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03-13-2016, 11:12 AM
Well Yesterday was an absolutely beautiful spring day for :detecting: here in Connecticut . My digging partner Trooper Bri and I decided to search for a new site , then to hit a nearby follow up hunt on one we did a couple of weeks ago . This new site was in an unlikely spot down a large hill near a couple of converging streams , sitting on an overlooking small knoll. it was a very secluded and nice looking area .
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/4535921b-3910-4dd6-a2dd-1eb9cdd86038_zpsyvjoph0z.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/4535921b-3910-4dd6-a2dd-1eb9cdd86038_zpsyvjoph0z.jpg.html)
right off the bat my DFX was hitting on buttons , I just got the machine back from a "tune up" from whites and it was preforming very noticeably different.
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/huge%20dandy_zpsyu2trtva.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/huge%20dandy_zpsyu2trtva.jpg.html)
One was a huge dandy with design :happydance01:
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/designed%20button_zpsa8chcm3m.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/designed%20button_zpsa8chcm3m.jpg.html)
Another was a bit smaller :thumbsup02:and most of the others were plain. After a few hours I had about 10 or more buttons and the analysis to this site was it had been "cherry picked" . Someone at some time detected here and took all the high vdi targets and left the lower (shot gun sounding) ones. :girlcry:
So we hit a nearby site that ha given Brian a latten spoon and a 1722 hibernia copper a couple of weeks ago . this site has tons of swing room but is very quiet (its been hit before too) . I managed to get a few buttons and a decent leather "blinker" ( a brass adornment fastened to a saddle , reigns or even a shoulder belt) but my find of the day here was and early copper .
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/68ae800e-f271-4b6f-a47e-56ca8b31a90d_zpsnhbyw9lb.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/68ae800e-f271-4b6f-a47e-56ca8b31a90d_zpsnhbyw9lb.jpg.html)
Its a 1723 "Wood's" Hibernia ( King George Ist Irish half Penny)
We stopped at a last minute cellar for about an hour and a half to net me about another 10 buttons or more and I finished the day with a nice tally of about 25 buttons .
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/march%2012th%20finds_zpsdrr6eids.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/march%2012th%20finds_zpsdrr6eids.jpg.html)
Thanks for looking .
Dan
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/4535921b-3910-4dd6-a2dd-1eb9cdd86038_zpsyvjoph0z.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/4535921b-3910-4dd6-a2dd-1eb9cdd86038_zpsyvjoph0z.jpg.html)
right off the bat my DFX was hitting on buttons , I just got the machine back from a "tune up" from whites and it was preforming very noticeably different.
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/huge%20dandy_zpsyu2trtva.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/huge%20dandy_zpsyu2trtva.jpg.html)
One was a huge dandy with design :happydance01:
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/designed%20button_zpsa8chcm3m.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/designed%20button_zpsa8chcm3m.jpg.html)
Another was a bit smaller :thumbsup02:and most of the others were plain. After a few hours I had about 10 or more buttons and the analysis to this site was it had been "cherry picked" . Someone at some time detected here and took all the high vdi targets and left the lower (shot gun sounding) ones. :girlcry:
So we hit a nearby site that ha given Brian a latten spoon and a 1722 hibernia copper a couple of weeks ago . this site has tons of swing room but is very quiet (its been hit before too) . I managed to get a few buttons and a decent leather "blinker" ( a brass adornment fastened to a saddle , reigns or even a shoulder belt) but my find of the day here was and early copper .
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/68ae800e-f271-4b6f-a47e-56ca8b31a90d_zpsnhbyw9lb.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/68ae800e-f271-4b6f-a47e-56ca8b31a90d_zpsnhbyw9lb.jpg.html)
Its a 1723 "Wood's" Hibernia ( King George Ist Irish half Penny)
We stopped at a last minute cellar for about an hour and a half to net me about another 10 buttons or more and I finished the day with a nice tally of about 25 buttons .
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/del1786/2016/march%2012th%20finds_zpsdrr6eids.jpg (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/del1786/media/2016/march%2012th%20finds_zpsdrr6eids.jpg.html)
Thanks for looking .
Dan