THE 1824 HOUSE, YARD OF FIRSTS!
My favorite spot would have to be the tiny 1824 house I got permission to hunt. It has been hit once before but obviously they didn't do to good of a job! I've been there 6 times in about 6 weeks and it's paid off highly! Owners are real nice people as well, I was able to donate a handful of relics to the owners that show what people of previous generations lost at the house and what type of activity went on at this house such as a skeleton key, child's toys, lock, buttons, and a civil war bullet. This was the house of "firsts" as I got MANY of those while I was there.
On day one I was able to determine the yard was NOT filled in and I managed to pull out some period finds, including my first two-cent piece, first gardener bullet, a real nice brass skeleton key and a matron head large cent ! This really got me excited for day two... most of those finds were later in the hunt when I found the "hot-spot". On day two, I really was focusing on gridding the LEFT side of the front yard, where I pulled the matron, two-center, and gardener. I gridded it from a different direction and went really slow. My first find that day was a beat 1865 indian head and then... BAM!!! A huge "first" for me!!! My FIRST 1700s silver, first reale, first pistareen, first cut silver, first cut reale, first colonial silver, and oldest coin yet!!!!! I was dazed the whole hunt after that... but still managed to pull out my first shield nickel!!! Then... unbelievably my last target of the night... was... a SOLID GOLD... pocket watch winder/key. My best day metal detecting yet at that point!!! My third day there was even better man... I didn't know it was possible but IT GOT EVEN BETTER!!! I stopped playing around with the left side of the front yard and headed for the right side. My first target is a toy soldier... second... AMAZING 1878 indian, I got some other semi-key date indian head "firsts" as well on this day. My next target after that indian head was my FIRST TRIME, 1853!!! Again, I was shaking the rest of the hunt... but not long after I get another signal and it's a SEATED DIME! My FIRST!!! 1886. Unbelievable day I've had thus far... next target was a V NICKEL... unbelievable but this was ANOTHER FIRST!!! -- 1900. Then I get a musketball and another confederate bullet. Then... believe it or not... a eagle coat button surfaces!!! again, another first!!! Then a gold plated bracelet, a couple flat buttons and by then it's almost time to go... BAM!!! LIGHTNING STRIKES!!! A got an 81 signal and I freakin' dig a SPANISH DOLLAR! 1790 HALF OF AN 8 REALE, "is this hunt 4 reale???" LOL, another first. AMAZING DAY!!! By then I was running to the car cause I had to go by then!!! I almost crapped my pants!!! I go back a few days later and I hope to find at least a couple more old relics or coins, to pick something out from where I dug before. I end up getting an AMAZING 1869 indian in AU (dug though) and a CAPPED BUST HALF DIME !!!! My first!!!! :lolsign: then the finds started deteriorating but on my last hunts I got a few more buttons, a 1851 large cent, 1903 dog tag (my oldest!) and a few other odds and ends. Over all was a freakin' awesome property!!!
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first two cent piece, large cent, vintage jewelry and nice relics! Sunday
*CUT SPANISH SILVER, first shield nickel, and OLD GOLD*
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