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    Senior Member fyrffytr1's Avatar
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    Dig it All

    The site I am currently hunting was a native American village until the very early 1830s. There have been no other inhabitants since then. There was trade with the British and Americans and Andrew Jackson even stayed there for a brief period during the Indian wars.
    So, every signal, no matter how small or large, has to be dug. Even the trash at this site is historical with the only exception being some later farm implements and the always present shot shell base.
    I have hunted this site several times in the last month or so and have had some success. This is mostly plowed farm land and there is no way to know where to dig. One just has to walk until the detector picks up a signal. Then you just start making a spiral and, if you are on a hut site, the finds will come.
    I was fortunate to find two such sites and I did a lot of digging for a few keepers.
    The natives would cut up copper kettles to make rolled copper points, tinklers and other adornments. There were a lot of scrap pieces left over.They also used silver to make jewelry. Picture #6 shows how small the silver pieces can be.
    I have found several rolled points, a trade ax(maybe two if the other piece turns out to be one), tinklers, gun parts from a British flintlock musket, round balls, British buttons and other items. I have also been lucky enough to find some flint points and a hammer stone.
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    Those trade artifacts are so cool. Yeah, some sites you do have to just dig it all.
    Oldest find: 5,000 year old copper spearhead
    Oldest coin: 1699 William III halfpenny
    Purdiest coin: 1832 Capped Bust quarter
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    Wow, great history there! Sounds like the perfect place to use a good PI machine.
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    That site is definitely a "dig it all" site. Great artifacts!
    Detectors I use: Minelab Equinox 900 & Manticore
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    1,000+ silver coins
    92pcs of 1700's Trade Era Silver
    Copper Culture Indian Artifacts
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    Fascinating array of finds! Those would be some of the oldest finds we can make here in the states with a metal detector. I love the little silver cone-shaped adornments. They are tiny!

    Congrats on all the historic finds!
    Lifetime totals:
    9 Large Cents, 415 Indian Heads, 2 Two Cent Pieces, 1 Capped Bust Half Dime, 1 Seated Half Dime, 10 Shield Nickels, 68 V Nickels, 124 Buffalo Nickels, 31 War Nickels, 16 Seated Dimes, 131 Barber Dimes, 405 Mercury Dimes, 249 Rosies, 4 Seated Quarters, 18 Barber Quarters, 19 Standing Liberty Quarters, 89 Silver Washingtons, 1 Seated Half, 3 Barber Halves, 16 Walking Liberty Halves

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    WOW, simply WOW! I can't even start with my favorites. They are all awesome finds and significant finds too! Your photos have something to appeal to any kind of collector that's for sure. Whether it's arrowheads, colonial, frontiersmen, etc. Thanks for sharing this with us and best wishes for more! Dave.
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    1662 15 Kreuzers, Leopold I, Austria
    Best Relics: Bronze Age Arrowheads & Spearhead, 2c Roman silver ring, complete medieval knight's spur (x6)
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    Thanks for the replies. Hopefully we will get two or three more hunts in before the field is planted.
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    Congrats on finding that site. You've uncovered some wonderful history.

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    We have found two new hut sites in the last four hunts but, we are running out of time and places to look in the field. The huts run along a ridge and the last one we found is near the woods. I hope to get back out there Thursday afternoon because the rain is supposed to get here Thursday night and continue until next Tuesday or Wednesday.
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    Fantastic site. Everything has to be dug and I hope that the planting comes later and not sooner.
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    The farmer is putting cotton this year so it will be one of the last crops he plants. Still, we only have a week or two and can only hunt on Thursday afternoon and Saturday/Sunday. With the rain coming we will probably not be able to hunt this weekend.
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