RIdirtdigger
03-01-2016, 05:34 PM
What a great weekend of detecting. I was on the road early on Saturday morning and headed up to the Northern Part of the State to hit a few colonial cellar holes. A little chilly walking in but it warmed up quickly. As soon as I got to the cellar hole I knew it was an oldie, the foundation was completely caved in living just a depression with some rocks inside of it. Probably pretty poor as well. I head over to the lip and starting swinging around, iron signals everywhere. A minute later I get a high tone and even before I dug it I knew it was gonna be a copper. What I did not know was that it was going to be a bucket list find. It was my first ever Mass Copper!!! Not in that bad a shape either. 5 minutes into the day and I already had found my best copper yet. Funny thing is that was all I got there. Not a lot of swinging room (lots of brush) so I'm not sure what was up with the lack of targets other than the copper. Probably just a poor site. I moved on to a different site I wanted to check out and see if it was worth bringing Isaac to when he comes to CT from Va during his vacation. Well I'm glad I checked the site out, cause it would have been a tough outing. Site was totally pounded, in fact a previous detectorist planted two memorials pennies, a bottle cap, and a pull tab all next to each other on the cellar hole lip. The jokes on him though cause he missed a very ornate knee buckle (with iron pins) on the opposite side of the lip as well. The Mass copper and knee buckle ended up being my only good finds of the day but I was not complaining. Sunday I was supposed to go to CT with Jarrod but he had car troubles and had to cancel. I felt bad, he was looking forward all week to getting out. So, I decided to head over into CT myself, albeit a different location then we had planned to go. Long hike in the woods and after searching around for a bit I finally found the cellar hole I was looking for. Right away I noticed dig holes and a big piece of iron lying on the lip but that didn't discourage me. Right away I start popping out buttons, I had 3 within 5 minutes and ended up with 10 total on the day. The lone high tone turned out to be an ox knob, and I also recovered a thimble and some other odds and ends. I found my first ever pipe stem, it was in the whole with a piece of iron. Pretty happy about that. All the finds were within 100 feet of the cellar hole, so whoever detected before me didn't do a thorough enough job. Happy hunting everyone.