HutSiteDigger
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- Nov 26, 2012
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- Fisher 1266x and a shovel
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- All Treasure Hunting
Was finally able to talk this old man and his wife (his wife was the one more of less who convinced her husband to let me hunt) to getting permission to hunt their 700+ acre farm in the Northern Neck of Virginia, down by the Rappahannock River yesterday. I pulled insurance maps from the 18th & early 19th C. of their property & showed them information they didn't know. I wasn't able to hunt near their Victorian period house that dates to the 1840s (huge house) but was able to hunt half of their property @ spots where the insurance maps showed.
I kinda got a late start yesterday and pretty much this was only a one day permission grant (the old man who owns this property is kinda not a people type person if you get what i'm saying - he won't let from what I hear anyone game hunt or MD ever - so this def. got me going when his wife said ok) anyway - here are the finds from a 3 hour hunt and this was just in a fairly small area of the property, i can only image what the rest of the property is hiding and if i can even get back:
Two 18th century big floral flat buttons
Two medium sized civilian 18th C. buttons (one with cloth still attached to it!!!!)
One 1860s floral button
One 1820s-1830s civilian button
One Early 1820s eagle button (the first 1820s eagle button I have dug)
Two very early 18th C. (rev war era?) buttons one with rifle crosses on it and the other with a floral type design? If anyone knows more about these let me know.
And one early 19th C. (possible late 18th C.) hoe ..
I tried to share some of my artifacts with the oldman and his wife, they didn't want any of them. The oldman walked away like he didn't give a crap but his wife sat and talked to me in the living room for almost an hour, so I am hoping I can come back...
I kinda got a late start yesterday and pretty much this was only a one day permission grant (the old man who owns this property is kinda not a people type person if you get what i'm saying - he won't let from what I hear anyone game hunt or MD ever - so this def. got me going when his wife said ok) anyway - here are the finds from a 3 hour hunt and this was just in a fairly small area of the property, i can only image what the rest of the property is hiding and if i can even get back:
Two 18th century big floral flat buttons
Two medium sized civilian 18th C. buttons (one with cloth still attached to it!!!!)
One 1860s floral button
One 1820s-1830s civilian button
One Early 1820s eagle button (the first 1820s eagle button I have dug)
Two very early 18th C. (rev war era?) buttons one with rifle crosses on it and the other with a floral type design? If anyone knows more about these let me know.
And one early 19th C. (possible late 18th C.) hoe ..
I tried to share some of my artifacts with the oldman and his wife, they didn't want any of them. The oldman walked away like he didn't give a crap but his wife sat and talked to me in the living room for almost an hour, so I am hoping I can come back...
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