RIdirtdigger
05-14-2016, 06:04 PM
What an amazing two days it has been. Yesterday I headed into CT to try out a few sites I thought had potential. The first site was deep in the woods far away from any trails, or places where people would go. Slow start but after 5 minutes the targets started picking up. After digging a thimble and a dandy button I get a very low tone on the lip of the cellar hole underneath a massive rock almost ringing up as foil. I decide to dig it anyway. After about 5 minutes I get the target and it turns out to be a big old square nail. I recheck the hole and now I get a nice midtone in the dirt I had dug. I then locate my signal, a nice big dandy button. I take a closer look and I say to myself "is than an eagle?" Then I see the Eagles face and the star above and I knew exactly what I had. My FIRST EVER GW BUTTON!!!!! I was so stoked and happy I spent the next 10 minutes celebrating my find. I've dug so many dandy buttons and finally I get the one I've been waiting for. I am officially a member of the club. After the GW my coil got really hot and I pulled out another first, a complete colonial pewter spoon. Nice rat tail which I really like. That was only about 2 feet away from the GW. After that it was buttons galore, mostly dandy buttons with amazing designs. Got one coin, a nice 1787 CT copper. I left after one hour so I could come back the next day with Jarrod and do a proper pounding. We met up early this morning and headed out. It's been a while since I had seen him this excited. I brought some clippers with me because there is a lot of barberry around the lip and I knew there were signals hiding in it. Right away we start getting targets. We both got high tones at the same time mine being a nice thin shoe buckle frame and his being his first ever CT copper. The coin was laying flat right on a rock next to the well. Never even got deeper than 2 inches. A little while later I scored another shoe buckle frame and Jarrod dug his 2nd CT copper of the day. I then scored some more buttons and a nice (nearly) complete knee buckle. We decided to break out the clippers and we spent the next 20 minutes clearing out some of the barberry. As soon as I turn the machine on in the area we trimmed I get a solid high tone right on the lip. I knew it was going to be a copper and it was. It was also a good one being a very worn 1697 William III halfpenny. I'm suprised the date held up so well cause everything else is almost completely worn out. We both found some more relics and buttons after that but it was am incredible two days at an incredible rare Virgin cellar hole. What's probably the strangest is I did not dig a single shot gun shell at this site and only a few bullets. Goes to show you how little human activity this place has seen since it was abandoned. Overall, happy hunting and we will be returning to this site in the late fall once the vegetation is gone to pick up where we left off in the barberry.