The whole family had plans today which left me with a little free time. Hmmmwhat to do? Haha
I'm going detecting!
I went to a old farm that I've been working for a couple of years. The farmer came out to see what I was finding and told me about the ghost town that was partially on his land! I knew about the ghost town but never realized there homes supposedly on this side of the river. So I had to check know it out! After walking through the muddy field not seeing any signs of a old home site I started to get a little discouraged. About then I started to see lots of broken glass, earthenware, bricks, clam shells, iron bits! Yep! He was right! Something was here!
After about three hours I had little to show for the huge effort I was putting in. Did I mention the ground has refroze hard as concrete again and to make it real interesting the frost started to come out as the tempts finally got above freezing and three plowed field turned into a sticky, slim coated mess!!! I had about had it with shot gun brasses, brass rivets, bits of iron with occasional chunk of can slaw.As I started making my way towards my truck is got a screaming signal that was broken and the VDI was jumping all over the place. Without much hope of it be anything good I jabbed my shovel into the frozen ground and a big chunk of frozen dirt went flying about 3 feet. As I looked back at the ground and was reloading for another careless stab at the frozen dirt I seen a round object in the frost!
I bent over and got real close to see this...
As my eyes started to bugoutsaid to myself "that's a seated quarter!"
Whoo hoo!!!First one! Scratch that off my bucket list!
It looks like the plow got it this past fall. But oh well!
You can imagine my excitement! I thought my heart was going to jump out my chest!
I stood up took two step and bent over to pick up a broken blob top bottle I see this!
First to touch this in ..... who knows how long!
Pretty exciting 5 minutes! I ended up staying for another 2 1/2 hours with only a bail seal as my only good find.
The other finds.
Dont ya just love it when a plan comes together!
Thanks for lookin & HH
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I'm so happy for you! 
on a great day !!
BTW, the projectile point looks like a Rice Side-Notched (not shallow side-notched). Excellent finds my friend! HH, Dave.
I like the stone point very much too ! 
