The snow was mostly gone, temps above freezing so I got in a hunt yesterday morning and the first isolated cellar hole I hit only produced a plain flat no back marked button and some lead and pewter pieces. This site has yet to produce a colonial coin, but has given up musket trigger guard, some 1700 era buttons and a neat 18th century cuff link with a Sailing Ship on it, so I keep going back in hopes of a old coin, but not to be I guess. So I walked onto the next cellar hole up the dirt road and this site has produced some great relics and colonials and early American coppers in the past.
I did not have much time so I decided to hit the iron field, where with no discrimination it is a constant rat a tat tat of iron hits, so I tried lowering the Sensitivity on the SE to 12 and see if going super slow I could pick any good readings out, and I have hit this area many times before. Well, it did pay off, I got a pewter spoon piece, a broken pewter wing like pin? and finally the find of the day, TALLIO cuff links! Now the cuff links were special, since first of all they are neat to look at, but this is the second set I have found at this cellar hole, so now I have the complete two pairs of them. Even though no old coins or any great amount of finds, it was nice to get out, get a couple mile walk in and getting a few relics to boot made a nice morning!
Oh, there was a down side, as I was preparing to leave I reached down for my cell phone that is attached to my belt, and NOPE, missing. AGH! I also knew the battery was down to 1 click and hopes of finding it later than sooner was bleak. So, I just gave a quick look at the last few places I dug, in hopes it fell out while bending down , but did not see it, so I hoofed it back to the truck ASAP, a 15 minute brisk walk, drove the 20 minute drive home, told the wife I needed her phone to call and find my phone, of course she said "why did you not call from the woods, I could have brought my phone to you" DUH!!
Anyway, she came with me, the 15 minute walk for me was a 25 minute walk with her, but at least I got her in the woods for some fresh air. When we got to the last cellar hole where I found the cuff links, she called my number and the beautiful sound of the phone was ringing away, about 25 yards from where we were standing, so all is well that ends well, phone retrieved......................
The TALLIO cuff links are found, but one thing noticed by me and others, some say TALLIO, like my 4 , some say TALLYO and I have heard on one saying TALLYHO, now that is interesting that there are differences like that.
I do plan on going back to the high iron area, with the 8 inch coil and low sensitivity setting in the future and see if I can pick out anything else in the iron mine field.......... Don
I did not have much time so I decided to hit the iron field, where with no discrimination it is a constant rat a tat tat of iron hits, so I tried lowering the Sensitivity on the SE to 12 and see if going super slow I could pick any good readings out, and I have hit this area many times before. Well, it did pay off, I got a pewter spoon piece, a broken pewter wing like pin? and finally the find of the day, TALLIO cuff links! Now the cuff links were special, since first of all they are neat to look at, but this is the second set I have found at this cellar hole, so now I have the complete two pairs of them. Even though no old coins or any great amount of finds, it was nice to get out, get a couple mile walk in and getting a few relics to boot made a nice morning!
Oh, there was a down side, as I was preparing to leave I reached down for my cell phone that is attached to my belt, and NOPE, missing. AGH! I also knew the battery was down to 1 click and hopes of finding it later than sooner was bleak. So, I just gave a quick look at the last few places I dug, in hopes it fell out while bending down , but did not see it, so I hoofed it back to the truck ASAP, a 15 minute brisk walk, drove the 20 minute drive home, told the wife I needed her phone to call and find my phone, of course she said "why did you not call from the woods, I could have brought my phone to you" DUH!!
Anyway, she came with me, the 15 minute walk for me was a 25 minute walk with her, but at least I got her in the woods for some fresh air. When we got to the last cellar hole where I found the cuff links, she called my number and the beautiful sound of the phone was ringing away, about 25 yards from where we were standing, so all is well that ends well, phone retrieved......................The TALLIO cuff links are found, but one thing noticed by me and others, some say TALLIO, like my 4 , some say TALLYO and I have heard on one saying TALLYHO, now that is interesting that there are differences like that.
I do plan on going back to the high iron area, with the 8 inch coil and low sensitivity setting in the future and see if I can pick out anything else in the iron mine field.......... Don
