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Digger_O'Dell
10-26-2015, 07:00 PM
Hi all,
Not much to brag about today as I only got one interesting keeper out of the bean field today. Seems every couple feet there are pieces of heavy wire strands or knots that initially ring up as weak quarter signals so the going is pretty slow. I suspect someone in the past plowed a couple snow fences and just spread the pieces throughout the field. But I did happen across one low signal about 6-7 inches deep that I was able to dig. Apparently it's a pewter underwear button circa 1900. Pretty great shape for the age, and still has most of the original white paint/enamel on it!

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OxShoeDrew
10-27-2015, 04:02 AM
Does it say anything on front of that button?
I remember driving through WI and being taken aback by the snow fences. We don't have them here.
Digger_O'Dell
10-27-2015, 05:39 AM
Does it say anything on front of that button?
I remember driving through WI and being taken aback by the snow fences. We don't have them here.

Nope, no writing or marking of any kind on it.

Here in the great white north snow fences help the snow from drifting over the roads from across large open areas. Has not been much need the past 20 years or so except in a few isolated cases-probably that darn global warming?
MangoAve
10-27-2015, 07:10 AM
Huh... I can't say I have ever seen one either, Drew. I think we'd need a bubble here to block out the snow we get. A wall just wont cut it.

Interesting. Soon you will crack that place and there will be more than one keeper. The place I will post about soon, the second trip I went there I got one odd find and I was checking the open areas. Turns out those were all filled and the most keepers come out of this one particular area.
Digger_O'Dell
10-27-2015, 07:26 PM
Looks like the field detecting is over for the year though. I found out that sometime between when I left for work last night and got back to the field this morning it had been plowed. Now it's nearly impossible to even walk in the field, and the detector would have to be swung above the peaks of dirt, too high to effectively detect anything. :shocked01: