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12-31-2017, 01:25 PM
Well the brutal temps and snow are upon us here in New England and my season is finally at an end but I had two decent outings (Dec. 21st and Dec. 30th) before the year !:cheering:
Thursday the 21st Heavymetalnut and Donnie B. drove out to the far side of the state and hit a couple of cellar sites , this where Donnie recovered his Rev. war era waist buckle (Great find by the way Donnie :clapping:) and I scoffed up an 1833 large cent 6266162662 , but unfortunately the site was very depleted of goodies and it took hours of searching to come up with this one coin . We moved onto a site that Dave had remembered to having been there before and told us it was very quiet with little to find :shocked05:! WTG Dave put us in a discouraging mood from the get go !:yes: Unfortunately he was right but we were running out of daylight (as the days are much shorter this time of year) so we spent the last hour or two . I did get a very scratchy tone in the road and noticed that some one in the past opened up a small hole , I see this pretty common at cellar sites . other people hear a good or iffy target and dig down and see its iron or realize its too big to retrieve , maybe they are just lazy when its an iron target ?:dontknow: All I know is I hear iron but to me on my machine it was like there may have been something non ferrous mixed or very close to it :yes: My method from there is to isolate the iron or the larger target and remove it from the picture , I dug the iron and reswept the hole and I hear a nice sweet tone :grin: and pull out a silver thimble :smitten:. 62663 Thank you very much , lazy or very inexperienced detectorist ! :lol:
Yesterday Dec. 30th was a cold one 4 degrees in the morning , about 2 inches of snow already on the ground with another inch forecasted to come down :frozen: Heavymetalnut was almost an hour late :ticked: , boy did he hear about it while we were waiting in the cold for him :rofl: Donnie and two guests (Rick and Ron Y.) all headed out in the artic barren 62664in search of some colonial "treasure" :lol:.
Our first stop was a an odd site and we were unsure of its authenticity of being a cellar so we dropped coils for about 20 minutes ! Ron got a copper coin after about 15 minutes , a while later his brother Rick found a decent colonial neck stock buckle and we knew we had a cellar hole . ;) The finds were sparse for the next few hours but I managed a broken shoe buckle and a gold Victorian cufflink 62665:bananadance::cheering::loveit: ! Dave and the Yingling Bros. had to leave early and it was so cold I really couldn't blame them one bit :lol: Donnie and I found another site 62666and that where I got an older type crotal bell , thimble and a tiny shoe buckle 62667and I believe its and oldie too . By this time it was getting late , the snow was coming down good and the temps dropped considerably :yes:.
I believe the shoe buckle is a 1690 to 1720 type based on the size and style as its very similar to the silver one I found a few years ago on the right 62668making that last site a very old one and good reason to go back and see what else it around .
Thank for reading !
Dan
Thursday the 21st Heavymetalnut and Donnie B. drove out to the far side of the state and hit a couple of cellar sites , this where Donnie recovered his Rev. war era waist buckle (Great find by the way Donnie :clapping:) and I scoffed up an 1833 large cent 6266162662 , but unfortunately the site was very depleted of goodies and it took hours of searching to come up with this one coin . We moved onto a site that Dave had remembered to having been there before and told us it was very quiet with little to find :shocked05:! WTG Dave put us in a discouraging mood from the get go !:yes: Unfortunately he was right but we were running out of daylight (as the days are much shorter this time of year) so we spent the last hour or two . I did get a very scratchy tone in the road and noticed that some one in the past opened up a small hole , I see this pretty common at cellar sites . other people hear a good or iffy target and dig down and see its iron or realize its too big to retrieve , maybe they are just lazy when its an iron target ?:dontknow: All I know is I hear iron but to me on my machine it was like there may have been something non ferrous mixed or very close to it :yes: My method from there is to isolate the iron or the larger target and remove it from the picture , I dug the iron and reswept the hole and I hear a nice sweet tone :grin: and pull out a silver thimble :smitten:. 62663 Thank you very much , lazy or very inexperienced detectorist ! :lol:
Yesterday Dec. 30th was a cold one 4 degrees in the morning , about 2 inches of snow already on the ground with another inch forecasted to come down :frozen: Heavymetalnut was almost an hour late :ticked: , boy did he hear about it while we were waiting in the cold for him :rofl: Donnie and two guests (Rick and Ron Y.) all headed out in the artic barren 62664in search of some colonial "treasure" :lol:.
Our first stop was a an odd site and we were unsure of its authenticity of being a cellar so we dropped coils for about 20 minutes ! Ron got a copper coin after about 15 minutes , a while later his brother Rick found a decent colonial neck stock buckle and we knew we had a cellar hole . ;) The finds were sparse for the next few hours but I managed a broken shoe buckle and a gold Victorian cufflink 62665:bananadance::cheering::loveit: ! Dave and the Yingling Bros. had to leave early and it was so cold I really couldn't blame them one bit :lol: Donnie and I found another site 62666and that where I got an older type crotal bell , thimble and a tiny shoe buckle 62667and I believe its and oldie too . By this time it was getting late , the snow was coming down good and the temps dropped considerably :yes:.
I believe the shoe buckle is a 1690 to 1720 type based on the size and style as its very similar to the silver one I found a few years ago on the right 62668making that last site a very old one and good reason to go back and see what else it around .
Thank for reading !
Dan