Full Metal Digger
Active member
Hi Diggers,
Today was cold and windy but I wanted to go detecting so I headed up north to my favorite town. This is the town where I found that button from the Illinois Institute for the Deaf & Dumb a couple weeks ago. I wanted to find an example that wasn't all smashed (like the one I found). The school is still there and the building and grounds date to 1846 or so. I wasn't able to get permission to hunt the school grounds but the city said the curb strips were fair game. I hunted the curb strip right in front of the school. The strips in that town are about 25 feet wide. After 20 minutes I got a signal like an indian head cent down about 8 inches. This was my first good signal since I arrived. I dug down and out pops a button! I slowly turned it over and saw it was indeed one the buttons! What are the odds of finding the button you want on the VERY first good signal? I was gob smacked for sure.
I also detected several houses today and made several good finds. My best find of the day was a Knights Templar badge from 1895 (please see my other post). I found a nice silver plated spoon with a very decorative grape and leaves motif.
Here is some pics, thanks for looking!
Today was cold and windy but I wanted to go detecting so I headed up north to my favorite town. This is the town where I found that button from the Illinois Institute for the Deaf & Dumb a couple weeks ago. I wanted to find an example that wasn't all smashed (like the one I found). The school is still there and the building and grounds date to 1846 or so. I wasn't able to get permission to hunt the school grounds but the city said the curb strips were fair game. I hunted the curb strip right in front of the school. The strips in that town are about 25 feet wide. After 20 minutes I got a signal like an indian head cent down about 8 inches. This was my first good signal since I arrived. I dug down and out pops a button! I slowly turned it over and saw it was indeed one the buttons! What are the odds of finding the button you want on the VERY first good signal? I was gob smacked for sure.
I also detected several houses today and made several good finds. My best find of the day was a Knights Templar badge from 1895 (please see my other post). I found a nice silver plated spoon with a very decorative grape and leaves motif.
Here is some pics, thanks for looking!
