Oblivious to the snow

[bearbqd]

Went out after work today. It had started to snow for the past hour and continued getting heavier while I was out. Once I got to my planned site, I was oblivious to the heavy snow now falling around me. I gotta hunt this place for months. It's way cool. It's a mostly burned down 1800's mansion with out buildings. I was getting underneath stair cases and looking behind fireplaces and brick walls.                                                          I got filthy, but had a blast. Found this cool button backing that says Treble Gilt Standard Colour and has a miniature eagle version of what I assume the front part looked like. Too bad it wasn't a whole piece. I wish I could get a better close up of it, but I guess I gotta wait until I get my good camera.
I also found this piece of clay pipe in the same hole with the button. Found the neat little bottle (3 1/2 inches tall) in a hole along an out building foundation where I dug a double headed axe too.
Last but not least, found this awesome animal claw or fang in a hole I was digging. I think it must belong to a large cat, but more likely a bear. SHweet! Also found numerous bone pieces in the button hole along with an oyster shell.
I finely couldn't feel my hands and decided to call it quits. Haven't found any old coins yet, but I'm very confident this site has got to have some.

 

[bearbqd]

Here's the Fang Tooth

 

[bearbqd]

Thanks epi. Yeah, I am pretty lucky in the sites I have to choose from. I'm gonna have to start writing them all down so I won't forget any. I ,too, love investigating old houses; always have. I found a shot gun in one house when I was a kid. Wrapped it in a blanket and rode my bike home with it. Even got passed by a cop who had to have thought that looked pretty suspicious, lol.
I got a lead on another potential site from a friend at work who is also getting a detector, one of the new imaging coil Garretts. He has an older friend at church who has about 500 acres of land with, he thinks, about 7 remnants of colonial houses. He's gonna ask if we can detect there too. Also, have an 1800's house just down the road from where I work I'm gonna ask about. This place is known to be haunted and it's basement was a civil war hospital. THat's where all the activity is heard. Someone was living there for a little while, but I think the spooks chased them out too. It's gated with no trespassing sign and I don't see cars there anymore lately. It has very old out buildings too.
So much to hunt, so little time.
I'll take pictures of this place next time.

 

[ksdiver]

Nice finds bearbqd. It started snowing here in PA around 3:00 PM - I wanted to get out today before the snow but had too many things to do.

I have a bottle very simular to the one you found - some kind of medicine I assume. I found mine in a dump that dates back to the turn of the century.

 

[TerryEastTexas]

Very interesting. Sounds like a great place. Good luck in the future.