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Met up with Trooper Bri early Saturday morning to hit i site i located a few weeks ago . This particular site has been off limits to us until now because of the recent hunting season , and these guys (bow hunters) get up pretty early. I usually don't attempt to enter the same area where i see vehicles parked at the edge of the woods , these guys deserve some consideration and respect:yes:. Yesterday was different because we saw no vehicles and grabbed the opportunity.
after a strenuous uphill hike for about a quarter of a mile :stretcher: or so we found our very small abandoned road and followed it to this.
it was a small older colonial with limited room to swing around the cellar due to a steep bank that dropped down to a marshy area but a large field across the road from it . We detected for a couple of hours and worked hard for every target but i did manage to squeak out a couple of buttons :thumbsup02:. one a huge (37mm) dandy button and Civil war era federal union eagle button (both cleaned in the pictures) .
Then a while later i get a nice solid "coin" tone and pull this up :happydance01:. It had me stumped for a bit as the bust a little different but after i took a closeup and got a good look i recognized it as a Connecticut copper.
After checking maps and having a snack break with Brian , i told him we were still a bit far away from the area i wanted to scope out . I told him there is a good chance for another cellar just up the road. sure enough about a 1/4 mile down the road we find this one .
we detected it for about four hours , the place was huge with many open fields but because the old home site was around up until the mid 1800's there was lots of iron flashing , tin and it made it very difficult to search around the old home. I did manage to get a very toasty matron head large cent (1829) and a nice complete crotal (petal) bell
nd some other relics that included a complete brass spoon , broken spoon bowls and a few buttons , two pocket knives . I did spot this fungus and took a snapshot for HEAVYMETALNUT
here are the finds minus a few buttons that were being cleaned
and the Connecticut copper cleaned up it turned out this is a 1787 "horned bust" variety named by the large protrusion that resembles a horn jutting from the bust's chest area . this is a result from a die break failure on this particular variety , a common one but i like it .
thanks for reading and get out there before it gets to cold :frozen: it was absolutely beautiful outside .
Dan
after a strenuous uphill hike for about a quarter of a mile :stretcher: or so we found our very small abandoned road and followed it to this.
it was a small older colonial with limited room to swing around the cellar due to a steep bank that dropped down to a marshy area but a large field across the road from it . We detected for a couple of hours and worked hard for every target but i did manage to squeak out a couple of buttons :thumbsup02:. one a huge (37mm) dandy button and Civil war era federal union eagle button (both cleaned in the pictures) .
Then a while later i get a nice solid "coin" tone and pull this up :happydance01:. It had me stumped for a bit as the bust a little different but after i took a closeup and got a good look i recognized it as a Connecticut copper.
After checking maps and having a snack break with Brian , i told him we were still a bit far away from the area i wanted to scope out . I told him there is a good chance for another cellar just up the road. sure enough about a 1/4 mile down the road we find this one .
we detected it for about four hours , the place was huge with many open fields but because the old home site was around up until the mid 1800's there was lots of iron flashing , tin and it made it very difficult to search around the old home. I did manage to get a very toasty matron head large cent (1829) and a nice complete crotal (petal) bell
nd some other relics that included a complete brass spoon , broken spoon bowls and a few buttons , two pocket knives . I did spot this fungus and took a snapshot for HEAVYMETALNUT
here are the finds minus a few buttons that were being cleaned
and the Connecticut copper cleaned up it turned out this is a 1787 "horned bust" variety named by the large protrusion that resembles a horn jutting from the bust's chest area . this is a result from a die break failure on this particular variety , a common one but i like it .
thanks for reading and get out there before it gets to cold :frozen: it was absolutely beautiful outside .
Dan
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