Bill D. (VA)
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Yesterday's pile of colonial goodies including 2 KG coppers
My partner Dan already provided the background regarding our hunt yesterday in his recent post, so I won't provide a repeat. But I do have to reiterate that we experienced the full gamut of hunting conditions going from a snow-covered arctic tundra to a mudfest within the course of about 5 hours. Chomping away at the frozen turf with a pick-axe is no fun as many of you know, but trying to retrieve your unearthed artifact from a handful of mud soup is no picnic either. In spite of all the difficulties it turned out to be a productive day for both of us. After our initial disappointment with gridding the area of most promise with very little to show, things changed quickly when we started wandering and both of us settled into our own artifact-rich hotspots within 5 min. Buttons started coming out at a rapid pace and we ended up with about 50 between the 2 of us. I finally got the colonial coin train going with the recovery of a KG copper. At first I though it was a large flat button as it was reading rather low (55 on my F75), but the left facing bust confirmed the ID. After Dan dug his early LC and cut silver I was fortunate to get a nice high tone just before we were preparing to leave, and another KG popped out with a 1745 date. I have to say its extremely unusual for us to be digging so many coppers and so few silvers at the last couple of sites. My long term ratio is about 4:1 in favor of silver. But I'm not complaining as I have embarrassingly few KGs in my collection. My only button that was out of the ordinary was this very tiny one with a cool looking lion design. I also dug what appeared to be a couple of thimbles, but it seems as though they were purposely made without tops. Not sure how they could function properly with that kind of design. But maybe that's not what they are?? The last 2 pics show a very interesting brass item I dug in a very small trash pit that contained only a little bit of charcoal and bones. A number of other chewed up pieces of brass were also in the pit that were probably part of this item. Don't have a clue what it might be. Hopefully things will dry up soon so we can get back in there for a little more enjoyable hunting and pit digging, but the next week looks to continue to be wet. But guess that's better than the 6-8" of snow and -4F temp we had last week.
My partner Dan already provided the background regarding our hunt yesterday in his recent post, so I won't provide a repeat. But I do have to reiterate that we experienced the full gamut of hunting conditions going from a snow-covered arctic tundra to a mudfest within the course of about 5 hours. Chomping away at the frozen turf with a pick-axe is no fun as many of you know, but trying to retrieve your unearthed artifact from a handful of mud soup is no picnic either. In spite of all the difficulties it turned out to be a productive day for both of us. After our initial disappointment with gridding the area of most promise with very little to show, things changed quickly when we started wandering and both of us settled into our own artifact-rich hotspots within 5 min. Buttons started coming out at a rapid pace and we ended up with about 50 between the 2 of us. I finally got the colonial coin train going with the recovery of a KG copper. At first I though it was a large flat button as it was reading rather low (55 on my F75), but the left facing bust confirmed the ID. After Dan dug his early LC and cut silver I was fortunate to get a nice high tone just before we were preparing to leave, and another KG popped out with a 1745 date. I have to say its extremely unusual for us to be digging so many coppers and so few silvers at the last couple of sites. My long term ratio is about 4:1 in favor of silver. But I'm not complaining as I have embarrassingly few KGs in my collection. My only button that was out of the ordinary was this very tiny one with a cool looking lion design. I also dug what appeared to be a couple of thimbles, but it seems as though they were purposely made without tops. Not sure how they could function properly with that kind of design. But maybe that's not what they are?? The last 2 pics show a very interesting brass item I dug in a very small trash pit that contained only a little bit of charcoal and bones. A number of other chewed up pieces of brass were also in the pit that were probably part of this item. Don't have a clue what it might be. Hopefully things will dry up soon so we can get back in there for a little more enjoyable hunting and pit digging, but the next week looks to continue to be wet. But guess that's better than the 6-8" of snow and -4F temp we had last week.
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