Went back to a site that we have been finding both Confederate and Union relics. We hunted for about 4 hours this afternoon and while the digging was tough we did manage to save a few items. The 3 ringer and one of the balls were chewed while the others were drops. Also found a little cufflink. My buddy found a ringtail sharps and two three ringers. Check out the brass wedding band that I found about 8-9 inches!!
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Campsite Finds--Bullets and Wedding Band
- Thread starter Ex-Sox
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rick in mi
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Cool finds Ex-Sox,thanx for the pix.I whent out yesterday,had to break through 3 inches of frozen ground,only found .85 cents in clad,my last hunt till spring.So keep up with the cool finds and pics!!! hh rick in mi.
So the little round white things are bullets?......How old are they?.....I think I've tossed some.....Thanks Rick, I might not get to go for a while now that school is starting back but will post when I can. Yep, these are .54 and .58 caliber round balls used in muskets. These were found in a campsite from 1862, probably confederate. Bored soldiers used to sit around camp during downtime and chew and carve on these things.
OMG!......I had no idea.....What vdi reading do you get on these?.......I have found several and tossed them......Dumb butt I am lol....I mainly coin search and I live in the fort dobbs area and hadn't even thought of relic hunting.......I found one yesterday and kept it...Why I dont know but glad I did now...So do you usually dig all iron and what should I look for in readings?....thanksEx-Sox said:
3 ringers and the bigger roundballs are usually a giveaway with a vdi of 58 but the smaller roundballs and buck and balls usually give a different signal sometimes even broken. Some of the small ones I have noticed start with a vdi in the high 20's anywhere to high 40's until you dig the plug. They will then read good in the high 50's. This is just what I have found in my soil. Good luck to you Cheryl, you should do good in your area now that you know what to look for. Warning though, hunting for this Civil War stuff can get VERY addicting!! One more thing, you will usually have lots of iron in camps so I have found that if I get a signal and the pinpointing draws the coil away from the signal to iron I will dig where the signal was instead of where the pinpointer tells me to, this yields a good find about half of the time. I still get alot of edge of iron but get rewarded often also. I let the sound of the signal dictate if I dig or not and just check the numbers to verify. Those brass eagle buttons usually hit in the high 30's so don't overlook those signals and remember in the trash dig all of the good sounds until you get a good feel for things. Have fun
kaolinwasher
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Now if we could just match the dental records on those we would have a interesting story, NICE FINDS