Todd & me were itching to get out since the snow fell & today seemed like the perfect day to do it.warm temps snow melting and praying the whole ride that it wasn't too deep where we were heading.
Got there at 8am foggy,snowy but warm.looked like about 2-3 inches of snow in the woods.not too bad we been out in deeper stuff last year.
Found the site after about a 1/2 mile hike in.looked like an early center chimney cellar hole with a starter home or older cellar hole nearby.targets were tough going at 1st but later in the day our coils heated up.i got some buttons here n there.had a nice solid 92 VDI thinkin silver i dig a solid square of lead. one cool find and wish it wasn't busted is a monogramed letter "G" or "C" on a broken crotal bell piece.
later on i dug a nice complete shoe buckle.so towards the end of the day i get a nice coin reading.i call todd over to check the signal, he's like yeah dude that's a copper.so, dig down and flip the shovel of dirt out and see the disc but under the coin is another one.2 KGII's in the same shovel full. i fill in the plug .stand up swing to check.like 4 inches over i get another signal,i'm like todd i think theres another one.so I open up the hole pin point and see a smaller coin in the hole.pick it up and see another one still in the hole.another small copper.4 coins all holed.2 are smaller KGII half farthing? and no clue on the other one?French maybe? can anyone ID it? should be enough on obverse to make an ID I think. the 1749 half farthing is in awesome shape!
Todd is swinging like 5 feet over from my pocket spill and he gets a 3 copper pocket spill!
so while cleaning my finds and get to the square lead block running water over it.i'm like what the hell? only thing i can figure is it's a hand made lead ink well? has some stuff carved into sides DDD?
was a fun hunt.
we both ended up with 4 coppers each.we both got shoe buckles. funny how on most hunts we match each others finds. great to go home knowing we both had a great day detecting.
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It doesn't get much cooler than that. That farthing is a stunner! Inscribed lead thingy, ornate bell thingy, real nice shoe buckle .... that hunt is a 
any day.
The farthing looks fabulous and the shoe buckle also. I don't remember seeing the lead thingy but it is intriguing. Weird how it almost always ends up that we both find equal booty
Gratz on a great hunt. I post my finds tomorrow
Originally Posted by Thiltzy
Not a little bit of everything, but a lot! That 1747 is just beautiful.
because they were all holed i'm wondering if they were all attached to the same thing (part of a bracelet or all sewn into a garment and it was cast aside at some point). very interesting to say the least
(ok tell the truth Dave bet you said why couldn't of these all been Connecticut's or fugio's instead of KG's 
) great hunt and i agree with Willy 8 coppers at a site in one hunt sounds like a very unhit or lightly unhit place . congrats my friend
