Relic find with T2, Union Artillery cuff button - :beers:

[Mark652]

I have not been seeing many posts here recently, I hope it means folks are on vacation or too busy out in the field with their T2s to take time to post. So I am leaving this one. I was out last weekend at a site a couple of friends and I have been working for over two years. It was an encampment for a brief period of time in 1861. The finds are getting harder, but we are still making them. I found two flat buttons and a couple of nice drops, but the find of the day for me was this nice officer's artillery cuff button. The picture dos not do it justice, the flat areas still show gold gilt, which is extremely unusual for the area we are hunting. Most of the cuff buttons we have found have been badly corroded, some to the point they crumbled when touched. So this was a real treat. I found it at about 5 inches searching in all metal mode. The signal bounced between 62 and 79, but the tone (I was running in Tone 1) was clear and crisp and that prompted my digging the signal. Cheers,

 

[morelic55]

Excellent Find!!! About 4 monts ago I was in the same kind of area and dug a Eagle Cuff at 10" I was in all metal also, man the T2 goes deep!!!

 

[Mark652]

I can well imagine how you felt, I love it when a Civil War button or bullet drop or old coin comes out of a hole. The T2 is great identifying these targets and the depth, as you said, is fantastic. About 3 months ago I found a silver half dime, 1837, in the same area. It was 6" down and the signal was faint, but it was solid and consistent, so I dug it. The coin looked like it fell out of someone's pocket the day before. My T2 is the best detector I have ever had, very reliable and very accurate.