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Hi folks. Not sure where best to post this, but oh well. Went kayaking with my son on the Winooski R. today and eyeballed this huge conestoga bell in shallow water. Certainly the largest complete one I've ever found, and I didn't even need a detector! Its got one big ding on the top, otherwise...

Hi folks. Here's my finds from the past 2 weeks. I did 1 hunt about 10 days ago up in northeastern VT in the woods at 2 new cellar holes, and then again yesterday with my good friends Joe and Daniel from Green Mtn. Diggers in a field here in the Champlain Valley where the hay had recently been...

Well, the fields are now officially shut down until fall, so time to move onto mid-season cellar hole hunting. I scored a permission at the first farmhouse I stopped at - 800 acres with two cellar holes and an old school site back in the woods. Finds were slow, but steady enough to keep me going...

Thanks a lot guys! Here's a shot of the reverse. Should have included it from the start.

Saw they'd cut a hay field I have permission for and had yet to hit this spring. Farmer said it had been heavily metal detected through the years and true to form there were only limited targets. I did pull a nice ornate coat button with a flower pattern, then got a screamer at 8 inches that I...

Slow day today. Met several nice people, scored two permissions - and nothing but can slaw and some pottery frags. :( The old 1857 Walling Map said there was an old house on one of the spots I hit, but nothing was there - nada. Weird. By 200 pm time was running out so I went back to my virgin...

Hi folks, Here's my finds from the past week - 2 hunts - 1 solo last Monday and a combo dig with my good friends Joe and Dan from Green Mountain Diggers yesterday. I got the 1930s era Mickey Mouse spoon, a '34 wheat and some marbles from a permission field I hadn't hit yet. Lots of overwhelming...

Hi folks and hope you're all getting out and finding the goods. Pics are from 3 hunts over the past week and a half. The first two hunts produced a few goodies including a couple of musket balls, part of a colonial shoe buckle and one of the worst silver coins you'll ever see - an undated Barber...

Hi folks and hope all is well with you. Well, today was the only day I could hunt in between work, home chores and the weather being absolutely terrible up here. All the snow is long gone in the valley, but I've run into one of those streaks where all the nice days fall on the ones I'm working...

Hi folks. Here's my finds from the past 2 weeks. Hit a corn field last week and pulled a few things including a suspender clip, two c. 1900 valve stops and a nice c. 1820s W & C Tuckerman button with a decent amount of gilt left. Even though the finds were rather thin at that site the home owner...

Good evening all. Well, it took another 30 days or so but the snow of our recent string of Nor'Easters has finally melted, allowing me to return for a full day's hunt at the virgin early Vermont homestead I discovered late last fall. The finds at this site generally range from 1780 to about the...

What fantastic finds Tony and give my congrats to Diane as well! That '69 IH is in fantastic shape indeed...one of the best dug IHs I've ever seen posted on the forum here. It may even beat some of Digger Don's beauties. I also dug a very similar type saddle strap guide last December (see...

Hi all. Well, the itch finally got to me last weekend, and with only patches of snow on the ground (we largely missed the big storm last week) my hunting friend Joe from Green Mountain Diggers and I decided to hit a few permissions I recently got. We braved the 35 degree temperatures and winds...

Hi folks, Well, the past two days produced my best combined hunt of the year. I was skunked out for the first half of yesterday on a permission site with two old homesite locations and an old school - all gone - just fields. Property owner was gracious but it had obviously been pounded as I...

Hi folks and here's hoping you all had a great Thanksgiving! Here's pics from my last three hunts, mainly from mid to late November. Hit two permission sites and one on public property. Ironically the shortest of the three hunts yielded the best goodies. Nabbed two wheats (1925 & 1936), an 1865...

Hi folks, and hope all of you are finding some success in your recent hunts. Here's a collection of a few items I've found over the past 2.5 weeks comprising three hunts - one short hunt at a local park and two longer hunts of around 4 hours each at various cellar holes here in the Champlain...

Hi folks, Here's a look at my finds from the last few hunts over the past few weeks. Got out and hunted some cellar holes in the woods and also an old golf course from the 1800s/early 1900s with my buddies Daniel and Joe from Green Mountain Diggers...

Hi all. Well, after a much needed 2 week vacation to California, I'm back home in northern New England. Problem is, I work 13 out of the next 14 days (self-induced pain I might add - covering for others' vacation now :bummer:). Since this was the only day I could get some solid detecting in I...

Hi folks. Hope all is well with you and you're discovering history when you can! Had the opportunity to get out a few times in the last two weeks. On the first hunt I decided to detect a well-hit cellar hole about a half an hour from me which is right along a well used dirt road. This site also...

Had just a couple hours to hit a late 1800s/early 1900s cellar hole nearby today and only pulled a few keepers (2 older wheaties and a buckle). Also found this strange mystery brass item. Hollow with the larger threaded hole, I'm assuming on bottom with the letter M on the side (or W if that...