Pacivilwarluke
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So The college life has been intersting, lots of highs and a few lows, but in the midst of it all I've been out metal detecting a few times. My civil war seminary-orphange is still giving up some cool finds, got a few staff buttons, a patroitic button, a toe tap, eating utensils, thimbles, flat buttons, and the like. I was also able to find a big first for me, a nickel three center! It's an 1867 and rang up 45-48 on the at-pro! Pretty happy with this one, and looks really good in person! I'm not in an area with a ton of colonial histiry (Huntingdon PA, kinda the frontier in the 1700s) but I was surprised when my intuition proved correct about a colonial Homesite! I found a cellar hole ( odd in western PA, or in PA in general!) and my first signal was a tombac button! I was very excited because only two settlers settled in the 1700s within 10 miles of where I was hunting. I also got a crotal bell but the finds were sparse. I'm thinking that living on the frontier they didn't have much, and the largest city nearby would basically have been Carlisle, which is pretty far. So that's about it!