Well, to start, while there has been weather permitting me to hunt over here on the east coast, I was blessed this past February to have a second child, a daughter. So, a 2 month old daughter, and a 3.5 year old son equates to very little alone time for Daddy. I was fortunate this past weekend to get some nice detecting time in.
Saturday afternoon while the wife took the kids to the library, I hit a park nearby that I found some nice relics last year. Military buttons from the Civil War era and some Spencer rounds. I wanted to see if I could hit the outside border of the park that is usually overgrown. Unfortunately, not a lot of targets, combined with a barrier of vicious pricker bushes backed by a slushy swamp kept me back in the main part of the park. I moved to the back of the park down a walking trail I had found all of the bullets late last year. I believe a hilly portion of the trail was the receiving end of a 1800's firing range. As luck would have it, I found some more rounds along with a few other trinkets. To top the afternoon off, my wife and family joined us and we had a nice picnic!
Later that evening my wife took the kids to her parents house for dinner. I stayed home to take care of a few chores, having finished them up with some daylight left, I decided to walk across the street and hit some portions of the old mill sites I hadn't gone to before. I'm glad I did. Trekking through the underbrush I gazed up a steep hill trying to imagine where people may have tred and what places they would likely take up an activity or two. I saw one hill in particular that was larger and flatter than the rest. I headed that way and before I got half way up the sweet sound of nail infested turf sang through my head phones. Taking my time I combed the hill top and found some interesting items. I'm not sure on the age of the buckles, but they look fairly old. The one button has a dark blue glass center. It's pretty cool, though I think I nailed it with my digger. Anyway, I ended up staying until dusk and had to fight my way through some trickey terrain to get myself to "civilization". A fantastic adventure to end a wonderful day of detecting.
Enjoy the pics, if someone has an idea on the age of some of the items let me know. I know the area I was detecting had mills on it from the early 1800's.
Saturday afternoon while the wife took the kids to the library, I hit a park nearby that I found some nice relics last year. Military buttons from the Civil War era and some Spencer rounds. I wanted to see if I could hit the outside border of the park that is usually overgrown. Unfortunately, not a lot of targets, combined with a barrier of vicious pricker bushes backed by a slushy swamp kept me back in the main part of the park. I moved to the back of the park down a walking trail I had found all of the bullets late last year. I believe a hilly portion of the trail was the receiving end of a 1800's firing range. As luck would have it, I found some more rounds along with a few other trinkets. To top the afternoon off, my wife and family joined us and we had a nice picnic!
Later that evening my wife took the kids to her parents house for dinner. I stayed home to take care of a few chores, having finished them up with some daylight left, I decided to walk across the street and hit some portions of the old mill sites I hadn't gone to before. I'm glad I did. Trekking through the underbrush I gazed up a steep hill trying to imagine where people may have tred and what places they would likely take up an activity or two. I saw one hill in particular that was larger and flatter than the rest. I headed that way and before I got half way up the sweet sound of nail infested turf sang through my head phones. Taking my time I combed the hill top and found some interesting items. I'm not sure on the age of the buckles, but they look fairly old. The one button has a dark blue glass center. It's pretty cool, though I think I nailed it with my digger. Anyway, I ended up staying until dusk and had to fight my way through some trickey terrain to get myself to "civilization". A fantastic adventure to end a wonderful day of detecting.
Enjoy the pics, if someone has an idea on the age of some of the items let me know. I know the area I was detecting had mills on it from the early 1800's.
