Today was a beautiful Saturday. I did all my chores, mowed, cleaned, washed and waxed the car....ran some errands...ect.ect. SO after all the work and business was done, I had the remainder of the day for detecting. Where to go, where to go......Quite awhile ago an acquaintance spoke of an old foundation behind a newer home on a back road...he had been hunting these woods for quite awhile but said that the foundation was on private land. I never got a chance to investigate the tip off until today. I found the foundation on the map and plopped a coordinance on the closest house. BINGO! A younger couple answered the door and gave me the thumbs up....but warned me of poison ivy and ticks rofl rofl.....I find the foundation with ease. Immediately signals were popping everywhere....I swear I couldn't walk 2 ft without getting a repeatable signal. Alot of nice bottles laying on the surface, and large pieces of crock. I just had a awesome feeling about this place....the very first keeper signal was the 1855 Large Cent...I was amped. So in the few hours there I dug a nice haul of keepers but an ENORMOUS amount of 1800's trash. SO after my bug spray started to wear off I decided to do another lap and call it in.....On the way back to the opening in the woods I got a very solid signal.....4-6 inches.....I dig my plug...flip it over...and US is just staring at me with a hug smirk on it's face....MY FIRST PLATE!!! I sat in that very spot for a good 15 minutes in a stupor. I don't have many Civil War relics and I might as well start big. Thanks for lookin folks.