Dan already summed up our adventures from Saturday, so I'll keep it brief.
Spot #1 looked great with hardly any walls, all by it's lonesome, and even the tiny road into it was mostly overgrown by mountain laurel. I managed a small iron shoe buckle frame, and toasted pewter button near the cellar hole, and that was it. Off we went.
After the off-road adventure, and a march through a marsh and mountain laurel, we came onto what turned out to be a fantastic site. The only fly in the ointment was loggers had left a mess in the area. Despite the sheer amount of items we dug, there's still more there we simply couldn't get at.
Thank you Dan, it's a day of digging I won't soon forget, that's for sure!! And definitely made up for last week's lack of finds in the rain.
Here's the group shot of what I dug. 39 complete buttons, a few pieces, a couple large thimbles, and a cut copper that may be too slick to ID. I spent a few hours yesterday cleaning and tumbling everything.
We dug identical dandy buttons. He's mine cleaned up showing a little silver wash.
Nice floral design in a sunburst with a bit of gold gilt left.
Assorted other buttons.
My tombac score for the day.
A button with a good sized scrap of cloth or wool attached still.
And the two big thimbles. Maybe whoever wore Dan's huge buckle frame owned these thimbles too.
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