ghost F75]

Still some good picking at the site, well done on the recoveries.
It's been awhile since a seal has shown up in the dirt for me.

Thanks. Come to think of it, it’s been about 3 yrs since I picked one.

 

[Digger RJ]

Yesterday I decided to get out of the fields and hit a group of cellar holes in the woods I haven’t touched for over a year. Site is about 50 yds square of constant iron grunts on every swing. Only way to search is with a small coil, work slow, and dig all iffy signals that squeal through the iron. I tried a different technique since my last time here which only yielded one button. I’ve previously dug seated coins, Indians, and Trimes from this site so I know there’s still stuff to find. As you can see the buttons were popping out of the ground. One of the 2 pc buttons has a train on it, got a small ball button with design, a couple flatties with nice back marks, and one brittle casted button. I believe the disc is an iron button but not sure, I’ve only found one other one before. A few other odds and ended included the little clasp. Does anyone recognize this as a garment clasp? Seems a little harsh and has some iron corrosion. Also dug a nice bale seal. All in all I had a lot of fun in the woods sniping for small targets in the iron and can’t wait to get back. Thanks for looking!

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[lenmac65]

Nice button haul. Congrats!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very nice !

 

[DiggingSicilia]

constant iron grunts on every swing.

Sounds like all the fields in my area. Just gotta dig. Nice finds

 

[scruggs]

Nice recoveries you did good!

 

[oldmxrat]

Great rewards, congrats!

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's a real nice collection of finds. Cheers!