Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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[size=large]A farmer had told us of a field that they had found arrow heads in after it rains. Well we got plenty of rain here the last few days, so today I took my wife and girls out to the plowed field, but after 45 minutes of 6 of us looking, we found no arrrowheads. Chris showed up and was looking for arrowheads as well, and he went down near the woods and discovered an old home site. So after the girls left, Chris and I went down with the metal detectors and poked around the old place. Pottery shards were everywhere; unfortunately all we found today was a lot of iron at that spot. Click on photos to enlarge.[/size]
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[size=large]Here's a picture of Chris, we are just inside the woods a ways. I found three stirrups from the 1800's, one was pretty small and looked like a child's. [/size]
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[size=large]I kicked a big board over and saw a little snake slither under the leaves. Carefully making sure it wasn't a baby copperhead by checking the color if its tail (they have yellow tails) I brushed the leaves away and saw it was a cute little ringnecked snake. I've caught many of these during my childhood. I[/size]
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[size=large]We ended up going to another spot looking for some Civil War relics. Chris got a good signal, brushed the leaves away, and there was a Civil War bullet lying on the ground. First time I've ever seen this![/size]
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[size=large]I ended up with 3 Civil War bullets and this Union artillary coat button.[/size]
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[size=large]Here's my finds for the day, check out the size of that acorn sitting on the stirrup; biggest one I've ever seen. [/size]
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[size=large]A closeup of the eagle button, about 60% of the gold remaining.[/size]
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[size=large]Here's a picture of Chris, we are just inside the woods a ways. I found three stirrups from the 1800's, one was pretty small and looked like a child's. [/size]
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[size=large]I kicked a big board over and saw a little snake slither under the leaves. Carefully making sure it wasn't a baby copperhead by checking the color if its tail (they have yellow tails) I brushed the leaves away and saw it was a cute little ringnecked snake. I've caught many of these during my childhood. I[/size]
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[size=large]We ended up going to another spot looking for some Civil War relics. Chris got a good signal, brushed the leaves away, and there was a Civil War bullet lying on the ground. First time I've ever seen this![/size]
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[size=large]I ended up with 3 Civil War bullets and this Union artillary coat button.[/size]
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[size=large]Here's my finds for the day, check out the size of that acorn sitting on the stirrup; biggest one I've ever seen. [/size]
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[size=large]A closeup of the eagle button, about 60% of the gold remaining.[/size]