Well its been a few weeks since our 16 inches of snow and the last few days were beautiful and very unseasonably warm for February and it was time to get out and play in the dirt
Halfway through our hike to the first site I realized I wasn't carrying my relic shovel Yup I left it at home Thank God Donnie had a small hand lesche digger to loan me !
First Cellar site was a pretty nice half cabin half cellar with large chimney pile in the middle our hopes were high but as with most sites it was pretty barren of finds Trooper Bri nabbed a couple of buttons and Donnie scoffed his beautiful cufflink there I only managed a toasty dandy button .
So after a few hours we moved on up the road to the second site
This was an even larger site with also a half cabin half cellar building , finds were sparse here as well but I did get a great screaming tone and Donnie and I were convinced it was a coin but it turned out to be my smallest oxknob but other notables were a broken shoe buckle frame and very low sounding coin-like tone . This one was an
unrecognizable small coin copper number 6 for the year
After about noontime and the lack of anymore finds we decided to push on to another site , this spot was way out into the woods and the forest gate was still locked up for the winter and we just didn't have the daylight to make the trek on foot . Instead we opted to hit a close by alternate site , Donnie and I have hit this site a couple of times already so we knew the finds could be hard to find here . My first button was a very high sounding for a tombac but it was a very thick and large one , these thick types are good candidates for etching or designs but sometimes they are so crusty and the designs are so lightly done .I was very pleasantly surprised to see it was designed
One of the other buttons that read way to high for a flat button had heavy Silver plating on the front
Finds for the day also included a small ball button a couple of bird bands , a Lincoln memorial
Thanks for looking !
Dan