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Hi everyone. Here are the finds from my last two hunts. Got out with my good friends from Green
Mountain Diggers this past Sunday for some cellar hole and field hunting. Then I did a solo field
hunt on Tuesday. Lots of bits and bobs including a reigns guide, barrel tap, clock key, Victorian
sash buckle, part of an old slide ruler and a number of buttons.

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The cellar hole was the first spot we hit, and amazingly I dug two early Matron LCs on my first two
targets - just walked to a relatively open site behind the cellar to start things off. Man, you just get
lucky sometimes! The 1816 (at left) was in better shape, but since I already had one of those I gave it
to my friends Dad who accompanied us on the trip.

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Here's a close-up of the 1819 small date Matron.

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We also hit a field site later that day and I got my coil over a last date Merc.

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Then on Tuesday I hit a field site in a nearby town for about 3 hours. Finds
were slow but steady and I pulled my first NJ Copper toward the end of my
time there so was happy with that. Not sure on a variety.

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I also found some nice older tombac buttons there,

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this plain button with a nice eagle back mark,

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and this interesting fragment of what I'm guessing is an early hunters button with a guy
holding a deer or hog.

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The fields will be closing down in the next few weeks so I'll probably try and get out
on those a few more times before it's off to the woods for the summer. Thanks for
looking and HH to you all!

John