Tgiving weekend I did manage to get out. I may finally take a picture of those finds, but they weren't too spectacular. With the shorter days and an ailment acting up, I haven't been able to get out too much. But I still try. I wish I could have brought the detector with me where I went on Tgiving. My coworker, whom I am friends with, had invited me to their place seeing as this is the first time in 30 years that the holidays were gonna be completely different. Her brother hunts, and she said that most people in the town don't really care going on their land; only the ones who put up the No Trespassing signs are the ones who care. That's also for hunting, not detecting, which is less 'invasive' of a sport esp no limitation on what you find or regulations on the tools like there is with hunting. The Sunday after Tgiving, tho, I did manage to hit a spot where many cellars exist. I drove in as far as I could along the old road. It seemed like there were two cellars near each other altho the old map showed one. I didn't think barns would have the entire foundation dug. I thought barns were usually three sides cut into a hillside, because I know oxen or cows wouldn't be standing on wood planks held up by tree trunk beams.
The only keepers from that spot were a round iron buckle, a D-buckle, and a 1918 wheat cent. I didn't stray far because I knew that many cellars existed so if the luck wasn't great I could move on. Eventually I did move on down the road. I tried taking my car as far down that other road as possible, but had to leave it and walk. Way down the road was even under water. To the right I saw a road and one odd older tree with a sign saying bridge out. It was some new crude walking bridge over old stone footings. I crossed over to find another cellar and a well. It was not marked on the old map, but I was having a hard time placing things because it looks like some parts of the old road were changed. I didn't have much luck there either. Then all the sudden the machine was acting erratic. Beeping like there were perfect dime signals. Then it would go away. No targets to pinpoint on. Erratic VDI's. I gave up. The oddest thing, however, was on the ride home. It was a 45 min or so drive. The one and only time I had to stop to wait for someone taking a left-hand turn, was within a mile of my house, and their license plate was only 4 digits........ 1918.
This past Saturday I went to Glastonbury with a friend from the club. He called me on Wed asking me to make it along with a noob. He wanted a place that wasn't pounded so that a noob learning his machine for the first time can find some stuff. Not like at a park or school. I got there late. Same reason causing a hindrance with Tgiving weekend. (well, besides Sat after Tgiving was rain all day kinda killing getting out). I found them out in the middle field that was recently turned. A capped bust had come out of the area before. He found only a wheat and a musket ball in that area that day. The new guy found some old license tag. I didn't find much beyond bullets for the first while, which is why I strayed around to other parts of the prop. But even back by the older orchard trees I was finding bullets. It wasn't until I moved to a certain area that was nice and flat that I got a watch fob. Seems Coyne trade school was founded 1899 and most of their advertising was from early 1900s, like 1911-1913. I believe they exist now as a different school. He and the new guy moved to where I found it. He found a token which he said was dated 1830 after cleaning and looking at it. It wasn't something any of us recognized and is just smaller than a large cent. One side had a square in the middle with a round shape above (or below). That same side had the words. Best I can describe without any pictures of it for ya.
I moved over to the old path to the fields. I remembered from the group hunt a few weeks back and where items were found. I scored a largie right on the surface within a few min of checking. It was reading like a silver half so I was thinking it was a half Or maybe it was actually just an inch down. After I showed the guy, they again moved to the area I found. He moves quicker with his minelab so he went up and down the road faster than I did. He pulled up a two center a few feet away from my LC. WTH... Why didn't I get it? It is good he got it, but wish I could have finally scored one. He's gotten quite a few before. Esp since I showed him my target and didn't get back to swinging before they were all over the spot. He pulled up an 1826 LC, and then another LC missing a few things. It looks like intentionally the date, 3 stars, and the liberty, and the one cent were removed...or not stamped into it. He has to look into whether it too might be a hard times token (which I thought would still say 'ONE CENT' as well as the 'NOT'). idk. I heard he got another LC on Sun morning about 10 ft away from the area we were checking. The last target I dug on Saturday turned out to be my first WW1 button. I have seen quite a few dug and have even put forth a lot of ID's for others on the item, but never got one myself. It looks like it was either a collar or cuff button. Made at the Waterbury place, as there were a few makers of this button. It still has some nice gold gilt left. I need to get some CLR and try the Dan method to clean it. Another display item. After things have been for the past few weeks for me, I am very thankful for the hunt. I am not sure if the tiny lead ball is a small musket ball or just a simple buckshot. It is flat on one side and nice and round. The other lead ball is slightly bigger than a musket ball, or at least the one found there. It's not quite round. Doesn't look the same as fired ones. Doesn't completely discredit it from being such. Might still be just lead slag. They did carry lead on hand to make the balls.
OH, and I got a penny trifecta. Lol. idk if I consider it cheating to count the memorial to make it as a trifecta.
Oh, maybe the noob will get more proficient soon. It was his first time so I bet he was a little jelly seeing three LC and a token and a fob pulled in front of him.
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