Had the opportunity to do a little detecting this week so spend 2 hours on Tuesday, then about two hours yesterday hitting near a large cellar hole that to date has yielded few finds. Tried some out of the box thinking, detecting the old road and road embankment in front of and across from the homesite. Voila! Hard to imagine all this stuff was just lying inches below where hundreds and hundreds of folks hike and walk their dogs each month. Everything came from a 150 foot long stretch. I had several people stop and ask me what I was finding, but I kept sorta mum, of course being polite. I believe Bucknut found a similar Canadian Bank Token LC a while back? Mine's an 1857 and came out in really good shape. 3 IHs were found within 5 feet of one another, one of which is an 1872 - one of the more uncommon mintages. Also love the conductor's hat badge, that's perhaps my favorite find and also thought the pottery frag with the woman and man on it was quite interesting so I saved it. I'm going to go back on a more inclement day when less folks are walking the trail and grid that whole section of old road. Thanks for looking and lets keep this mild weather a going here in the old country!
John
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....you thought it hard to believe the crotal and toe plate would not be found in the road? Nice banks token too. Since I got so many sites with cellar holes, I might give them one or two tries to unlock things, but if I can't find much I just move to another one. [I'm seriously talking that I know of somewhere between 75 and 100 cellars exist...that's why].
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