Last finds of the year

[del]

Well the brutal temps and snow are upon us here in New England and my season is finally at an end but I had two decent outings (Dec. 21st and Dec. 30th) before the year !



Thursday the 21st Heavymetalnut and Donnie B. drove out to the far side of the state and hit a couple of cellar sites , this where Donnie recovered his Rev. war era waist buckle (Great find by the way Donnie ) and I scoffed up an 1833 large cent , but unfortunately the site was very depleted of goodies and it took hours of searching to come up with this one coin . We moved onto a site that Dave had remembered to having been there before and told us it was very quiet with little to find ! WTG Dave put us in a discouraging mood from the get go ! Unfortunately he was right but we were running out of daylight (as the days are much shorter this time of year) so we spent the last hour or two . I did get a very scratchy tone in the road and noticed that some one in the past opened up a small hole , I see this pretty common at cellar sites . other people hear a good or iffy target and dig down and see its iron or realize its too big to retrieve , maybe they are just lazy when its an iron target ? All I know is I hear iron but to me on my machine it was like there may have been something non ferrous mixed or very close to it My method from there is to isolate the iron or the larger target and remove it from the picture , I dug the iron and reswept the hole and I hear a nice sweet tone and pull out a silver thimble . Thank you very much , lazy or very inexperienced detectorist !


Yesterday Dec. 30th was a cold one 4 degrees in the morning , about 2 inches of snow already on the ground with another inch forecasted to come down Heavymetalnut was almost an hour late , boy did he hear about it while we were waiting in the cold for him Donnie and two guests (Rick and Ron Y.) all headed out in the artic barren in search of some colonial "treasure" .

Our first stop was a an odd site and we were unsure of its authenticity of being a cellar so we dropped coils for about 20 minutes ! Ron got a copper coin after about 15 minutes , a while later his brother Rick found a decent colonial neck stock buckle and we knew we had a cellar hole . The finds were sparse for the next few hours but I managed a broken shoe buckle and a gold Victorian cufflink ! Dave and the Yingling Bros. had to leave early and it was so cold I really couldn't blame them one bit Donnie and I found another site and that where I got an older type crotal bell , thimble and a tiny shoe buckle and I believe its and oldie too . By this time it was getting late , the snow was coming down good and the temps dropped considerably .

I believe the shoe buckle is a 1690 to 1720 type based on the size and style as its very similar to the silver one I found a few years ago on the right making that last site a very old one and good reason to go back and see what else it around .

Thank for reading !

Dan