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Got out last Sunday for a hunt. Beautiful chilly morning and it was easy for the ticks to sense when a warm body was in range. But by noon it had warmed up and not a single tick on the way out. I managed to pull a couple of buttons from the shell midden/trash dump at the back end of the site. I...

By brown gold, I mean Hen of the Woods mushrooms (maitake). They are only around for a few weeks and only at this time of year and only found at the base of oak trees, but they are worth looking for. The are my favorite of all mushrooms. I was detecting on the outside of the stone walls at a...

Literally. Got out this weekend for a hunt. Found 18 buttons in a roughly 4 foot square area. Based on the different sizes and numbers of each size, AI suggested they were from a men's froc coat or tail coat between 1740 to 1840. They were all plain, nothing fancy. That makes sense for this...

This is a cellar hole site I've been hunting for 12 years. It used to be wide open with plenty of room to swing a coil but now you can be standing 2 feet from it and not see it. I somehow managed to pull an 1827 Matron and a nice stick pin right from that tangled mess. The Matron was on edge...

I've been hitting this site for 15 years and it is the first silver it has produced. It's given up plenty of US and British coppers, buttons and homestead relics but not a single silver until today. Jeff

Finally getting some nice weather. By "nice" I mean not hot. By "hot", I mean anything above 70 degrees.;) I got a jumpy signal when swinging near rock in front of a stone wall. First thing that came out of the hole was a nail, then out came 3 Indian Heads. It was easy to picture a hunter...

Hi folks. Here are some finds from last few hunts. One hole from a few weeks ago had 2 pewter buttons and 2 glass cuff links. Sniffed out a beat up 1723 Hibernia, bunch of buttons. Today I found a Dragoon button. Jeff 4 in the hole Glass cufflinks. Still has a couple of links on the back...

The pickings were really slim this weekend, maybe 5 non ferrous targets in 4 hours but 2 were coppers. First was a dateless Matron. Second was this nice looking 1798 Draped Bust. Jeff

Hiked through a mile of scrub oak to get to one of my sites. Pickings have been slim there but it gave up some goodies yesterday. I dug a War of 1812 1st Artillery Regiment button a dateless Draped Bust copper, a thin copper ring, old purse top etc.Lodge

Dug this shoe buckle this morning. It was super crusty when it came out of the ground. Was really surprised how ornate it was when I cleaned it up at home. Lodge

Managed to sniff out an 1833 Matron Head this morning along with some buttons and misc. Dragonfly paid me a visit. Jeff

I was able to sniff out an 1843 Large Cent and a 1740 1 real today. I haven't had a copper and a real on the same hunt in some time. They were about 2 feet apart right up close to the cellar hole's well. The real is from a Mexican mint and is in nice shape. Jeff The buttons above the...

The wet ground helped unhide a few more buttons. The consensus on the ship button is that it's a Jacksonian that lost its rim.

It was cold this morning with the windchills in the teens but the sun was out for the first time in a while! Dug this 1801 Draped Bust this morning. Was happy to get a date off of it. I had my doubts when I saw all that dirt stuck to it.

Same old story. Pounded site (are there any other kinds these days?). Looking at my records I haven't pulled a copper from this site in 5 years and I've hit that site a lot. On Saturday I pull this Draped Bust ten feet from the cellar hole ! It took some extreme settings though. Reactivity at...

Sniffed some mid-conductors out of the iron today including this little flat button. I almost tossed it into the button bucket but decided to rub the dirt off and was surprised to see the remains of an eagle with shield holding an olive branch in its talons. I thought it might be be military...

For you Deus 2 users.....I had to laugh when I dug that 1827 Matron. I was in Sensitive Full Tones and had dug 5 or 6 .22 casings etc. All mid tone finds. After a while I decided to make a Tone bin from 71 to 88 and put the volume at zero to eliminate any falsing, just relax a bit and maybe pick...

I was surprised to dig this one out today at around 9 or 10 inches. 1827 Matron. Not an uncommon date, but it's one I didn't have. Jeff

Beautiful day in the woods today, started out with temps in the 20s but warmed into the 40s. I hadn't found a coin at this homestead site in several years. Easy targets are long gone. I had dug a couple of small broken pewter buttons and a couple of .22 leads and was about to call it quits when...

I constantly marvel at all the stone walls that I come across while out detecting here in the woods of New England. It always made me wonder why anyone would even want to try and farm here in the first place if there were that many rocks to deal with. Interestingly, when the first settlers...