BTV Digger
04-07-2019, 05:46 PM
Hi all,
Got a permission from a nearby farm only 5 minutes from my work and about 10 from home. Have long wanted to try this field but it lies along the river and was wondering whether years of silt build-up etc. would limit my finds. There are two sites in this field and the friendly farmer told me it had been detected a few times over the years - not surprising seeing it's literally right here in town. The sites are nearly a half mile apart and the farm road was really mucky so I had to walk, not drive all the way out there which took 20 minutes. True to expectations finds were rather limited but as you know you never can find everything! First site was the oldest and I found the two really nice plain tombacs there. Also pulled a really nice bone handled fork. I have no idea how to date forks so experts chime in. I'm thinking early to mid 1800s but that's just a guess. Second site was a bit newer - mid 1800s to around the turn of the century. Loads and loads of dense trash in the ground here so I moved to the edge of the iron field since I only had my large coil on the AT-Pro. In what I imagined as the front yard I pulled one of my best Braided Hair LCs and few more plain-Jane buttons. All and all not too bad for a 2 hour hunt after work. Thanks for reading and taking a quick look!
John
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Got a permission from a nearby farm only 5 minutes from my work and about 10 from home. Have long wanted to try this field but it lies along the river and was wondering whether years of silt build-up etc. would limit my finds. There are two sites in this field and the friendly farmer told me it had been detected a few times over the years - not surprising seeing it's literally right here in town. The sites are nearly a half mile apart and the farm road was really mucky so I had to walk, not drive all the way out there which took 20 minutes. True to expectations finds were rather limited but as you know you never can find everything! First site was the oldest and I found the two really nice plain tombacs there. Also pulled a really nice bone handled fork. I have no idea how to date forks so experts chime in. I'm thinking early to mid 1800s but that's just a guess. Second site was a bit newer - mid 1800s to around the turn of the century. Loads and loads of dense trash in the ground here so I moved to the edge of the iron field since I only had my large coil on the AT-Pro. In what I imagined as the front yard I pulled one of my best Braided Hair LCs and few more plain-Jane buttons. All and all not too bad for a 2 hour hunt after work. Thanks for reading and taking a quick look!
John
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