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Took Modern Miner on a "Field Trip" today...
...and a great trip it was. Chris (mave2535) and I invited Modern Miner out with us today to our "Maverick Site" way out in the sticks. It's a late 1800's home/farm site with massive potential. The house itself was burned down in 1986 (built sometime in the 1870s) and never cleaned up - therefore, impossible to get near/onto the foundation (tin roof laying on top of it all). Chris and I will be undertaking the monumental task of clearing some timber and all the "remains" of the roof and such this winter. We know for sure there are good things to dig underneath it all. Anyway, there are at least four other structures located within 30 yards or so surrounding the house itself. Beyond that, we have approximately 160 acres of bean fields to hunt and across the road there is another 100 acres of field as well as another fifty right on the river. We started off in the vicinity of the house and out buildings - my first good signal was a small broken buckle still attached to a small leather strap (possibly an old dog collar?) - before filling my plug I ran the coil over the hole again to see if maybe the other piece wasn't still in there. I got another sharp signal again so I ran the pinpointer around the sides and low and behold I saw the edge of a coin. I called Chris and Doug over to check it out because it looked like gold on the edge. When I pulled it out it still looked gold and I thought all three of us would have a coronary
. Unfortunately it was not gold but it turned out to be a 1924 50 Centimes! I'd love to know the story on how an early French coin found it's way to a farm in the middle of North Carolina! Well, we ended up diggin' lots of iron and some interesting things that I'll let the boys post on there own, but one of the coolest "finds" we made today was a colonial era burial ground back in the woods between the river and the field! The landowner had told us of a colonial era homesite in the far corner of his property - it's part of an original land grant of 680 acres granted to a settler by the King of England back in the 1600s!!! We didn't find the foundation (yet) but we did find the headstones. That was all the proof we needed. I managed to get a few shots of the stones (see pics) but the one I'll be going back to re-shoot pics of is the earliest date we found - 1716!!! As soon as they cut the remainder of the beans, we'll be hitting that field hard and hopefully digging up some killer North Carolina colonial relics!
All in all, we may not have found "Yama-sheet-a treasure"
- but we had a great time. The weather was outstanding and the company was great. Doug and I played a cruel joke (all in good fun) on Chris (see video) 
- and we all had a bunch of laughs. Truly my best "find" of the day was actually a gift - Doug gave Chris and I both our "first" Civil War bullets from his collection. I got the chills just holding that thing - truly awesome. My apologies for the novel-length post, but it's been a while since I posted anything decent. Enjoy the pics and the hilarious short video (courtesy of Modern Miner Productions ) and keep on swingin'... 
By the way - Doug left the dress at home thank goodness...
...and a great trip it was. Chris (mave2535) and I invited Modern Miner out with us today to our "Maverick Site" way out in the sticks. It's a late 1800's home/farm site with massive potential. The house itself was burned down in 1986 (built sometime in the 1870s) and never cleaned up - therefore, impossible to get near/onto the foundation (tin roof laying on top of it all). Chris and I will be undertaking the monumental task of clearing some timber and all the "remains" of the roof and such this winter. We know for sure there are good things to dig underneath it all. Anyway, there are at least four other structures located within 30 yards or so surrounding the house itself. Beyond that, we have approximately 160 acres of bean fields to hunt and across the road there is another 100 acres of field as well as another fifty right on the river. We started off in the vicinity of the house and out buildings - my first good signal was a small broken buckle still attached to a small leather strap (possibly an old dog collar?) - before filling my plug I ran the coil over the hole again to see if maybe the other piece wasn't still in there. I got another sharp signal again so I ran the pinpointer around the sides and low and behold I saw the edge of a coin. I called Chris and Doug over to check it out because it looked like gold on the edge. When I pulled it out it still looked gold and I thought all three of us would have a coronary
. Unfortunately it was not gold but it turned out to be a 1924 50 Centimes! I'd love to know the story on how an early French coin found it's way to a farm in the middle of North Carolina! Well, we ended up diggin' lots of iron and some interesting things that I'll let the boys post on there own, but one of the coolest "finds" we made today was a colonial era burial ground back in the woods between the river and the field! The landowner had told us of a colonial era homesite in the far corner of his property - it's part of an original land grant of 680 acres granted to a settler by the King of England back in the 1600s!!! We didn't find the foundation (yet) but we did find the headstones. That was all the proof we needed. I managed to get a few shots of the stones (see pics) but the one I'll be going back to re-shoot pics of is the earliest date we found - 1716!!! As soon as they cut the remainder of the beans, we'll be hitting that field hard and hopefully digging up some killer North Carolina colonial relics!All in all, we may not have found "Yama-sheet-a treasure"
- but we had a great time. The weather was outstanding and the company was great. Doug and I played a cruel joke (all in good fun) on Chris (see video) - and we all had a bunch of laughs. Truly my best "find" of the day was actually a gift - Doug gave Chris and I both our "first" Civil War bullets from his collection. I got the chills just holding that thing - truly awesome. My apologies for the novel-length post, but it's been a while since I posted anything decent. Enjoy the pics and the hilarious short video (courtesy of Modern Miner Productions ) and keep on swingin'... By the way - Doug left the dress at home thank goodness...
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