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[Steve in PA]

This past Sunday I was able to get back to the site where I found the cob a few weeks back. No cobs this time, but I did get a nice scribed tombac that will look good in the display. Speaking of the display, here is my display of the better finds from this site, minus my latest finds.


There are three distinct sites on this property. The first one I started hunting almost 20 years ago and it has produced finds from the 1790s to the 1840s, including two Rattlesnake & Stars buttons, two Harrison Campaign buttons, four one piece convex eagle artillery buttons, and a Vermont copper, among other things. It is loaded with broken redware, blue and green feather edge china, and other ceramics. The second site is a late 1800s home site that has produced a few Indian head pennies and suspender clips, but not much else of note. The third site has just recently come to light and is the earliest in terms of finds. It has produced a several tombac buttons, a couple KG III coppers, a part of a shoe buckle, and the cob. The finds from this site are about the same age as the earliest finds from the first site. But they are not concentrated and there is very little in the way of broken pottery and ceramics. I believe this may have been a staging area or temporary shelter when the initial site was under construction. In fact I have found matching silver plated buttons from the first site and the new site.

Anyway I spent my time Sunday in the new area. This was my first signal.


One of the nicer tombacs I have dug in a while.


Here are the other finds. A couple more buttons and a couple badly deteriorated coppers.

 

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[OutdoorAdv]

Those scribed tombacs are some of my favorites, and thats one good looking button. Sounds like an awesome site Steve. Looking forward to seeing what else you pull from that place.

 

[Tuberale]

Nice finds from your sites, Steve. Thanks for sharing.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice stuff

 

[joeyfresh]

That's a nice bunch of finds. A cob, a couple of patriotic and Harrison campaign buttons, nice spoons...you've cleaned up. How long of a span is that?

 

[Steve in PA]

That's a nice bunch of finds. A cob, a couple of patriotic and Harrison campaign buttons, nice spoons...you've cleaned up. How long of a span is that?

My first visit was probably in 1996. I dug one of the rattlesnake buttons on that first visit. I stopped hitting it for a number of years then when I got the Fisher F75 I went back in 2008 and dug another rattlesnake button. The F 75 opened the site up again, and I would go there from time to time since it is fairly close to my house. Now I have an XP Deus. I took a buddy there in January and he picked out a tombac in an area across a little creek and swamp from the main site. We hit that area that day and I found a copper and he found a Spanish coin button. Since then I have expanded on that area and found a few more things.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Great assortment of colonial keepers, congratulations!

 

[Tommy G]

Some outstanding finds! I've never found a scribed tombac, only plain; so for me that is quite unique. You have some very productive sites!

 

[VOL1266-X]

That has proven to be a very productive site Steve. Like the button and you have a great display from the site. WTG, Q.

 

[Ahab8]

Those tombacs are beautiful if you get em in great condition like that. It would be awesome to get enough for an entire display. Greta stuff as usual buddy

 

[Steve in PA]

Those tombacs are beautiful if you get em in great condition like that. It would be awesome to get enough for an entire display. Greta stuff as usual buddy

Thanks Abe, I can't tell you how many broken scribed tombacs I've dug. Seems like the scribed ones break easier, maybe because the scribing weakens them. I do have enough for a display, but they are scattered over a number of site specific displays.

 

[texjim]

Awesome digs

 

[Patriot Relics]

Nice work on the tombac, but that pair of rattlesnake buttons has me drooling

 

[Scrappy]

Absolutely amazing scribed tombac button. Your incredible spot keeps producing and I'm happy to be able watch the show. Great display - great finds - incredible spot.

Congrats again Steve

 

[romeo-1]

That IS one of the best tombac buttons i've seen!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Wow. 20 years and your still pulling some great finds from that location. Congrats on another great hunt Steve.

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Twenty years is a long time to work a site! Glad to see you are still finding quality artifacts years later, it's nice to have a place like that to fall back on.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Very nice button Steve, and glad to see you can still find a site to hit at this time of year. It's been almost 3 months since I had to hang it up, and probably 4 more before I can get back into the fields. That's along time to sit on the sidelines although I hope to alleviate my misery soon with a little water hunting. Good hunt!

 

[Mackaydon]

Great display;worthy of a LIKE by itself.
Don....

 

[Steve in PA]

Very nice button Steve, and glad to see you can still find a site to hit at this time of year. It's been almost 3 months since I had to hang it up, and probably 4 more before I can get back into the fields. That's along time to sit on the sidelines although I hope to alleviate my misery soon with a little water hunting. Good hunt!

Bill,

This is a cow pasture and he has the cows in there year round, so it is always available. I have another stand by site that I have been hunting for just about as long that is another cow pasture. But he takes the cattle out during the winter and doesn't put them back in until about now. The cows should have the grass down far enough in about another month. Don't you have any cow pasture sites?