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Our first grandkids. Cam and Corinne decided to make their appearance 7 weeks early and in the middle of a pandemic ! But we won't hold that against them. :) The 2 little peanuts are still in the hospital but doing well. Of course we can't visit. :( Jeff

Hibernia (1723) and 1 button from last week. 19 buttons and 1 thimble today. Different sites. Hibernia is toasted but it does have 2 counterstamps "ES". Last week left. This week right. The button site has given up a ton of buttons (80+) over the years but only 3 coppers. Not the best ratio.

Went back to one of the sites I that I was clearing out some of the iron. Managed to sniff out 2 thimbles, a small parasol hub, watch chain thingy etc. Now I could detect for 2 more life times and not find the quantity or quality of shoe buckles that Dan has found. But today I found the...

Poking around a couple of my nearby sites. One is a mid 1700's site and the other a mid 1800's site. Decided to dig up some of the iron and get it out of the way. Managed to put together a colonial era table setting ;)

It would have been nice if they were 5 GW's but the funny thing was they are just 5 random buttons. I've dug multiple buttons from the same hole before but they are usually all the same types. I know I've put my coil over these buttons before and ignored the signal. There was a big crusty nail...

Poking around near the edge of the swamp. No date KG II Curious doe: Jeff

Hiked out to a site I hadn't been to in some time. The plan was to try and sniff out a goody or two from the iron. The only problem was that I forgot that this one one of those old cellar holes that had hardly any iron. After 45 minutes of nothing but an occasional iron blip, I decide to just...

Spent a couple of hours at my "peace and quiet" site. It's very small but it is right up against a swamp and there is no trail leading into it. I get skunked as often as not but I did manage a button and a brass ramrod tip today. When I got home I remembered I had found the barrels of a...

Got out for a couple hours Sunday. Managed an iron shoe buckle and some odds and ends. Dan I know you have at least couple dozen iron shoe buckles to go along with your 400 brass shoe buckles, but this is a first for me. :envious: Were these iron buckles towards the end of the shoe buckle era...

Hiked to one of my favorite spots. Just a very small colonial homestead. No stone foundation, just a slight indent in the ground where they built their tiny log cabin. Nothing spectacular found at this site, just a nice little place where I can detect in peace. I used my "Cuff Button Killer"...

It had been several years since I last found a Civil War uniform button, but I found 2 this month. Looks to be a general service button. No back mark. I got excited when I dug the remains of a coin purse, but no coins to be found. Jeff

Went back to the mid 1800's site just 5 minutes from my house. Tried some different settings and sniffed some finds from the blanket of iron. Got a dateless fatty and misc. other stuff. The anchor button is civilian. I dug this ship's wheel looking thingy. I was surprised when I turned it...

Last weekend and today I managed to get out for a couple of short hour and a half hunts. Last weekend the rain got me, this week had to get stuff ready for a family cookout. I dug typical mid 1800's relics. To the right of the forks are todays finds. Was happy to pull this 1860's...

Checked behind a pile of rocks and found this: Was surprised it was all in one piece. If it was right-side-up, water would have gotten into and busted it when it froze. I think it's a mid 1800's stoneware beer bottle ?? Jeff

Trying out a new coil at some old sites. Managed to sniff out a deep Matron Head and an on edge dandy. Also the remains of a bone-handled fork and a beaver tail. Woods are staring to fill in. Lots of young poison ivy.

Picked up a new coil and wanted to try it out before it gets too hot and gross (once it gets above 65 degrees I start complaining). Hiked to my "test" site where there are no easy finds to be had to see what the new coil could do. The site was true to form and only gave up a super deep musket...

Finds from last couple of hunts. Trying out some different schemes in the iron beds. Managed a KG III Hibernia yesterday. There is deep stuff hiding in the iron if you have the patience. HH, Jeff

Hiked out to a colonial era spot that I hadn't been to several years. You can see in the pic below why I haven't been there in a while. The site is TOUGH to hunt. Very thick. There is a cellar hole just beyond that tangle of vines. It had only gotten thicker over the years. Just a few small...

Hiked into one of my remote sites for some peace and quiet Sunday morning. Worked the iron laden spots to see what I could wrangle out of the ground. Managed a few buttons, buckle frame etc. Fancy tombac on the right. Looks like the "X" was added by the owner. On the hike out I stumbled...

A reminder to check those nooks and crannies.....especially the crannies....for ticks. I am usually very diligent in checking for ticks when I get back home from detecting. I was out in the woods a couple of weeks ago and I missed one during my post hike tick check. I found it 3 days later. The...