This years first CW Breast Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart, New Pics!

[MonkeyBoy]

This year's first CW Breast Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart, New Pics!

hello all,

I went back to the same spot from my last couple of postings.. the best I had done so far was a nice scabbard tip, bullets, a few buttons and a broken gold ring.. well.. not more then 15 minutes after getting there I pulled an eagle plate.. pretty much on edge at about 6" or so!! Pretty happy.. my first plate so far this year.. after a lot of shotgun shells.. I finally got a good high 70s VDI.. bouncing around a little but shallow and that I thought it would be a three ringer.. I was within 20 feet or so of where I dug some the other night.. well.. pulled the plug and there was most of a silver coin in the bottom.. I swear I thought it was a SLQ by the way it looked at first.. so I plucked it out and like an idiot.. lightly brush the dirt off.. only to realize it was a reale... ;-) turns out to be a 1780 2 reale!! so two first for the year!! I also dug a huge pocket knife at about 12" in the ground that still had the wood on the handle!! It started to fall apart as soon as I pulled it out, the back side dropping off back into the hole. Also found the metal tag or ad for the soap?? No idea on that one.. and one fired Garner. My DFX popped low bat on me the last 20 minutes or so... so I decided to call it a day..

MB

PS: For the record.. my new laptop is a Asus Eee PC and the freaking keyboard is tooooo small!!! Typos galore!!


PSS: Updated title to be clear it was a standard round eagle plate.. not a buckle or sword plate!!

New Pics at bottom of posts.. just some I had on my cell phone.. had to send that almost live update from the field to my digging buddies.. ;-)

 

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[Iron Patch]

Re: This years first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

That's a fine looking breast plate!

 

[bclark]

Re: This years first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Nice finds. I found a pocket knife myself today. Would have rather found that reale or eagle plate. none the less I am still happy about my knife. I bought a pinpointer today so I was very anxious to get out and check it out. Thanks for posting and sharing the story and pics. Good luck in the future.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: This years first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

That's a fine looking breast plate!

Yeah.. bet you say that to all the relic hunters!! ;-) Seriously, thanks!! made my day!!!

MB

 

[lovedigging]

Re: This years first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Way to go Monkeyboy, Great Plate

 

[Detectingfreak]

Re: This years first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Very nice job on the Eagle Plate and the 2 Reale! Pound that site hard! Theres bound to be more stuff there

 

[allen]

Re: This years first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

congrats on those two first for you !!!!

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: This years first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

congrats on those two first for you !!!!

Thanks!! I was getting worried!! The last two years I started off both years with a plate in Jan!! Ahh...not that I'm keeping count!! ;-) Just happy to know they are still out there!!

Honestly I'd still be there hunting right now if I had remembered to charge my battery packs!! Doh!

MB

 

[Marchas45]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Nice Eagle Plate, way to go, Charlie

 

[Golden1]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Nice finds MB
The breast plate is awesome

G1

 

[creeper71]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

read your heading an was hoping for a belt plate for ya an seen the breast plate not as good as a belt plate still a dang good find..congrats!!!!!!!!!

 

[RPG]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Nice hunt MB. Get a docking station for your laptop and it will be just like a full size PC.
Randy

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Nice hunt MB. Get a docking station for your laptop and it will be just like a full size PC.
Randy

True.. but i have a workstation in my home office.. plus 3 servers, routers.. switches etc... I run a small wireless ISP on the side and after killing 3 "real" laptops in the last 8 years... I went with a small, lightweight CHEAP one this time.. just tying to get use to it.. I have to admit the little netbooks are powerful enough.. i even run Photoshop CS2 on it well enough to process medium size photos.. the only upgrade i did was popping in an additional 1Gb stick of ram.. and it runs a long time on the battery.. I ran it over 4 hours last night at a non-profit meeting and still had 68% battery life.. not bad for a laptop in the $300s.. just the keys are too close.. hit two at once sometimes.. ok rambling on.. but this is my easychair or workshop PC.. that's about it until I need to take it to a client site to run test.. perfect for all of that..

MB

 

[sniffer]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

I think I need to move to Virginia and follow you around LOL

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

read your heading an was hoping for a belt plate for ya an seen the breast plate not as good as a belt plate still a dang good find..congrats!!!!!!!!!

Me too!!! Every time I dig an eagle plate I always do that "slowly turning it over" hoping for some arrows!!! I don't remember seeing one posted on t-net?? Has there been and I missed it?? This got me thinking.. I did a quick count of the types of plates I have dug... running a 3 to 1 ration on Eagle/Breast Plates to US buckles..US Buckles and cartridge plates about even.. and a 11 to one ratio between Breast Plates and others... sword, 4 piece enlisted, SNYs... etc... not counting any other.. ah.. different plate or associated brass.. i.e. sling buckles.. rosettes.. frames.. clip corners etc... purely based on the statistics.. i am "due" for either a US Buckle or Cartridge based on the last two years of digging... out of nine plate only one was a buckle. Ok.. that's all just the laws of averages i know... but man.. hoping it works out that way!! Hmm... maybe i should not have had that Starbucks on the way home!!! ;-)



MB

 

[halfdime]

Re: This year's first CW Breast Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

That's efficient work! Great finds!

 

[John987]

Re: This year's first CW Breast Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Nice finds!!
Congrats!!

John

 

[Jack(IN)]

Re: This year's first CW Breast Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Congrats on finding some goodies!! Love the plate!!

 

[civilman1]

Re: This year's first CW Breast Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

Isn't that the place you were supposed to bring me to Mark Beautiful dig's Buddy

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: This year's first CW Eagle Plate AND 2 Reale 20 minutes apart!!!!

read your heading an was hoping for a belt plate for ya an seen the breast plate not as good as a belt plate still a dang good find..congrats!!!!!!!!!

Me too!!! Every time I dig an eagle plate I always do that "slowly turning it over" hoping for some arrows!!! I don't remember seeing one posted on t-net?? Has there been and I missed it?? This got me thinking.. I did a quick count of the types of plates I have dug... running a 3 to 1 ration on Eagle/Breast Plates to US buckles..US Buckles and cartridge plates about even.. and a 11 to one ratio between Breast Plates and others... sword, 4 piece enlisted, SNYs... etc... not counting any other.. ah.. different plate or associated brass.. i.e. sling buckles.. rosettes.. frames.. clip corners etc... purely based on the statistics.. i am "due" for either a US Buckle or Cartridge based on the last two years of digging... out of nine plate only one was a buckle. Ok.. that's all just the laws of averages i know... but man.. hoping it works out that way!! Hmm... maybe i should not have had that Starbucks on the way home!!! ;-)



MB

LOL, those are some Fantastic finds!

Seems like my ratio the past couple years has been heavy on the Sword Belt Plate side (3 to 1 of anything else). But I think that's because I hunt areas where lots of cavalry enlisted.

Great stuff! Even though it's one of those same old eagles again it is a REALLY NICE one!



Best Wishes,



Buckles