strirrup spur and silver.it was a great 4th.

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I dug a piece of a stirrup a few weeks back pictured in with yesterdays finds
So of course it was a great sunday morning so I went back to the area I dug the spur .
Not many signals im figuring this place has either been hit before or the people that owned the property were very tidy lol.
First signal was my second silver spoon bout an hour into the hunt I hit the spoon but it was jumpy from dime to quarter to half dollar but the signal was strong so I dug.
Second target was a piece of a toy car im guessing a 1930s roadster .
Wasnt gettn much for the next hour so I moved to a different area on the property.
And about ten minutes of swinging I hit another jumpy but repeatable signal at 6 inches .
I dug down in the orange clay and immediately saw a beautiful white patinad williams cleaner .that had me stoked .
A few more hours went by with a couple rusty crusty signals like the long iron hooked thing any ideas what it us guys ?
Finally at the end of the hunt I got a 92 93 on the vdi it was kina faint but it said 6 inches deep .
I dug and nothing .I thought it was a false signal or a big piece of iron.
But somthing told me dig deeper , not sure why but I just said screw it and dug another 6 or so .altogether im guessing it was at least a foot or more deep .I'm glad the whites picked it up but im wondering why it gave a false depth and said six when it was much deeper.
Put my pin pointer in and there was something there .
I moved dirt with my hand and saw green patina.
So I knew it wasnt iron .
Still couldnt tell what it was and not wanting to damage it with my shovel I backed up and dug a wider area .to make a long story short out popped this cool old brass stirrup .im thinking civil war era but you know we all hope our finds are lol but who knows the spur could be from the 1960's for all I know lol
2 weeks ago I dug the spur piece roughly 10 feet away.
Last dig was this crusty pistol feom the weight I would say it was real .
It was about 6 or so inches deep normally i bus my trash finds but this unwanted dig I covered it back up and kept moving.
 

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great digs +1 go to the Treasure Depot forum on the relic hunters site and post the pictures. those guys are the experts on stirrups and spurs and bullets. ya might be on a phenominal site... go there and show and ask.. it will be worth it.
 
Let's us look at the base of that cleaner bullet buddy. Show a pic of it. It may be a Gardiner explosive in the .54" type. I hope so for your sake. There very rare. Nice everything buddy. HH
 
Great finds bud! That is THE nicest stirrup I've seen posted on here.

The spur I found was broken too, but was verified by CW expert as CW issue. Here's a pic of mine, as I said it was broken too unfortunately. Probably THE favorite find in my collection.

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Thanks everybody for the nice compliments.
Funny thing is I got a few cool digs but man if you could see the pile of trash I dug its like a mountain compated to a ant hill lol.
But it was worth it cuz I picked up a few cool relics.
Once again thanks guys for the nice compliments .
Hh yall.
 
Just an FYI

The bullet is a .54 Sharps & Hankins bullet. The Wolfman named it right.

I dug 7 of these bullets years ago in White Sulfur Springs, WV. The ground was so rocky where I found them that the bullets were all dinged up. ...dang! I can only assume that the soldiers waked all over the bullets after they were dropped; smashing them into the rocky soil. It was a camp area, so that was kind of an assumption.

I dug a breast plate that day which made me very happy. We drove back the next week from Tidewater, VA. and they had a bad freeze that we didn't even consider. The ground was so frozen that we tore out Leeche shovel blades up trying to dig targets.
 
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