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Buried Treasures. Finding five George Washington Buttons

got out with todd today to a couple new holes.Dan & George probably cleaned these places out but we snuck out a few keepers.a 1822 matron head,a no date holed IH,a 1899 barber dime in same hole with IH.a couple buttons,a personalized tag and some silver gilted horse rosette sized thin disc with...

was a busy weekend for me.Sat me & Todd(T.Hiltzy) headed up to meet Dan(Del) & Dale(Elad) for a group hunt to some sites Dan & me had been to before but Dale Re-Found on his own.nothing to retire on that day but I got a few buttons & my first complete Jews harp. Sunday Todd & me went to 2 cellar...

Todd called me cuz he wanted to get out after some major oral surgery.4 sites all close together we have pounded in the past.managed a few squeekers today.a neat little harness buckle? a few buttons,a toe tap ,a garter snake,a 1907 IH,a 1916 wheatie and some what's its? wish th ebig hand wrought...

Got out with Todd and hit 2 cellar holes.tons of big iron but managed to sneak some stuff out. 3 crotal bells,a diamond shaped pocket watch winder,a few buttons.one is a large colonial designed dandy button & the other I think is a colonial cut out button? a lead poker chip,a nice strap hinge,a...

There's this very long old dirt rd at the end of a dead end that I have been wanting to hike down for some time now.the rd is at least 3 miles long with no homesites listed on the old maps. but looking at arials you can clearly see walls in the woods. Todd had the day off from work and so did...

Got out with Gary to a few trashy cellar holes.managed a toasted VT copper & a nice native american sterling bracelet

thurs after work stopped at the old colonial still vacant & still for sale.I had permission from the owners last year to have at it.decided to go back for 3 hours.had a feeling i may squeak something else out.God knows how i missed this signal at 5 inches in the small front yard :confused: a...

after a mind blowing saturday hunt we decided to go back up to the cellar hole and poke around.and hit another one down the trail.the 2nd site was pretty hammered i got a button,a no date draped bust LC and at the GW site a cool lead seal with a name on it,2 zuoave ball buttons.one still has...

I'm not even sure today was real :confused: Todd picked me up & we went back down to the 1750's home he found his GW at 2 weeks ago. after about an hour of swingin around the yard I decided to go in the area he dug his.about 5 feet away the tree line was and headed in that direction.got a nice...

after work i shot down to a cellar hole me & frank had hit pretty hard.i started way in the back of the hole climbing over downed pine limbs and kickin stuff aside.1st signal solid 80's at 5 inches :thinkingabout: dug down ..copper! thumbsup01 a toasted no date matron head large cent. boppin...

18 hours :detecting: of detecting & not all that much to show for it.hey can't win em all

well i'm embarassed but here goes.we hit a big field today.i got a shot copper & my gary dug a bent keeper portion of a belt plate.he gave it to me so i could complete my belt plate.i heated it and slowly started to apply pressure and it popped :O( I was bummed out and figured screw it..solder...

Got out with T-Hiltzy today we made a long road trip to some cellar holes on private land that he got us permission to hunt. 1st site had cement on stone foundation,was trashy but squeeked out the CT civil war coat button.next 2 sites were nailed pretty hard and we moved to 4th site,that's where...

never could figure what these were when i dug em.got out with Rcat(ron) on sunday to a cellar hole. they are from a chain pump.always dug single ones.never a chain of them.2 ih's and my 1st complete pocketwatch.train motiff on back...

Dan invited us down for a group hunt to 3 of his sites.left to right is Jesse(sniffy)Dan (Del) me(heavymetalnut) Todd(Thiltzy) & Ray (Kray) from Va. we really had to work for our finds as these sites were hit pretty good in the past.i got a few buttons,a 1859 IH penny and the most ornate applied...

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Dick Stout has written many books on detecting and I have the pleasure of calling him a Friend on facebook.Dick is a great guy who really gets a kick out of ribbing me on facebook and his blog below is no exception...

Got out with Todd (Thiltzy) again today.went back to a few of my sites.Got a colonial shoe buckle & knee buckle frames,a musketball,and this cool chain like thing that had a lock on it with a name & adress of company?.there was thin leather in the hole with it.No clue what this could have been...

Me & Todd (Thiltzy) took a long drive to the other side of the state and hit a new cellar hole.a toasted King George III,a 1862 IH,a few buttons, a Escutcheon plate,the tiniest thimble i've ever dug & a cool brass & iron lock.the keyhole cover still swivels.watch it you woods hunters ..them darn...