Recent content by BTV Digger

Hi all, Thought I'd quickly share 3 top finds from yesterday at a historical tavern site in northeastern VT which has produced some amazing finds for my friends and I over the past 2 years. This site is not on any map, and I've posted some other finds of mine from this location on the forum...

Hi all, I and @greenmountaindiggers hit some new permission properties in the Champlain Valley over the past two weekends, one in VT and one in NY, one of which is a privately owned historic site. I think in total we dug about 20 coppers, 9 more of which found my coil along with a number of...

The air heated up enough and the ground thawed just enough for me to hit the fields for the first time in 2024 about 10 days ago. After striking out at the the first site, the second site was a nice surprise, and lucky enough the nearby electric fence was turned off for the winter. You guys know...

Hi all, Here's a couple of keepers I dug from the last two weeks. The capped bust dime is an ironic find, since Jeff posted the exact same coin just recently! How strange. His is in better shape, but I'll take it - my fourth for the collection. Also nabbed Vermont CW/Militia and Dumbartonshire...

Hi all, Here's a few other coins that have graced my coil over the past 3 weeks. The Matron is a common N-3 variety, as is the Machin's Mills half penny (V23-88A), but I'm happy to add them into my collection as both are in sharp condition for dug coins. The Jersey and Connecticut came from an...

Hi all, Here's finds from another little cellar hole in a field I hit with my close friend from @greenmountaindiggers this past April 18. Only a short 30 minute drive away for me this time. Finds were fairly typical from an early Vermont homestead, but what was unusual were the counterfeit...

Here's a few of my displays. I completed the larger double bookcase display just this past winter, while the other two are older. I still need to get some undershelf lighting put in for one of those. Thanks for looking! John

Hi all, Wrapping up my metal detecting holiday week this week - out a total of five days (Sun, and Tue-Fri). I was able to hit a number of older fields and one colonial yard, and got on some solid stuff, pics of which I'll be sharing in the coming days. First off shown here are finds from a...

Hi all, Just getting around to posting this here. Given the mild winter, I actually had a chance to detect in early January here in the North Country. Such a rarity. I probably could've gone out today as well with virtually no snow left here in the valley right now. However, it would've been a...

Hi all, Here's a few finds from yesterday evening from a local park a 10 minute drive from me that I've pounded over the years. I crossed posted this on IG also. Tried the Sensitive FT mode on the DEUS II and it sniffed out a few more relics from the old road I've detected on maybe a dozen...

Hi folks, I'd like your take on a find I made yesterday evening. Returned to my nearby little hayfield site for a few hours yesterday evening and focused the D2 in the small iron patch, nabbing some more tombac/pewter buttons (7), another full set of sleeve buttons (cuffs) and one half set...

Hi all. Here's a few of my more post-worthy finds over the past 2 weeks. I returned to the early cabin site in northeast VT I recently posted about, and also returned to a nearby site to me (about a 10 minute drive) that I had hit only once with the AT-Pro a few years ago. The Deus 2 performed...

Hi all, Went searching for an early Vermont homesite yesterday in northeastern VT. Lots of history in this area and the homesteader was quite an important guy. We knew we were close but had, up to yesterday, not determined exactly where in the myriad of large cornfields it was. I was teaming up...

Hi all, Well, the snow's all melted, at least in the valleys up here so I headed out to northeastern VT (CT River Valley) for a permission hunt with my good friends at Green Mountain Diggers - my first outing of the year - been too long. We hit a few hay fields around two old cellar holes and...

Hi all, Here's the finds from another early cabin site I'd mentioned about in a prior post that I located in late October of last year after quite a bit of research. Happy to snag the late colonial brass shoe or knee buckle and two coppers (1 wiped, the other a Connecticut) among some other...