It's been awhile, but I'm back with some finds

[Pacivilwarluke]

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!

 

[Pacivilwarluke]

Cellar hole

 

[del]

:wow: great eagle buttons and nice relics in general Luke :notworthy: congrats on the cellar foundation , is that back wall built right into the ground or standing up with no dirt behind it ?? glad school is going pretty good and your still squeaking out for hunts here and there.

Dan

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

That's some great stuff you dug up! Congrats!

 

[Digger Don]

Great bunch of finds. Congrats

 

[Jeff (or)]

Thank you for sharing, you have some great finds there!!! Jeff

 

[OxShoeDrew]

Very nice Luke...never dug that coin before. Congrats on some sweet finds! :thumbsup02:

 

[BTV Digger]

Great job and finds Luke! Love the buttons and coin. Never found a 3 center. It amazes me how many of the cellar hole pics from southern New England and the northern Mid-Atlantic have wide open clean areas to sweep underneath the trees. That's a complete rarity for me up here in northern New England. Just tons of brush and briars to deal with most of the time. Congrats again!

John

 

[Lodge Scent]

Very cool. Can't recall last time I saw a 3-center posted :congrats:

 

[MangoAve]

Nice crotal and CW buttons. Three centers are prob a bit odd to see posted. But I just checked and they are the same as a nickel. Maybe it's also the size factor. I can't imagine previous detectorists would have dug these (sounding like a nickel) and avoided the other nickel signals.

First year college? It is a bit interesting but I never lived on campus.

 

[The Rebel]

Awesome looking finds Luke! Love the 3 Center!

 

[Tony Two-Cent]

Congrats on the wonderful finds! I am especially impressed by the 3-cent nickel. They produce such a low tone that most people don't dig them, they ring up much like a small piece of aluminum foil. Hence, we rarely see them posted on the forum. They ring up much lower than a regular nickel.

:congrats:

 

[Bell-Two]

Count me in on liking that 3 center and a lovely button too.

 

[Isaac]

Cool!!!