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Hit a local late 1800s early 1900s spot this morning for a few hours. Dug a nice looking brooch. Not sure what the style is but the wife liked it and said she would wear it if she was born a 100 years earlier :) Also managed a Barber dime, a corroded Indian Head Penny that is the same size as...

I was poking around the edges one of my well pounded colonial sites and dug a button. Couldn't tell what it was out in the field but when I got home and started to clean it I started to get excited as a couple of numbers emerged. Best as I can tell it is a button from the French 74th Regiment...

Saw this on a UK forum.

This morning I was going to hit the field where I found that nice pistareen a couple of weeks ago but decided I really needed to get in a good hike. Just too much holiday cheer this year. So I decided to hike out to a remote site that I've pounded in the past. The hike was the goal, anything I...

I found this a few years back at a site that has given up some colonial coins including English, German and Portuguese coins. Its the size of an English halfpenny but very thin. I don't see any evidence of a shank, so I don't think it is a button. I see what appears to be a "O" and an ""N"...

I've been driving by an overgrown field every time I go check on my parents. Noticed it had been cut last week and thought I would give it a try this morning. Spent the first hour just digging a few bits of miscellaneous junk before I put my coil over this nice 1721 two Reales. Not...

Another insane weekend but managed to go to the cellar hole down the street from me for a couple hours Sunday morning just to get out for a while. My plan was to experiment with some settings to see if I could sniff any more deep goodies from the iron belt right around the cellar hole. Dug a lot...

I hadn't been able to get out in a while so I was happy to join Drew for a quick morning hunt. Last time we had been out we passed a hunk of woods that had potential. Drew did some tenacious research and found evidence that there was indeed an old home site back in there. He had us on the...

I got out Sunday morning for a few hours. Temps in low 30's but it felt nice hiking to the site. Deer ticks seemed to enjoy the chilly weather too :ticked: Hit a familiar site and managed a few finds. Very toasted Draped Bust LC. Finds included a smashed small crotal bell, some hardware...

Lost my faithful old black lab Sam a few months ago. The plan was to wait until spring then adopt a dog from the shelter. Of course we ended up doing just the opposite and got this little guy last week. Charlie the Golden Doodle is now running our lives. 8 weeks old and already too smart for...

Almost a repeat of last week. Scouted out a new site that didn't pan out then I hiked over to some stock pens that gave up a few goodies. I think the lense on my cell phone cam was dirty. These stock pens had given up a nice finds in the past. Managed a mouth harp, a few buttons, some sort...

Got a good hike in this morning before it warmed up. Checked out a spot I've wanted to get to for a few years. The spot didn't pan out like I had hoped though. So on the way back I detoured to a site in the woods that contained a few overgrown stock pens where I had dug a few stray coppers in...

Still too hot for me but I hadn't been out in a while so I gave it a go for a few hours this morning. Found a much closer way to access one of my sites from a few years back. Found a few goodies including a plated patriotic fob, fancy drawer pull, nice gilt cone shaped button (forgot to...

Been using a Deus about 7 months now. It's a VERY different machine than my DFX. The Deus has forced me to think about settings and adjustments in a different way also. With that in mind, I might try and tune my DFX much differently than the way I used to run it. Below are the settings I might...

I needed a hike so I headed out to an old cellar hole site that I hit a bunch of times a few years back. It really is just a hole in the ground with no stone foundation. It had given up a killer DB and a dateless Liberty Cap LC and a couple other coppers in the past. I spent a few hours...

I'm in San Antonio this week and was pleasantly surprised with the view from my hotel room. You can only imagine what cool finds might be in the ground there. Of course The Alamo is a shrine and I wouldn't dream of detecting there but you can't help but wonder about the story some of those...

I found one of those "T" shaped things yesterday and one about a month ago at different sites. Both sites late colonial to late 1800's. Certainly more modern trash can be found at both sites. They almost look like electrical connections of some sort. I'm guessing the ornate flattened brass...

Got out early to beat the heat for a few hours of detecting at a stock pen area I've hit many times before. All the easy targets are long gone but you can always squeak out something if you work at it. Ferns were thick in some spots. But there were enough good targets to keep me busy. managed...

Many of us have found holed coins at colonial era and pre civil war sites. I’m sure some of these holed coins were worn as jewelry around the neck or wrist. But many of the coins have holes in them would lead you to think they might have another purpose besides jewelry. Why drill a hole in a...