no, I found me a plate!

[-=john=-LexKy]

Hi all! hope your digs have been good ones. I have had several digs, all minor but no complaints. It has been unusually warm here in the middle. The other day it was a 35 mph wind and no one would go digging. The sky looked great at dawn. I had full permission ...time to head out.
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I was working a hay field that covered hundreds of acres. Looking for the lost camp, the lost treasure!
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Not a soul in sight, the ground was damp and the signals going a foot deep. I was in sight of a house and spring almost 200 yrs old. Shotgun shells.

And then wouldn't you know it I got a solid signal like a beer can or belt plate. But it wasn't shallow and there was almost no trash in this field. I dug down about a foot. . . . . .

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My knees went weak as a shot of adrenaline jolted through me at the sight of a brass oval plate of some kind !!! Looks like a box plate .... or perhaps a CS Breckinridge!

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Ratz! It's a plate from the 68th Regiment of Foot (4 feet), I think the Bovine Corps. argh


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Oh well, at least it was a virgin site .

hh

-=john=-


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[Bob Szabo]

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[Tony (NC)]

I swallowed it....Hook, Line and Sinker!

 

[Mark in NC]

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[Bill Ladd]

I like that Great pics John.......had me going too

 

[Bavaria Mike]

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