Beautiful Saturday morning to be out detecting. Didn’t come up with anything too spectacular but did manage to pop out a Civil War General Service Eagle in pretty good shape.
I had just finished building an 1850-1860’s map for my area as there are none and wanted to test it out. I picked a section and decided to hunt all over it until I found a site that was potentially the early 1850s site.
I did find a site on the property that had evidence of newer occupation into the 1930s but it did also have the Civil War button as well as the lead pistol ball, so I’m counting that as a win as far as finding the old site. Lol
-No visible backmark on the Eagle button
-1889 on one Indian Head Cent
-Who knows on the second Indian
-1919 on the Wheat
-Somewhat local trade token
-Cool Des Moines overall style button
-1871 Patent date on the nearly decorated suspender clip
-The “Good Luck symboled” compact lid or whatever is the second I have found, both coming on sites that also had civil war activity. Not sure if there is a correlation or not there but interesting regardless.
Definitely more there to detect, the older stuff just being covered up some.
Thanks for looking!
I had just finished building an 1850-1860’s map for my area as there are none and wanted to test it out. I picked a section and decided to hunt all over it until I found a site that was potentially the early 1850s site.
I did find a site on the property that had evidence of newer occupation into the 1930s but it did also have the Civil War button as well as the lead pistol ball, so I’m counting that as a win as far as finding the old site. Lol
-No visible backmark on the Eagle button
-1889 on one Indian Head Cent
-Who knows on the second Indian
-1919 on the Wheat
-Somewhat local trade token
-Cool Des Moines overall style button
-1871 Patent date on the nearly decorated suspender clip
-The “Good Luck symboled” compact lid or whatever is the second I have found, both coming on sites that also had civil war activity. Not sure if there is a correlation or not there but interesting regardless.
Definitely more there to detect, the older stuff just being covered up some.
Thanks for looking!
