Recent content by Trooper Bri

Happy Thanksgiving all! Saved this beauty last week from a current 1910 house in Suffield, CT that had a colonial home on it originally. The property has also seen fill as this was recovered at 10 or 11 inches deep along with most of the other finds so far. And being on the corner of an...

Obviously I know what it is. An 180? Spanish 2 Real with most of J. Warren's countermark across the obverse. This was dug a couple weeks ago at a quiet colonial cellar hole in northern CT. I just don't know who J. Warren is. Guessing a merchant somewhat local to the area. But after poking...

So, two weeks ago when we found that we were on an untouched site, Dan made a prediction a couple hours into the hunt. With all the dandy buttons popping, there had to be a George Washington Inaugural button there. He was right! A few hours into it, boom! It was a free-for-all on the last hunt...

Dan already summed up our adventures from Saturday, so I'll keep it brief. Spot #1 looked great with hardly any walls, all by it's lonesome, and even the tiny road into it was mostly overgrown by mountain laurel. I managed a small iron shoe buckle frame, and toasted pewter button near the...

Dan and I met up with a MangoAve, Lodge Scent, and Aloldstuff on Friday for a 6 or 7 hour group hunt on the 9 acre field I got permission for this week. There was a home on it at one point, now it's just hayed. The MXT did well, and I found relics in every corner of the permission. I managed a...

I too have been reminded I've been quiet here lately, so I'll start posting up, and get some past digs up too. Like the title states, got together with Dan for the usual Saturday dig, plus some friends.I'm not going to give away anyone's finds other than mine. I will say this though, mission...

Our friend Jim in Sturbridge is on a permission roll this summer. He was hunting public land and got approached by a private land owner who was worried Jim was trespassing. He wasn't, and after talking to the guy, found out the owner thought that there had been a British encampment on one of his...

First of all, I love switching from my V3i to the plain MXT. So fast and simple, I love it for cellar hole hunts. I finally tossed my D2 coil on it for this weekend's hunts. Dan and I got started early Saturday morning. He wanted to return to the cabin site we finished at last weekend since it...

Not dead, just busy and forgot to post up in AD the past couple weeks. Sorry! On 10/31 Dan and I headed out for a 2'nd shot at locating a home site in an area that had lots of walls and activity, but no luck, and no finds. What I thought was a button is an early type of rosette from Dan...

Ok, I lied. I dug an escutcheon plate from a piece of furniture too, but didn't bother with a pic. Met with some friends in southern New Hampshire for a group dig. 9 or 10 of us, including a shop owner from Colorado who drove for 3 days to experience a few days cellar hole hunting. Sunday was a...

Saturday Dan and I took a ride into Drew's neck o' the woods to check out a spot that was supposed to have a cellar hole. Found the road, found the walls, and then it looks like we found what we were looking for may have been on private property. Oh well. Plan B: Back to the site the three of...

Got a message from Dan on Tuesday if I was up for a mid-week hunt with Ill Digger (Tim) who was in to wn for the week. Heck yeah! Met up with everyone in the AM, and off we went to a spot Drew was very generous in letting us detect since it had been doing pretty well for him. THANK YOU Drew...

Nothing like cool Autumn weather this time of year. Had a fun day in the woods with Dan. Stop #1 was definitely tough. Picked over and trashy. No shortage of spent ammo either. I managed the large brass tack buckle when we arrived, and the small escutcheon plate not long before we moved along...

No Beardon involved. ;) It was too nice not to get out so I took a hike on some local trails and stopped at some shaggy rocks to take pics of my finds. Here's a pic of the corner of the quarry on that 2'nd site.

The other side isn't quite as good Drew, but she's still a pretty coin. I didn't know that about thimbles, thanks for the factoid!