Last nights excellent hunt....

[WessThompson]

I hit a site I have done quite a few times and have pulled some great finds from in the past...and wow did I have some serious success. Signals are few and far between. This place is LOADED with old square nails and iron. I decided to creep through the iron. I find I often get high toned chirps from square nails and iron with my Explorer. I decided if I got any sort of coin sound...be it a quick iron chirp...even one way... I would dig it as I know finds from 6" plus here are old. I believe the place was in a fire. When I dig down 5" plus the ground is thick with red brick, ceramics, ash, glass, you name it.

Well, this method worked. In my first hole, I removed SIX square nails...once I took these out of the hole, wouldn't you know it. Three coins in one hole!!

I repeated this procedure for an hour and a half. In an area smaller than 10 feet square.

My second hole I got 4 square nails...and 2 coins.

My third hole....several square nails and iron pieces...a spoon fragment, and yes...ONE coin.

My next hole...again more square nails, a knife blade, piece of lead, 1 coin, and a military button.

I only dug 3 holes that turned out to be iron falsing....with no coin in the hole. I was spending about 20 mins per hole *haha* I wish I could sift this site!!!

So...I walked away with an 1831 U.S. Large Cent with holes drilled in it. An 1832 half penny token. An 1837 Un Sou token

Also a bunch of George II, III or other *hah* 1700's anyhow. The oldest being 1722

Also found this military button...I can see a crown and leaves around the border...nothing more

Thanks for looking

Wess

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[John M (Ct)]

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[James in Alabama]

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[floydandtina]

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[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

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[WessThompson]

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[WessThompson]

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[WessThompson]

gonna try it again tonight!

 

[WessThompson]

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[WessThompson]

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[WessThompson]

when are we all going to get out for a hunt??

Hmmm...could be thistles. Hard to tell. They do start at the bottom and go all the way up to mid crown. Looks like a bow in the bottom center...and maybe something else there?!

You know how those damn pewter buttons hold up

Has an iron shank...looks 1812 or earlier...ohhh...cuff button too

 

[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

Rich and I got together with his Mom last week but we didn't get a lot. He did well on musket balls. I don't know, not much open in the way of fields around here. Conchita comes back from the Philippines tomorrow. We have 8 new spots picked out for the fall and should be able to find more by then. She's really looking forward to learning to detect.

 

[Craig in Alabama]

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[Keith IL]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[therick]

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[WessThompson]

it will be nice when the fields open up that's for sure.
I forgot Conchita was getting into detecting. You lucky man! *haha* I ahve tried to nudge my wife into the hobby...but it's not happening

Did you buy some new machines?

 

[WessThompson]

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