Finds are hard to come by anymore at this site, but I still manage to squeak out a keeper most of the time. Last night I got this nice gilded button with a Booth & Brooks - Baltimore back mark on it. It's a good find for that site because of how densely packed the nail bed is and because almost every other button from there has been a colonial-era flat button that was dull gray and (usually) coming apart, and most don't have a back mark on them. I can't find much info on that company, but all the references I found for it are around 1820, which puts it right in the middle of where we have dated this home site to. Everything that's come out of there so far has been 1790s-1860s and this is right with that time frame. This sucker is HEAVY and solid too! I can't believe how heavy it is, which makes me wonder what it's made of... it rang up at 12-40/41 pretty solidly at about 6" or so. Any thoughts?
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Another save from my field of nails
- Thread starter TrpnBils
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IDXMonster
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Lead with gold leaf? Sweet! Are you learning anything different yet? I'd try Ground Coin and Auto +0 just to cut back on the iron it's seeing. Maybe a real low Manual number even, like 10-12....
IDXMonster said:
You think lead? If it were lead and gold leaf wouldn't it come in low like lead and gold? I was wondering if it was copper or something with gold leaf, but it's so heavy...
I am learning for sure, but limited time in the field is still making it slow going. Pretty much just investigating lower CO targets right now because the any high CO squeaks are probably being ignored because they sound like iron falsing. I'm trying to get past that, but it's rough. The only reason I really got this one is because it was in an area near the road that we hardly ever touch because there's so much modern junk there from people throwing crap out of their car windows (cans, pull tabs, lighters, etc). Right now I've got seawater ON, which may or may not help (hard to tell, but it doesn't seem to be hurting anything), and I tried ground balancing a couple of times the other day. I didn't notice any appreciable difference with that so it's turned off for now. Normally I throw it in ferrous coin because of the amount of iron there, but I will give ground coin a shot and see what happens next time I'm there. I hadn't even intended on going to this field the other night, but ended up there only because I was on limited time and the site that I had started at (a new one) was LOADED with modern trash and was basically unhuntable because somebody was using the cellar hole for a garbage dump...
IDXMonster
Well-known member
I've had certain sinkers come in really high so who knows....and that's so true about trash by the road, you have to get really lucky when dealing with decades of car trash!
