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We at American Detectorist would like to thank the brave men and women serving in our armed services , veterans and the many who gave the ultimate sacrifice to preserve our liberty.

Gag loops or swivels were fastened high up onto a horse's bridal harness to hold a set of reigns that went onto a special horse bit (gag bit) to train the lead horse to follow commands . when the reigns were tugged on it forced the gag bit to do just like it sounds making the horse comply with...

When I find a copper or large cent i'll place it by itself in a container (with some paper towel or foam) to keep it from bouncing around with other finds. In hopes it will thoroughly dry out on its own and by dry out I mean the crusty outer layer crumbles or flakes off by itself. This draped...

I've been slacking on posting some finds (Sorry :embarrassed: ) This dirty unknown copper turned out to be a French colonies 9 deniers from 1721- 1722

A matron head large cent recently found before , partially cleaned and then initial cleaning complete ! now onto the "smoothing out the rough areas and then to waxing and preservation .

visual is nice but will it be able to pick out the non ferrous in the ferrous metal and differentiate them , otherwise its just another expensive "toy"

Great finds John !! That place is really starting to cough up the goodies !!well done :cheering: The King George coin is an 1806 or 7 King George III

I don't know if any of you go outside of this forum to get your fix and read of metal detecting finds or just absorb more information about machines or the latest buzz going around the "detecting community" ( I hope many of you do for a lot of reasons ) ! Some are ok , a small few are pretty...

I'd like to wish everyone here a very joyous and special Easter ! Dan

Jeff the coin turned out to be an Ottoman emperor Mustafa III coin of Tunisia from 1754 to 1774 like this example Thanks Don I love shallow overloads ! Thank you Chris Soon Al very very soon ! Too many storms this late in the season Dave , the buckle does have some odd bends to it ...

Donnie and I went back to the site we had hit last weekend (where I found my last shoe buckle and two coppers) but this week it was definitely Donnie's turn to do well there . It was early and pretty chilly :frozen: and the picture really doesn't show to well we had some snow squalls passing...

Its a "young head " variety and would date from 1727 to 1739 , congrats on the half penny

We in the northeast have been getting pounded by Mother nature as of late :shocked03: If tomorrow storm is half of what the weathermen say it will be our 4th Nor'easter snow storm in 3 weeks !:whiteflag: Donnie and I were determined to get out and we found a spot in Connecticut that wasn't...

My only chance to get out this weekend was a very wet one :badday:and the finds were almost nonexistent save for a couple plain of buttons , watch winder and thimble . I did at the last minute of the hunt get a first for me :cheering:a 1930's forestry badge That I am very stoked about !

First off my apologies for posting late , this is last Monday's finds :embarrassed: Went out on President's day in hopes that the 5 to 6 inches of snow that we got on Saturday night/Sunday melted with the high temps afterwards. :crossfingers::crossfingers: So Donnie and I and a couple of...

see the knob on the far left just above the spout ? that is the piece you found .

eDonnie B. and I ventured out yesterday for some unusually warm detecting as it almost hit 50 degrees !:cheering: I took no pictures of the sites as they were really not much to look at or covered in saplings or briars. Donnie and I scored mostly buttons but he did get on the board first with a...

I had a seated dime that I found years ago that got a grade of XF , and I believe this would grade at AU if I sent it in .

I managed to get out in the cold again after the quick thaw we had melted most of our snow !:cheering:Donnie , Rick an I headed back to the last site we did well at a few weeks ago This particular site then netted me a very old crotal bell , and very old (possible 1600's era) tiny shoe buckle...