Brisk early Autumn morning Saturday as Trooper Bri and I trudge out into the woods in search of undetected sites. Our first site was a good half mile or so in and its a nice little stone lined depression with a chimney mound rising in the back . Its always a great feeling to be at a "new" site but the feeling quickly fell away to doubts ! This particular site didn't even have a lot of "iffy" sounding iron.
I took a quick picture at the sun stared to come up through the woods.
I tried to make the iron sound well enough to make me dig it but who ever detect here did an amazing job , cause Brain and I got "squat" after a good hour and a half . Very surprising our second site was just as far and it too was devoid of all but the largest iron targets . I pulled a large (1920's era double bit axe head) and iron trash from this site but that was it . It too was pick incredibly well .Our third site was a little ways away and it too was a bit beat up , there had been large machinery tearing up the area and some more modern dumping going on . Needless to say I didn't find anything so we again opted to hit one more before 1 pm . I did detect (as I usually do ) on my way out of this place and on the way out of cellar number three i get a decent signal . I tell Brian that i thing i got a copper but to my surprise i get this cut copper !
I couldn't id it and put it in the pouch and gave myself the "victory fist pump" and said "well I'm not going home empty handed"
Last cellar stop of the day was one that i found about a month ago but i only got to detect it for an hour and a half . Brian also hit it solo for a couple of hours and he pulled a copper also. So we gave it another try for a few more hours before it got dark.
I'm not even there for 15 minutes and I get a great deep target singing like a coin and I call Brian over to hear it .He agrees at about 6 and a half inches i pull out a small copper coin .
Its pretty dirty and i'm pretty convinced its a farthing or a liard .
Other than the coin the area was pretty quiet but i did manage a few pieces of pewter and a tiny cuff sized button . Brian did claim a copper for himself and before the sun set low we detected our way out of there and my last minute target on the way out of here was a solid +5 .should i dig this target it sounds like a tiny piece of lead bird shot. I purposely cut a very very shallow plug as these lead pieces are in the top soil and i scoot the plug away and re-sweep the coil . surprising the target is still in the hole and now a +13 consistently , now its sounding like a small tombac or pewter button . i pull out an iron looking piece in a clump of dirt and as i'm clearing the dirt i make out this .
Thinking of Jeff as I made my "colonial buckle " requirement !
that was cutting it close
Looking at the farthing while cleaning i noticed the "lady Britannia" was different than the 1749 King George II farthing on the left i found a couple of weeks ago .
This "lady Britannia" is much older and despite the rough appearance the bust is also "off" . After some research i found the coin and ruler on it !
the buckle despite having a lot of rust stains is a nice knee buckle frame and i did a little cleaning on it.
Thanks for reading all ! HH.
Dan
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Originally Posted by calabash digger
. Maybe another Black Friday hunt this year , get a few of us together . Thank you Drew.
