Thiltzy
05-18-2014, 08:02 PM
Met up with my friend Tom this morning at 8:00 am. The plan was to go in search of a cellar hole on some private property that I have permission to hunt. Dave and I did really well on this property last year and I was wanting to go back and find other cellar holes on this huge piece of property. The good news is that we did find another cellar hole exactly where I marked it on my gps. It was another old site but it seems someone beat me to the punch on this particular site. Between the two of us we only pulled 4 buttons and some bullets:bummer:
Tom had to meet his wife at 1:00pm so I decided to hit another site that Dave and I had hit in the past. This is a gorgeous site deep in the woods with tons of swinging area however, we only pulled one beat up copper and a few buttons here last year. I always wanted to go back there because it's such a huge homestead site and I always thought that there is too much area not to have other targets. For three hours I swung my coil in all the obvious places and I did not get one repeatable target other than iron.:thinkingabout: I decided to think outside the box and headed for some of the breaks in the wall on the south side of the old road that ran past the front of the cellar hole. This area was a little swampy but did have the looks as if there could have been fields back then. A few steps later, I got my first target of the day here and it sounded really good. When I pulled out the plug, I saw a green disk but when I picked it up, there were two coppers stuck together. An 1800 Draped Bust and another Connecticut Copper were looking me in the face as I pulled one off of the other. The two obverse sides were stuck together and preserved one another very nicely. I haven't cleaned them yet but I can't see any corrosion on the obverse sides.
I then made my way to the second break in the wall and got another copper but this one was in the condition I anticipated due to the swampy area. It looks like a Matron or coronet and is almost completely destroyed. My only three repeatable targets here and all turned up as coppers:groovy:
Tom had to meet his wife at 1:00pm so I decided to hit another site that Dave and I had hit in the past. This is a gorgeous site deep in the woods with tons of swinging area however, we only pulled one beat up copper and a few buttons here last year. I always wanted to go back there because it's such a huge homestead site and I always thought that there is too much area not to have other targets. For three hours I swung my coil in all the obvious places and I did not get one repeatable target other than iron.:thinkingabout: I decided to think outside the box and headed for some of the breaks in the wall on the south side of the old road that ran past the front of the cellar hole. This area was a little swampy but did have the looks as if there could have been fields back then. A few steps later, I got my first target of the day here and it sounded really good. When I pulled out the plug, I saw a green disk but when I picked it up, there were two coppers stuck together. An 1800 Draped Bust and another Connecticut Copper were looking me in the face as I pulled one off of the other. The two obverse sides were stuck together and preserved one another very nicely. I haven't cleaned them yet but I can't see any corrosion on the obverse sides.
I then made my way to the second break in the wall and got another copper but this one was in the condition I anticipated due to the swampy area. It looks like a Matron or coronet and is almost completely destroyed. My only three repeatable targets here and all turned up as coppers:groovy: