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Planned an early morning hunt with MetalHeadz. The first old homesite was at the base of a hillside. Every swing had a mix of clean 10, 17 and 27 signals, but they were all bullets. Turns out that this section of hillside must have been a shooting range of some sort in the distant past. So we packed up and drove to our backup spot that we had researched. When we got to the site in the woods it was obvious that it had been a major industrial dump site in the past, covered with big chunks (fridge size) of cement and rebar, un-swingable.
Louis recommended a site 3 minutes down the road with a couple 1800’s cellars that he had hit with his ATP. We still had about 90 minutes left in our morning hunt and surprisingly this back up to a back up site was still productive with our Nox’es.
This is the size of a silver dollar, might be a military hat disc? But the heavy leather still on the back has me thinking rosette?
Suspender clip and a fancy piece with a brass pin still on the back.
Then a really nice 32-33 signal, thought it was a silver quarter.
Turned out to be a Hickock style belt buckle. I have found a couple of these in the past, but always plated, this is my first solid Sterling buckle! I think these are early to mid 1900’s.
Here is the handful (less a nice old milk jug not pictured).
Good luck out there!
Louis recommended a site 3 minutes down the road with a couple 1800’s cellars that he had hit with his ATP. We still had about 90 minutes left in our morning hunt and surprisingly this back up to a back up site was still productive with our Nox’es.
This is the size of a silver dollar, might be a military hat disc? But the heavy leather still on the back has me thinking rosette?
Suspender clip and a fancy piece with a brass pin still on the back.
Then a really nice 32-33 signal, thought it was a silver quarter.
Turned out to be a Hickock style belt buckle. I have found a couple of these in the past, but always plated, this is my first solid Sterling buckle! I think these are early to mid 1900’s.
Here is the handful (less a nice old milk jug not pictured).
Good luck out there!
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