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I went up to my cottrage the other weekend and found more relics and trade silver. One of the highlights was an old hatchet...probably mid 1800's. I went for a "wonder" deep into the woods and found a plain button and then found my oldest military button nearby. It is a US 16th Infantry...

Here are my best finds from the last few months from near by parks mostly... The 1870 Shield nik I found today at a new park that I have never been to before. I only found a merc and that Shield nik...the place should have been loaded but it has been hit hard over the years by others...

The other day I drove into one of the parks near me to do some morel hunting and as went by one of the beaches I realized that the water line was way down! So I went home and got my equipment so that I could detect it. I am not sure how long the water has been down but I have not seen any...

Yesterday I visited a fairgrounds that dates back to the 1880's. I was just glad to get out detecting in the nice weather. I came across a nickel signal that turned out to be a Jefferson at about 5 inches deep. I then reswept the hole and got a high tone in the corner of the hole and a bit...

My eldest son and I went back up to the cottage to close it up for the winter this past weekend and we did some detecting too. We visited the Indian camp site and it looks like we have found most of the copper that was there...very quiet there this time. We only found a handful of copper...

I have been doing some research on the pistol barrel and on the Coat of Arms. I am still not 100% sure about the exact history of these items but this is what I have found out so far. The barrel belonged to a Long Barreled Flintlock pistol. There is not too many examples on the internet but I...

Here are some recent beach detecting finds. I found my 9th gold item of 2023 on Saturday! Just a small 14K gold ring but the rush is always fun. Also I found a small 925 heart ring. All the other rings are junk. The silver rosie came at a park a few weeks ago. Thanks for looking! Jared

Yesterday my Mom sent me a picture of this interesting iron tool she found at the "Saw Pit" site where I found so much stuff at recently. So I was wondering what you guys think it is. Is it a chisel? or some other wood working tool? Also the markers mark is kinda fancy which tells me it was...

I took this last Friday off and headed up to my cottage Thursday evening and planned to detect all of Friday and most of Saturday and I am SO glad I did! Thursday evening I just detected my family's cottages and found a few pcs of trade silver and a couple of indian tinkling cones. Then on...

First all the bling... The ring with F on it is a Fendi ring and is gold plated brass BUT it sells online for $350! Seems ridiculous that a brass ring would go for that. Here is a pic of the good finds. Most came from Buffalo Beach. Lots of Rosies and some other nice older coins. The...

I am in disbelief at some of the things that I find sometimes. 2023 has been amazing with the trade silver earlier this spring and the gold rings I have found this summer. Now I think I have something perhaps even more fun. Last week I was at my cottage and on the last day (of course the LAST...

I found more gold at Buffalo Beach last night. It was a perfect evening...not many people and the water got glass smooth. It is a woman's 18K wedding band. There is a portion of an initial inside but I can't make it out. One of the War Niks and one of the Buffs I found at a near park...

I had a fantastic week of detecting local beaches! There are 3 beaches that I detected each day this week and it was a lot of fun. Below is a pic of all the junk jewelry I found this week. What is not seen is the amount of trash I also dug. There is a tungsten ring in there that I’m...

Below is a pic of my recent finds from some parks and a few area beaches. A little bit of everything. Yesterday evening I went to Buffalo Beach and I was very excited to see that the sand bars had moved drastically from last year. I now have (for the time being anyway) another 100 yards or...

Those are ear rings. Here are a few pics from that book showing these ear rings... The cross may have been worn as an earring or perhaps a necklace or on their clothing...I am not sure. It is strange to me that there is a hole at the bottom of the cross which means it would be upside down...

She was detecting about a step away from my Uncle's cottage (next door to our cottage) and found all this in one hole... All 1700's Era Trade Silver. She was pretty excited! They are silver but she is just leaving them "uncleaned" for now. I know I have shared this before but all of the...

Here are my finds from the last month. The 1916 merc is a Philly...one day maybe a D will show up.

I am so spoiled!

I am on a bit of a hot streak the last two days. I went to a park yesterday morning for a quick hunt and since no one was in the tot lot I thought I would swing through it. I have never found much in tot lots but the first signal was a bling jewelry so I thought I would stay in the lot for a...

For the past 5 years every time I go up to my cottage I find amazing relics and every year I seem to find more! Last week it was crazy! Crazy as in 68 pcs of silver crazy! and all from the 1700s to 1800! ...well maybe 1820's? Let's start with some War of 1812 era buttons. I visited a site...