The Old Lady On The Hill

So I went back to my new property today where I found the eagle breast plate and canister shot yesterday. I'm still getting used to the layout of this place and how much property the lady actually owns. It's gotta be 80 acres or more-- flat meadows near a waterway, big giant hills, a really pretty place. I started far away from where I found the finds yesterday and worked a creek bed first. Not finding anything there, I climbed the big big hill to the side of it and getting to the top, I realized it was a large meadow as well with a single tree in the middle of it. I took in the scenery around me and thought to myself, "This is a great spot for a house, I wonder if there ever was one here."

As I approached the tree, about ten feet away from it, I got my first good signal. It wasn't very loud but it had the right high tone to possibly be a deep coin. As I got down to about 10 inches, and carefully working around the target with my Lesche, out popped a green disk. It's pretty worn, but as I ran a little water over it, I recognized the cap bust of a very old large cent. Holy crap, I just found a 1700's large cent! Cleaning a little more I was pleased to see that the date was still quite legible--1795. Nice! I haven't pulled one of these for several years. It was very strange that just like yesterday, my first good signal was spectacular in each case, and then very little afterwards.

The big flat button actually came a few feet away in what turned out to be trash pit area. It was at first a multiple broken up big iron tone. As I got deeper and deeper I started seeing bits of crockery, China, and brick coming out. Wow, I need to come back and sift this spot. Anyway, after I found the large iron peace about a foot and a half down (don't know what it was but left it for now), I started scanning the hole walls with my pin pointer and got a great tone. That's when the large flat button popped out. I dug out the walls some more, but no more good signals right off.

After combing over the hill a good bit, I did manage to find some other nice flat buttons, and a couple of what's it's. Also, right near the tree, I got a very loud tone. Out pops that nice bird wing, whatever it goes to. What's funny is that I just saw someone's post on Treasurenet yesterday that had a similar wing in there finds. As soon as I dug this one I thought "What the heck, I found one too???" Crazy....anyone know what it was part of?

Nice finds . large cent is in decent shape..great job.

Very nice LC Great condition too

Congrats on the finds!! Looks like a great place to hunt. I've found a wing too. I figured it was off of an old "motometer" on a automotive radiator.

Very nice finds! Love that old LC, it's in really nice shape. :thumbsup02: Just found my first and second ever LC this year which was great since thee older one (1841) predates the state by 7 years. Really a sweet day when one of those pop up! The buttons are nice too! I have only ever found one older button which turned out to be a pewter underwear button from around 1900 or so. :lol:

As for the wing, I couldn't tell you anything about it, but it sure looks nice! What material is it? Sort of looks like silver.

:wow:great coin Barry !! from the looks of the tombac and dandy button along with the coin ,china pieces and brick i would say you probably found a colonial cabin site upon that hill .

Nice LC and dandy. Who knows, maybe if not a house or a cabin, just a picnic spot. You did say there was a single tree in the meadow....

Awesome finds! Especially that LC! 1795!