1749 KGII Farthing, Buttons and Balls

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November 7, 2015 – Another solo hunt at one of my favorite fields that I haven’t been to since last fall. This field has produced many colonial coppers, buttons and musket balls in the past. I intended on only staying for a couple of hours but ended up there for a good part of the day. I left early afternoon to meet my cousin at another site that we had detected a couple of Saturday’s ago with no luck which held true for this hunt as well.

I ended up with a 1749 KGII Farthing, 4 buttons, 4 musketballs and a part of a buckle as my keepers from the solo trip. We were both shut out at the second hunt.
 

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The house is where I met my cousin in the afternoon. Early-Mid 1700's with 7 acres of land. Heavily detected in the 80's. No keepers found by either of us.

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Nice score on the KG. It is in good shape. Amazing how even places hit in the 80's with the archaic machines have most of the silver gone (:lol: You older hunters are gonna hate me for that comment). The digital age now has the CPU able to process and change a reading in milliseconds where the old analog meter takes time to swing from the ferrous to non-ferrous range and now we have DD coils.. yet it is still not easy.
 
MangoAve said:
Nice score on the KG. It is in good shape. Amazing how even places hit in the 80's with the archaic machines have most of the silver gone (:lol: You older hunters are gonna hate me for that comment). The digital age now has the CPU able to process and change a reading in milliseconds where the old analog meter takes time to swing from the ferrous to non-ferrous range and now we have DD coils.. yet it is still not easy.
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This place has been hunted hard over the years but we couldn't resist.

Lodge Scent said:
Nice hit on that farthing Chief. Appears to have a lot of detail left too. I like all the round lead too.
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Thanks! Most of the coppers have come out of this field in pretty good shape. I have found over 40 round balls at this field over the past couple of years.

The Rebel said:
WTG on the KG! It sure survived plow as well as fertilizer damage.
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Thanks Rebel!
 
WTG on your farthing, looks to have some good detail. I have some musketballs but have never gotten 4 in a hunt.....:congrats:
 
aloldstuff said:
WTG on your farthing, looks to have some good detail. I have some musketballs but have never gotten 4 in a hunt.....:congrats:
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Thanks! This field and another one a few miles away are full of musketball's. Almost like finding wheaties in a park...
 
Thats a lot of lead ball , just curious as to whats the average size ?? any dropped ones ?? congrats on the farthing , Brian :thumbsup02:
 
del said:
Thats a lot of lead ball , just curious as to whats the average size ?? any dropped ones ?? congrats on the farthing , Brian :thumbsup02:
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Thanks Dan. There is a mix of sizes. buckshot right up to .69. Most are drops. The 69s were found in one particular area with the rest scattered, especially the buckshots. What are you thinking?
 
chief5709 said:
There is a mix of sizes. buckshot right up to .69. Most are drops. The 69s were found in one particular area with the rest scattered, especially the buckshots. What are you thinking?
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Dan's working with the Pequot Museum so he knows about battles. Since your reply I am thinking there might be a training camp or battle which happened there. Many drops could signify that they were hastily dropped while trying to reload in a hurry. Hopefully none of this steals your thunder, Dan.
 
Awesome Chief !! It's hard for a city boy to imagine fields like that still existing for detecting after years of hunting the small chunks of dirt in between the concrete jungle .Nice going on your finds .
 
Nice finds Brian and congrats! I'd love to see a pic of the KG all cleaned up. Looks like you'll be able to pull some nice detail out.

John
 
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