C&RHunter
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I have just added an XP Deus to my Minelab arsenal and thought I better hit an old cabin site in my brother's woods. I used the Equinox there in early March, but decided to hit the site again with my new Deus, before the brush takes over for the summer. So yesterday, I returned to the cabin site . The site has many ferrous targets, and in particular, a heavy blanket of square nails over a fairly large area. Things went as I expected with the new machine. I dug more iron than I would like, but I had expected that. (I dug many more pieces of square nails than are in the picture below). But, at the end of the afternoon, I was satisfied with my results for the day. I was pretty much working an area loaded with the low tone of the nails, hoping to find something intermixed with them. It did finally pay off, as I recovered a lightweight brass buckle of some kind, three General Service military buttons, two of which are cuff buttons. The largest of the three buttons doesn't have a backmark but the two cuff buttons do. One cuff button is backmarked Scovills & Co Extra and the other cuff button is backmarked Extra Quality. I am still hoping to find those elusive coins, that "just have to be there someplace".
