BTV Digger
05-21-2018, 06:35 PM
Hi folks,
Here's my finds from the past week - 2 hunts - 1 solo last Monday and a combo dig with my good friends Joe and Dan from Green Mountain Diggers yesterday. I got the 1930s era Mickey Mouse spoon, a '34 wheat and some marbles from a permission field I hadn't hit yet. Lots of overwhelming iron and few targets so moved back to my virgin site #2 I found a few weeks back just down the road. Hit that for a few hours and found a '34 Matron LC and plenty of buttons (no military this time). Those hunts were both last Monday. Yesterday Joe, Dan and I returned to that site and tore it up once more. We dug 6 more LCs (I got three) and other doo dads including a nice Jew Harp found by Joe and a Warranted Superior saw medallion that I found basically on the surface. My LCs included a worn '16 first date Matron, a holed and very worn 1810 Classic Head and a no-date KG 2. The hand shot at bottom shows the combined LCs we found on that hunt yesterday. This makes 15 coppers, a half reale and about 60 buttons so far from this field and it's got lots more to give up. We were still getting tons of targets in a new area and it looks as if there's another unmapped site in this field about 300 yards away. :cheesysmile: The farmer stopped by at that point and politely asked us to leave as they were getting ready to row and seed. Really nice guy, but ugh, bad timing. :( I'll have to wait until October now before I return and the corn is cut, though in a positive sense it's something to definitely look forward to! Thanks for looking.
John
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Here's my finds from the past week - 2 hunts - 1 solo last Monday and a combo dig with my good friends Joe and Dan from Green Mountain Diggers yesterday. I got the 1930s era Mickey Mouse spoon, a '34 wheat and some marbles from a permission field I hadn't hit yet. Lots of overwhelming iron and few targets so moved back to my virgin site #2 I found a few weeks back just down the road. Hit that for a few hours and found a '34 Matron LC and plenty of buttons (no military this time). Those hunts were both last Monday. Yesterday Joe, Dan and I returned to that site and tore it up once more. We dug 6 more LCs (I got three) and other doo dads including a nice Jew Harp found by Joe and a Warranted Superior saw medallion that I found basically on the surface. My LCs included a worn '16 first date Matron, a holed and very worn 1810 Classic Head and a no-date KG 2. The hand shot at bottom shows the combined LCs we found on that hunt yesterday. This makes 15 coppers, a half reale and about 60 buttons so far from this field and it's got lots more to give up. We were still getting tons of targets in a new area and it looks as if there's another unmapped site in this field about 300 yards away. :cheesysmile: The farmer stopped by at that point and politely asked us to leave as they were getting ready to row and seed. Really nice guy, but ugh, bad timing. :( I'll have to wait until October now before I return and the corn is cut, though in a positive sense it's something to definitely look forward to! Thanks for looking.
John
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