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    A good day to get out

    I hit a cellar hole with Donnie B and Heavymetalnut early before a scheduled club hunt and managed to get my coil over two coppersName:  May coppers.jpg
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Size:  61.1 KB and a few buttons. I had a great time at the YTC/ARNE club hunt due to the fact the pressure was off because of the coins found earlier. lots of friends and laughs and the finds were good tooName:  may club hunt group.jpg
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Size:  134.5 KB. A big shout out to Jeff calzarette for organizing this hunt at a 1200 acre Boy Scout camp! The area we focused was a newly acquired piece of property that had a standing 1740 era home Name:  May 4 site.jpg
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Size:  83.0 KBMy highlights were my first complete wrought iron colonial stirrup , a huge silver plated shoe buckle frame that was found about 10 inches down surrounded by iron nails (Dave helped me pull nails out of the hole , thanks Mr. Wise) , a nice little watch winder Name:  may  watch winder dirty.jpg
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Size:  66.0 KB Name:  may winder cherub.jpg
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Size:  56.5 KBand 3rd copper of the day (hat trick) .Name:  may matron dirty.jpg
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Size:  40.2 KBAn old 1954 dog license Name:  may 54 dog tag.jpg
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Size:  106.7 KBand religious medal Name:  may religious medal.jpg
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Size:  82.6 KBand some odds and ends ( silver plated Victorian era spoon a colonial door jamb escutcheon , musket ball an a couple more buttons) Name:  may 4th finds.jpg
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Size:  106.8 KB last picture shows the large plated buckle I found on this hunt and an older (smaller) one to shoe difference in size of these buckles in about a 100 years span.Name:  may shoe buckle with comparison .jpg
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    Doug Bowden captured some of this hunt on his youtube video here , Doug is very entertaining to watch
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9aFPSNndYc

    Dan


    Last edited by del; 05-06-2019 at 05:14 AM.
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