More decent finds - colonial field

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11-04-2019, 02:15 PM
catskillcomics

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More decent finds - colonial field

Went back to the park both Saturday & Sunday where I found my latest colonial finds. Everything in the photo beside the Dandy button & the knee or hat buckle was found about 50 yards from the home on a slope leading to the brook. At first I thought I found a colonial dump site , but then I found the well about 10 feet from the brook, then it made sense that they were traveling back and forth a lot from the home to the well. Wish I would found another coin or two.. there is one good signal of 80-84 that I wish I could dig, but it would require taking down a tree.:lol: The ring is made of lead, I have no idea what that would of been used for.
11-04-2019, 04:58 PM
Tony Two-Cent

I wish I had a Colonial field to detect. :crying01:

You are definitely getting some old stuff there, Scott! Those buttons and buckle pieces and nice. You know there's more to be found there!
11-04-2019, 05:17 PM
Lodge Scent

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Originally Posted by catskillcomics

Wish I would found another coin or two.. there is one good signal of 80-84 that I wish I could dig, but it would require taking down a tree.:lol: .

Wow! Nice bunch of finds. Yeah I would lose sleep knowing I left a colonial 80-84 target signal in the ground. This is what you do. Get a 2 foot long piece of 3/8 or half inch copper pipe. Hammer it about half way into the ground next to the high conductor. Pull the pipe out, knock the dirt out. Put the pipe back in the hole. Fry some bacon. Eat the bacon. Pour the bacon fat down the pipe into the hole. Overnight one of the local varmints will dig out that bacon grease to the bottom of the hole. With just a little bit of pinpointing and digging, your high conductor will be ready to be harvested.
11-05-2019, 06:04 PM
OxShoeDrew

Take a small coil next time (or a chain saw :lol:)! I bet you'll get your coin!
11-05-2019, 06:07 PM
OxShoeDrew

Wow, Jeff! Good idea! Does it work...or are you kidding, and I'm gullible?
11-05-2019, 08:38 PM
Cheap Thrills

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Originally Posted by Lodge Scent

Wow! Nice bunch of finds. Yeah I would lose sleep knowing I left a colonial 80-84 target signal in the ground. This is what you do. Get a 2 foot long piece of 3/8 or half inch copper pipe. Hammer it about half way into the ground next to the high conductor. Pull the pipe out, knock the dirt out. Put the pipe back in the hole. Fry some bacon. Eat the bacon. Pour the bacon fat down the pipe into the hole. Overnight one of the local varmints will dig out that bacon grease to the bottom of the hole. With just a little bit of pinpointing and digging, your high conductor will be ready to be harvested.

Fricken' brilliant ! I'd give it a shot . I don't see how it could fail . Good call Lodge Scent . :yes:

Awesome finds Catskill ! :congrats:
11-05-2019, 09:40 PM
Lodge Scent

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Originally Posted by OxShoeDrew

Wow, Jeff! Good idea! Does it work...or are you kidding, and I'm gullible?

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Originally Posted by Cheap Thrills

Fricken' brilliant ! I'd give it a shot . I don't see how it could fail . Good call Lodge Scent . :yes:

Awesome finds Catskill ! :congrats:

I have yet to try it Drew, but as Cheap Thrills says...how can it fail. :) Plus you get to eat some bacon.

With the quality and quantity of great colonial finds that Scott has been recovering from that site, I would get creative to get that challenging target because you know it could be something really good.
11-06-2019, 11:10 AM
calabash digger

Very nice!
11-07-2019, 06:36 AM
del

Love the shoe buckle on the left and ornate fragments , bet there are a few more and maybe a whole complete one laying around , you obviously found a main traffic pathway to and from the well . Keep working it usually there are multiple paths to a well plus hillsides are some of the best places overlooked and coins are usually in great shape when found on them .

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Originally Posted by Lodge Scent

Wow! Nice bunch of finds. Yeah I would lose sleep knowing I left a colonial 80-84 target signal in the ground. This is what you do. Get a 2 foot long piece of 3/8 or half inch copper pipe. Hammer it about half way into the ground next to the high conductor. Pull the pipe out, knock the dirt out. Put the pipe back in the hole. Fry some bacon. Eat the bacon. Pour the bacon fat down the pipe into the hole. Overnight one of the local varmints will dig out that bacon grease to the bottom of the hole. With just a little bit of pinpointing and digging, your high conductor will be ready to be harvested.

:lol: its so crazy sounding that it just might work flawlessly !
11-08-2019, 09:17 AM
catskillcomics

Tony, you always welcome to come visit, I have a spot up in the Catskill Mountains I've wanting to go to, 3 or 4 cellar holes, never detected but we have to go either in the early spring or fall, lots of Rattlers up there.
11-08-2019, 09:20 AM
catskillcomics

Drew, come over with your chainsaw, I'll have bail money ready to get you out :lol:
11-08-2019, 09:30 AM
catskillcomics

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Del, Yes, that one shoe buckle you like, I like as well, you can't see it in the photo but it still has a tiny bit of silver wash on it here and there.