October Hunts = Goodies!

Hey all. Been a while since I've posted. Summer was way to hot for me so I barely went out. In the time I was off I've been looking for a 68/69 Charger, Super Bee or a 69 Roadrunner.

For the last 3 weeks I went back to a virgin site I discovered several years ago that still produces. I've hit this place hard so I decided to bring a rake with me to clean up the site so that I can really get into those hard to get places. man was there a LOT of raking, LOL!

Here's what I've found this month a Ct. Copper, 1920 Buffalo Nickle, several wheat pennies from 1909 (not a VDB) thru 1920, 1901 IH, 17 Merc. Silver button, 2 more NY Municipal Police Dept. buttons (7 found total), 2 rings (1 Sterling that was bent that I was able to mend back) each have a stone in them. I think 1 is Onyx and the Red one is probably cut glass. Also got a cool cut glass thingy as well as part of a chocolate tong from H.D. Foss & Co.

HH,
Roger

What a pile of nice finds Roger!! If I had to pick, I'd take the police buttons :thumbsup02: Were the seven near each other? Congrats!

Thanks Drew. They've been scattered all over the site. When I find a good target I place a stick in the hole so I can see all over the site where the finds have been scattered to get an idea of the activity there.

Lots of goodies there Rebel. Great job with the rake. I thought the site looked a bit to manicured ;) I have some good old sites that need a good brush hogging :)

Thanks! I hate raking leaves at home and man there were a ton of them here but at least I didn't have to bag them, LOL! I raked them up to the walls.

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Originally Posted by Lodge Scent

Lots of goodies there Rebel. Great job with the rake. I thought the site looked a bit to manicured ;) I have some good old sites that need a good brush hogging :)

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Lots of great finds! That merc is in great shape, you usually don't find the old ones like that. The buttons are cool too. Any markings on the suspender buckle together a manufacturer or date?

Nothing on it but my guess any where from 1890's to 1920's. In my opinion the site died in 1920 as none of the coins found to date are 1921 or later.

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Originally Posted by Digger_O'Dell

Lots of great finds! That merc is in great shape, you usually don't find the old ones like that. The buttons are cool too. Any markings on the suspender buckle together a manufacturer or date?

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WTG.....great variety of finds. The police buttons are real nice and to get 7 of them out of this site....:thumbsup02:. With all those finds I can see why all the return trips. Is the Foss & Co item sterling???

I don't think that I have seen a cleaner site. Do you do residential?????:hystericallaugh:

Thanks Al. It's a 45 min hike in and after a long day of hunting it's a long way back to the car (up & down hills).

No idea but it's thin and fragile so perhaps plated?

Hardy harr, harr, :grin: I only do my house and for the most part I just use my lawn mover to mulch them up or I'd have easily 30 bags.

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Originally Posted by aloldstuff

WTG.....great variety of finds. The police buttons are real nice and to get 7 of them out of this site....:thumbsup02:. With all those finds I can see why all the return trips. Is the Foss & Co item sterling???

I don't think that I have seen a cleaner site. Do you do residential?????:hystericallaugh:

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I've never raked a site but there are a few spots i wished I had one ! along some of them stone walls you walk and you can just feel how deep they are from piling up all them years. you recovered some great relics Roger , I like the silver button very much , congrats on the copper and silver coins .

Dan

Sheesh! There's a lot of goodies there! That silver button is pretty cool.

:wow:, a little bit of everything. Great finds. Congrats

Thanks Dan. This is the 1st site that I've ever cleaned up. Guess I'm just plain crazy but this site has been real good to me and for the most part it's all flat. Getting rid of all the debris got me all of these finds I had missed on previous trips. My goal is to clean this site up completely by winter so by next spring the thaw may push up some deeper targets as well as smaller ones. With the finds I'm getting I'm hoping there is at least 1 Gold coin there from the mid 1900's.

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Originally Posted by del

I've never raked a site but there are a few spots i wished I had one ! along some of them stone walls you walk and you can just feel how deep they are from piling up all them years. you recovered some great relics Roger , I like the silver button very much , congrats on the copper and silver coins .

Dan

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cleanest lookin site i ever seen! holy crap man!

Sorry I missed this one, Rog. I looked at pics before I read write-up. Maybe next time you should bring a leaf blower in with you. Lol. I did notice at a site I was at the weekend before last that in some spots the leaves were almost taking away 3" of detecting depth. It was a trashy area with many overload signals so I am not sure to which extent that was hindering. A lot of nice finds in there you got.

Thanks you should see it now that most of the leaves have dropped. I'm NOT re-raking it, LOL!

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Originally Posted by HEAVYMETALNUT

cleanest lookin site i ever seen! holy crap man!

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No worries bud, I like picture books too, LOL!

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Originally Posted by MangoAve

Sorry I missed this one, Rog. I looked at pics before I read write-up. Maybe next time you should bring a leaf blower in with you. Lol. I did notice at a site I was at the weekend before last that in some spots the leaves were almost taking away 3" of detecting depth. It was a trashy area with many overload signals so I am not sure to which extent that was hindering. A lot of nice finds in there you got.

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