today wasnt a big day

ironhorse

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today wasn't a big day

today was a small day


no big coppers, no big silver, no big relics, no big .......anythings

hit some of our old sites again and walked a couple of different fields with IP, the finds were there, just not anything of any size, at least for me

everything was pretty tiny compared to one another
none of the thirty or so buttons were larger than a dime! the buckle was minute, the child's thimble was cute, and the wheatie was the only and biggest coin of the day for me (way to go Abe!)

next time we'll go big or go home!
nah! we will tough it out and take whatever comes our way
 

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36.jpg colonial buttons okay with me
 

Not read it all but the buckle is an 18th C knee buckle.

You get as many buttons as we do!

At a new site it's nothing to dig 30-40 buttons sometimes , and that's per digger! Every trip back you always get more , but after a ploughing buttons always show up again. Our area seems to have lots of buttons, I can't explain it , but I ain't complaining either.
 

At a new site it's nothing to dig 30-40 buttons sometimes , and that's per digger! Every trip back you always get more , but after a ploughing buttons always show up again. Our area seems to have lots of buttons, I can't explain it , but I ain't complaining either.

Maybe Anne of Green Gables wasn't so good with the thread and needle. You guys consistantly find more buttons than most of everyone else, I know I'm not missing them because of the trash I dig. You just...for what ever reason...have more buttons.
 

Maybe Anne of Green Gables wasn't so good with the thread and needle. You guys consistantly find more buttons than most of everyone else, I know I'm not missing them because of the trash I dig. You just...for what ever reason...have more buttons.


The years where i was fairly active detecting I was digging over 1,000. My military % was pretty good too so I was popping a lot of keepers.
 

That was over two sites, but your guess is as good as mine why so many were small. We've hunted both sites in the past, and no doubt detected buttons in our finds, but to find just small ones this this time does make one think though. Other finds (junk) were just small little bits too, just dumb luck I guess. If you call it lucky
Never mind, think I know how all those buttons got lost! View attachment 891262
 

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