Only 1keeper today, but it's a good one

kpmoose

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Up & out of the house at 5am this morning for a few hours hunt before the family even woke up. Researched the site of a cellar hole 20 minutes from my house. This site seemed to be hunted pretty good prior, but as I've heard others say, "a pounded site is never completely hunted out". I had no keepers for the first 2 hours, then I had a solid 80 VDI repeatable reading at 4" depth, right against a stone wall. After digging the plug, the target was deeper than the 4", indicating a larger target. Unfortunately, I ended up knicking the target a bit with my lesche digging tool (I thought it was a rock- rookie mistake):shocked04:. Got the target out & to my surprise, it was a Civil War eagle breast plate. :smitten:I've been dying to find anything old with an eagle on it. Mission accomplished.

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:shocked03::loveit: what a great relic Kevin :clapping::clapping: its a beautiful relic and certainly center piece in any ones display case. mega-congrats sir:notworthy:
 
That's a beauty!!! I'd kill to find one of those! :shocked04: You can't even see the scratch!
 
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there are many variants of this 1826 designed type of shoulder belt plate but yours looks to be the enlisted man's 1856-1863 one . it should measure to 63mm across and is known as the "short arrows" version. again great piece of military history.:perfect10:
 
A lot of people would have gotten the hell out of there after 2 hours of no keepers but persistence is the key. You put in the time and earned that one Kevin.:clapping: Super find and as Dan said, great center piece to display
 
del said:
there are many variants of this 1826 designed type of shoulder belt plate but yours looks to be the enlisted man's 1856-1863 one . it should measure to 63mm across and is known as the "short arrows" version. again great piece of military history.:perfect10:
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Thanks for that information Dan. Yup, measures about 63mm. Now I have something good to bring to the next YTC meeting. :happydance01:
 
Thanks everyone. I appreciate the props.

I told the wife that she has to sleep on the couch tonight. She asked why? I said the eagle breast plate will be beside me tonight honey. :lol:
 
Congrats on the find. I wish I found something more than I did this weekend. I found a ric amount of clad in maybe a 20x30 area, but I think I need to research the spot more. There is supposed to be a field where the military drilled in the late 1600's. I found two plaques but I was unsure which of the 4 fields near the area are the true field. But Im intending to head back. And there are quite old houses near the area to do some door knocking..
 
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Fantastic moose! Congrats!
Amazing what's still under your feet, so close to home. Even more reason to attend the next meeting. :grin:
 
The Rebel said:
That's an AWESOME find! if you know the name of the family that lived there, take a look into the CT CW Archives to see if you can find the persons war record.

http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Connecticut_Civil_War_Infantry_Union_Units
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Thanks for the link. I'll check it out. :groovy:


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Fantastic moose! Congrats!
Amazing what's still under your feet, so close to home. Even more reason to attend the next meeting.
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So true. Not what I was expecting to find. You never know.
 
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