couple of relics today

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Trooper Bri an I had plans to hit a few cellar sites this weekend when I get a call from HEAVYMETALNUT late last night about an invite with him an Thiltzy . He had a few sites lined up so I figured if Dave and Todd can share a few sites with Brian and I this weekend we'll do the same with our sites with them in two weeks (they got plans already for next week in New York and I'm camping with family) .

We met the boys around 6:50 am this morning and headed out into the woods looking for at least one positive site . very early on just checking out a couple of pens i see what looks like a possible early cabin site "footprint" .as i get to the front edge i get a deep sounding shotgun shell tone that turned out to be a whole brass thimble about 4 to 5 inches down good sign !! i re-sweep the immediate area and about a foot or two i get a very good tone much higher again about 5 inches deep. out comes a nice complete shoe buckle


yes we have a home site here I called the boys over , "its on" .... very shortly after i get a good tone but its a bit "scratchy" sounding ad this time a knee buckle with iron shape and tongue (the reason for it sounding that way)



we searched for a couple of hours around this small cabin site but was pretty quiet after that , i got one more button a good size tombac but that was it , we pressed on deeper into the woods and you could feel the day get hotter. We found the site we were after but it looked like some one else beat us to it as it was picked pretty clean of targets on our way out Todd spots another cabin site



Great eyes Todd to see this small stacked chimney through all the tall brush



Todd and Brian did very well here and I picked up most of my buttons and a cool old cow bell (only my second) . My finds for the day with cowbell.



last but not least is the indian 1875 that i found last weekend (my only decent find that day)


the sites I have in two weeks look like good ones and hopefully I can return the favor to Dave and Todd , thanks for having us today Gentlemen!

thanks for reading , Dan

update !! I just started cleaning the shoe buckle and it has some very nice colored patina under the dirty crusty layer , this is what i have so far.its has a great hand tooled stamped design, a nice addition to my buckle display.