Bill D. (VA)
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Today's early button haul
My buddy Dan and I headed out this morning for what we figured might be a short hunt with the impending rain, but we managed to get in about 4 hours before the heavens started opening up. We hit a new field that was adjacent to where we found 6 colonial silvers last spring along with a ton of other finds. We weren't disappointed as I started hitting on buttons almost immediately, and they kept coming one after another. All were from the late 1700s through early 1800s, and I suspected it may have been a small, early military camp as we could never find anything close to an iron patch, although some occasional brick was noted. When I got home and started cleaning the 24 buttons I had recovered I was surprised to find one of them was a War of 1812 era light artillery which helped to confirm my suspicions about the site. Other notable finds included a large dandy button and part of a watch winder. I kept waiting on a nice coin to appear as my experience has been that cut silver usually shows up at these kind of sites. But Dan was "silver boy" today with the recovery of a really cool 1600s cob about 5 min before we called it a day. He dug it in a part of the field with very hard ground, and where I had earlier decided it was too much trouble to mess with. Guess I got what I deserved ..... haha. We'll definitely be going back for a return visit after the holidays.
My buddy Dan and I headed out this morning for what we figured might be a short hunt with the impending rain, but we managed to get in about 4 hours before the heavens started opening up. We hit a new field that was adjacent to where we found 6 colonial silvers last spring along with a ton of other finds. We weren't disappointed as I started hitting on buttons almost immediately, and they kept coming one after another. All were from the late 1700s through early 1800s, and I suspected it may have been a small, early military camp as we could never find anything close to an iron patch, although some occasional brick was noted. When I got home and started cleaning the 24 buttons I had recovered I was surprised to find one of them was a War of 1812 era light artillery which helped to confirm my suspicions about the site. Other notable finds included a large dandy button and part of a watch winder. I kept waiting on a nice coin to appear as my experience has been that cut silver usually shows up at these kind of sites. But Dan was "silver boy" today with the recovery of a really cool 1600s cob about 5 min before we called it a day. He dug it in a part of the field with very hard ground, and where I had earlier decided it was too much trouble to mess with. Guess I got what I deserved ..... haha. We'll definitely be going back for a return visit after the holidays.
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