First the good news. Everybody found something. Now the bad. The field got planted looks like yesterday.
Anyway, a couple tnetters and I went to my favorite *cat box* to dig today. This is the site that produced the Confederate Buckle in the mid winter. We don't go every week, that would be overkill.
Anyway, Whatdidifind, vferrari, my friend Bob, who is a local digger and I hit it for about 3-4 hours this morning. Thankfully everyone got something. Whatdidifind already posted his. Bob got a minie and a belt keeper to a US buckle. That was his first belt keeper, he has never been able to dig much Civil War in the past.
Here are my goodies. View attachment IMG_0900.jpg I haven't even had the time to wash anything off yet, but that is a belt buckle! Hooks are intact but there is all around damage to it, but not horrible. We went to another site about 25 miles from here that had some colonial activity. I did probably the best there with the Deus, a 1956 Washington quarter (why couldn't it have been Spanish?), a small round ball, two pieces of camp lead and the little brass buckle than managed to make it inside the house as shown in the photo. (Plus two shotshell bases.) Hugh will post his. He was so excited! The finds were very scattered. His "best" find was in an area polluted with melted aluminum from a burned out farm tractor. My buckle was found on top of a huge underground natural gas pipeline and I almost didn't get the double burp on the Deus. But I dug it anyway, the signal was just odd. Sometimes it pays off. We had to really "think out of the box" but it paid off.
It was a lot of fun. I really don't like going by myself anymore. Finds here are getting scarce. Woods are off limits now due to poisonous snakes, and with the fresh plantings, I suppose that's it till Thanksgiving.
Anyway, a couple tnetters and I went to my favorite *cat box* to dig today. This is the site that produced the Confederate Buckle in the mid winter. We don't go every week, that would be overkill.
Anyway, Whatdidifind, vferrari, my friend Bob, who is a local digger and I hit it for about 3-4 hours this morning. Thankfully everyone got something. Whatdidifind already posted his. Bob got a minie and a belt keeper to a US buckle. That was his first belt keeper, he has never been able to dig much Civil War in the past.
Here are my goodies. View attachment IMG_0900.jpg I haven't even had the time to wash anything off yet, but that is a belt buckle! Hooks are intact but there is all around damage to it, but not horrible. We went to another site about 25 miles from here that had some colonial activity. I did probably the best there with the Deus, a 1956 Washington quarter (why couldn't it have been Spanish?), a small round ball, two pieces of camp lead and the little brass buckle than managed to make it inside the house as shown in the photo. (Plus two shotshell bases.) Hugh will post his. He was so excited! The finds were very scattered. His "best" find was in an area polluted with melted aluminum from a burned out farm tractor. My buckle was found on top of a huge underground natural gas pipeline and I almost didn't get the double burp on the Deus. But I dug it anyway, the signal was just odd. Sometimes it pays off. We had to really "think out of the box" but it paid off.
It was a lot of fun. I really don't like going by myself anymore. Finds here are getting scarce. Woods are off limits now due to poisonous snakes, and with the fresh plantings, I suppose that's it till Thanksgiving.
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