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Just for Fun ..................
- Thread starter Elton
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I dug this buckle on the 30th of March this spring. 10" deep. A very solid 80. It came from a piece of park district land in Central Illinois. Best guess is it was lost at a GAR gathering. When I finally got down to it, it felt alot like a flattened can. But when I tapped it with the tip of my pro-pointer, it didn't sound like a can, and I couldn't budge it. I had a hard time getting my chubby little fist into the hole, due to all the 3/4" and larger tree roots, so I dug a secondary shaft and removed it through that. Very glad I wasn't tapping it with my digger
This is a Celtic gold stater of the Whaddon chase variation that i found just over 2 years ago here in the UK with the standard T2.
Please note this is not mine as i have it one another pc that i dont have access to it over the weekend but it will give you some idea on what they look like.
It's a Whaddon Chase stater, struck by the Catuvellauni tribe c.55-45 BC. The Catuvellauni, 'men good in battle', were one of the two main north-Thames tribes, concentrated in Hertfordshire and including parts of seven surrounding counties. They were probably the most powerful tribe in Britain when their king, Cassivellaunos, commanded the British coalition against Caesar in 54BC. Mint-sites at their capital, Verlamio (St Albans), and maybe Braughing.
What is interesting about this coin is the farm that we had been detecting on has produced about 15 of these exact coins within a 50ft radius this amount in such a small area indicates only one thing a hoard,but we have been back a few times and found a few more in the same location but as yet we cannot find the main source of them,with so many high quality gold coins in close proximity usually indicates 2 possible theories either a purse drop or a hoard in say a pot or some other container but in the 1st option you would usually find what we call the metal purse bars that held the leather purse to the owners belt as the leather would have rotted over time and hence this is why we suspect the hoard being in a non metalic pot ie a ceramic pot.
So after the crops come off later in a few months time it will be back again to the same farm and see if his deep ploughing has shifted some more,the farmer has a US Cat tracked tractor that has massive amounts of power hence he can plough so much deeper and with each new ploughing he takes a little more off the top of the pot and scatteres the coins around hence we have the saying a 'scattered pot hoard'
Will we ever find the main location i cannot answer that one we of course live in hope and thats the fasination of this great hobby of ours,and i have to say we over here in the UK take it so much for granted and we are so very lucky that our history goes back 1000s of years and the quality and the wide ranging coins and artifact is truelly amazing but its only the fact that modern metal detectors are able to find and locate these wonderful works of craftmenship so that everyone can enjoy them for the future other wise they still would be in the ground.
Regards from the UK
Rick
Please note this is not mine as i have it one another pc that i dont have access to it over the weekend but it will give you some idea on what they look like.
It's a Whaddon Chase stater, struck by the Catuvellauni tribe c.55-45 BC. The Catuvellauni, 'men good in battle', were one of the two main north-Thames tribes, concentrated in Hertfordshire and including parts of seven surrounding counties. They were probably the most powerful tribe in Britain when their king, Cassivellaunos, commanded the British coalition against Caesar in 54BC. Mint-sites at their capital, Verlamio (St Albans), and maybe Braughing.
What is interesting about this coin is the farm that we had been detecting on has produced about 15 of these exact coins within a 50ft radius this amount in such a small area indicates only one thing a hoard,but we have been back a few times and found a few more in the same location but as yet we cannot find the main source of them,with so many high quality gold coins in close proximity usually indicates 2 possible theories either a purse drop or a hoard in say a pot or some other container but in the 1st option you would usually find what we call the metal purse bars that held the leather purse to the owners belt as the leather would have rotted over time and hence this is why we suspect the hoard being in a non metalic pot ie a ceramic pot.
So after the crops come off later in a few months time it will be back again to the same farm and see if his deep ploughing has shifted some more,the farmer has a US Cat tracked tractor that has massive amounts of power hence he can plough so much deeper and with each new ploughing he takes a little more off the top of the pot and scatteres the coins around hence we have the saying a 'scattered pot hoard'
Will we ever find the main location i cannot answer that one we of course live in hope and thats the fasination of this great hobby of ours,and i have to say we over here in the UK take it so much for granted and we are so very lucky that our history goes back 1000s of years and the quality and the wide ranging coins and artifact is truelly amazing but its only the fact that modern metal detectors are able to find and locate these wonderful works of craftmenship so that everyone can enjoy them for the future other wise they still would be in the ground.
Regards from the UK
Rick
Ed in SoDak
Member
My favorite T2 find is not as historical as the others and was a super-easy find at only about 6 inches deep. It's a hand-forged device probably used to join two ropes or perhaps chains together and tension them a little. It's a little over 6 inches long. And it still works! Two views are shown, in one view it's open and closed in the other.
Just below it in the same hole was another large iron signal which ended up being an almost unused pick head, in perfect shape except for the rust. The hole was lot wider after extracting the pick head. Did I mention it was an easy find? LOL
I'd date the items to around the 1930's when the Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the area, plus a lot of Depression-era mining was going on. I could be wrong on that, but it's a pretty good guess.
-Ed
Just below it in the same hole was another large iron signal which ended up being an almost unused pick head, in perfect shape except for the rust. The hole was lot wider after extracting the pick head. Did I mention it was an easy find? LOL
I'd date the items to around the 1930's when the Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the area, plus a lot of Depression-era mining was going on. I could be wrong on that, but it's a pretty good guess.
-Ed
dirt doctor
Well-known member
January while hunting with my T2 I found a girls white gold class ring at a local baseball field it was on a silver chain. It was just under the grass in the root system .It was a nearby school so with a little detective work it was easy to find this person on the internet .A call was made to a very surprised owner and arrangements were made for father+daughter to come over that very evening and pick up the ring .A very grateful Dad presented me with a very nice bottle of wine . The ring had been lost August of 2011 by the Dad while hurridly placing it in a knapsack for safe keeping prior to a Baseball game . The young lady was very happy as she would have it for her graduation as was her Dad . He said the timing was incredible as within a few days he was going to be ordering a replacement .The girl couldn't believe the ring was still on the chain and unharmed . That's the young lady and her Dad in the picture .They were very nice people and it was a rewarding experience for all involved . That was my best T2 find .
dirt doctor
Well-known member
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rob
Member
My story starts with a hunting buddy of mine ask me to hunt a small area of about 12' X 12' Civil War activity area he pounded with his Minelab SE a week earlier. He said he found a bullet there and could not produce another one so he wanted to see what I could do with the T2. I was not really running it all that hot, 80% in the disc mode, single tone and produced 6 really nice .50 cal bullets all between 10" and foot in about 10 minutes. They were really a bit better than a whisper. I know Minelabs are very nice units and not here to bash them (even got a modded XS) but needless to say, my buddy had a T2 in his living room 4 days later.