Johnny Ringo Silver
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I noticed they were tearing out a residential street here in town and along with the street, they decided to pull up the sidewalks on both sides also.
It looked like they might have taken out too much material in the street but the sidewalk area was prime and begging to be hunted. I stopped for about an hour last night to give it a shot and I ended up digging my first confirmed fatty!! Its an indian head dated 1863. I also dug an 1889 and a 1891. After finding those in just an hours time, I knew I needed to get back out there before the sidewalks got replaced soo I stopped tonight after work for a couple of hours working the same sidewalk that I had already started on. It wasnt long before I got another good signal and out popped another indian. A few feet further and I get an identical signal that I was sure was another indian and turned out to be 4 of them stuck together in the same hole. I can make out an 1889 on one of them and 1891 on another. Later on I dug a 1915 buffalo, a chinese cash coin, a pretty neat necklace and a military pin of some sort. I also dug a trade token for a pool hall in hutchinson kansas good for 2 and a half cents in trade. 3 indians yesterday and 7 today gives me 10 total with possibly 9 of them being in the 1800's. The 4 that are stuck together are staying like that for now so I can show them around before I take them apart. Some of these indians need multiple peroxide baths to get the buildup off of them. With a busy weekend ahead, I'm not sure i'll be able to spend much time detecting until sunday but if I do get some free time you know where i'll be!!
It looked like they might have taken out too much material in the street but the sidewalk area was prime and begging to be hunted. I stopped for about an hour last night to give it a shot and I ended up digging my first confirmed fatty!! Its an indian head dated 1863. I also dug an 1889 and a 1891. After finding those in just an hours time, I knew I needed to get back out there before the sidewalks got replaced soo I stopped tonight after work for a couple of hours working the same sidewalk that I had already started on. It wasnt long before I got another good signal and out popped another indian. A few feet further and I get an identical signal that I was sure was another indian and turned out to be 4 of them stuck together in the same hole. I can make out an 1889 on one of them and 1891 on another. Later on I dug a 1915 buffalo, a chinese cash coin, a pretty neat necklace and a military pin of some sort. I also dug a trade token for a pool hall in hutchinson kansas good for 2 and a half cents in trade. 3 indians yesterday and 7 today gives me 10 total with possibly 9 of them being in the 1800's. The 4 that are stuck together are staying like that for now so I can show them around before I take them apart. Some of these indians need multiple peroxide baths to get the buildup off of them. With a busy weekend ahead, I'm not sure i'll be able to spend much time detecting until sunday but if I do get some free time you know where i'll be!!
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Congrats on a very nice hunt 
I have never got to detect a tear out like that before since I am kinda new to the hobby, but now I got this new Explorer I will be on the lookout for such things!
And so how old do you think that necklace is? 
