Looking for colonial but only found 4 cents

[chief5709]

Sept 27th - I had finally secured permission to detect the lawns of a 1790's colonial. I had detected the surrounding fields a few years ago and had made some nice finds. When I pulled in the driveway my hopes of a good day started to dwindle. The once nicely manicured lawns were a mess and the outlying areas were very overgrown. The house sits about 200' off the dirt road and has a long wrap around driveway. The house actually faces away from the road (so the back yard is the front yard ) Anyways I found an area of tall grass but not to bad to start swinging. About 15 minutes in I got a solid 13-45 in all directions. I put the shovel in the soil and clunk, there was about a half inch of dirt and a lot of shale rocks. Finally dug out a decent hole and ended up with a realy nice 1849 LC. Most of the day was digging junk, struggled with the amount of shale and rocks but did manage to hit for the 1 cent cycle. LC, Indian (1875), Wheatie, & Memorial. Also found a bent up back to a pocket watch.

 

[Tony Two-Cent]

Great picture of the freshly dug large cent! :smitten:

The 1875 Indian Head is a very nice find too. Congrats on hitting for the cycle. :thumbsup01:

 

[aloldstuff]

Not many people can say that they hit the cent cycle. :congratsn that accomplishment.

 

[del]

that place looks like a great are to explore Brian , they must of had areas they like to picnic away from the house somewhere or hold family reunion get to gathers. congrats on the large cent and Indian.

 

[Bell-Two]

Congrats on the "cycle" or as I have heard it called a "grand slam"!

 

[Isaac]

Hey those are still some pretty awesome finds! Love the large cent in the plug shot, great penny grand slam today. Congrats on the finds. As del said check farther away from the homesite as they might've travelled or played in the woods or who knows what... awesome.

 

[Ronandari]

Beautiful digs. :thumbsup02: that large cent kooks to be in decent shape. Hope to see a pic of it when its cleaned up.

Ron

 

[OxShoeDrew]

Nicely done....Like Ron, I'd also like to see how it came out all cleaned up. :clapping:

 

[chief5709]

Just a rinse and quick scrub with toothbrush last night

 

[The Rebel]

WTG on the LC and other saves.

 

[Lodge Scent]

Nice! An unusual combo for sure.