SteveP(NH)
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Well looks like my F75 is hung on the wall until the spring melt so here is my best find of 2010 using the F75...
I went out detecting with two good buddies in Marlborough NH last April. It was one of the first really gorgeous days of spring up here and so it was fantastic to get out just for the fine, warm weather after a long New England winter. We were detecting a small triangular area (say about 1/2 acre) that was formed where a colonial road and a more modern one crossed. The old colonial road is now a driveway on private land (we had permission from the land owner). There is a rock wall running along the property boundary between the modern road and the private land with the colonial road/driveway on it and apparently people used to dump their trash along the rock wall. There was a lots of iron but some nice targets too. I was hunting in 2F audio and DE process with the discrim at 5 and was getting lots of iron hits when I got a little peep from a target that turned out to read in the low 60's on the target ID. So I dug up 16 pieces of iron and a cap plate out of the same hole - talk about great iron see thru - the F75 definitely has that. The cap plate was from a circa 1840 New Hampshire Volunteer Militia uniform cap. Here is some other info I found about it.
The Cap Plate is listed on Page 293 of American Military Headgear Insignia by J. Duncan Campbell and Michael J. O'Donnell as Figure 666 where it is described as:
Cap Plate, Volunteer Militia, New Hampshire, ca. 1840-1845. The ship portrayed below the Eagle on the Cap Plate is actually under construction and is taken directly from the New Hampshire state seal.
The description also indicates that in 1846 a group of 25 of these Volunteer Militia left Exeter, New Hampshire for service in the Mexican War. So what was your best single find this year?
I went out detecting with two good buddies in Marlborough NH last April. It was one of the first really gorgeous days of spring up here and so it was fantastic to get out just for the fine, warm weather after a long New England winter. We were detecting a small triangular area (say about 1/2 acre) that was formed where a colonial road and a more modern one crossed. The old colonial road is now a driveway on private land (we had permission from the land owner). There is a rock wall running along the property boundary between the modern road and the private land with the colonial road/driveway on it and apparently people used to dump their trash along the rock wall. There was a lots of iron but some nice targets too. I was hunting in 2F audio and DE process with the discrim at 5 and was getting lots of iron hits when I got a little peep from a target that turned out to read in the low 60's on the target ID. So I dug up 16 pieces of iron and a cap plate out of the same hole - talk about great iron see thru - the F75 definitely has that. The cap plate was from a circa 1840 New Hampshire Volunteer Militia uniform cap. Here is some other info I found about it.
The Cap Plate is listed on Page 293 of American Military Headgear Insignia by J. Duncan Campbell and Michael J. O'Donnell as Figure 666 where it is described as:
Cap Plate, Volunteer Militia, New Hampshire, ca. 1840-1845. The ship portrayed below the Eagle on the Cap Plate is actually under construction and is taken directly from the New Hampshire state seal.
The description also indicates that in 1846 a group of 25 of these Volunteer Militia left Exeter, New Hampshire for service in the Mexican War. So what was your best single find this year?