This past Friday I had one of my best hunts in about 3 years. Hit a very remote cellar deep in the RI woods, it was about a 2 mile hike from my car to the site. The area has over a dozen colonial cellar holes (which I have done well at in the past), but I apparently missed this site on previous trips. Like the rest of the sites, it had been hit but not very hard at all. There were old pits near the cellar hole, likely from a long ago bottle digger. Whoever they were, they also left behind a rusting away shovel, it’s definitely been there a while. Also saw some more recent dig holes but they must not have been very good, it appears they didn’t do much detecting other than right around the cellar hole.After only a few minutes at the site I had 3 buttons, I knew I was onto a good spot. I then get a bouncy signal, figure it’s another button but it turns out to be my first half real this year. It’s in rough shape, appears to have been in a fire but I’m not complaining.
About an hour later, I dig what I believe to be my first ever revolutionary war continental navy button! Looks like whoever lived here was a rev war vet. Shortly after, I dig what I think is a rosette, and this also happens to have an anchor on it. Any help on this item is appreciated. Overall, I dug a personal best of 29 buttons in about 3 hours of swinging. One of my best days detecting in a long time. I’ll be back to this spot soon.
PS. I made some decent finds between the last time I posted on here and this hunt. I'll show those in a different post.
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