Chefjuan
Elite Member
Such an enjoyable field hunt today. Been meaning to move on a permission I got this spring, but it's in my home town which is about an hour away. Not the quickest of locations for an afternoon hunt.
Anyway, finally managed to carve out a chunk of time this afternoon and went to work. The fields technically date well into the early 1700's and I know they have been used forever. The landowner said that I wouldn't be the first to hit them but being well used fields we all know that stuff finds it's way to the surface sooner or later...
The first area I went through was trashy ( on the corner of a 4 way intersection) but i managed to find some flat spots in the corn rows for some proper swinging and got a couple of good nice flat buttons and a broken tombac, then a MASSIVE crotal bell. That was really neat (still dings!)
Then I moved up the road a bit to a small hill where the corn had been flattened over a large area, making for ideal digging conditions. I knew that there must of been a house around there somewhere, the history I have read on that spot made it seem like a large for the time population center (probably like 50 ppl). As I was walking in i immediately hit a convex button, with a neat fingerprint design on it, too bad it's broken :/
Then the property owner pulled up and we chatted and he said that where I was used to be a row of houses! Yes! And oddly he also said that the field is "rolled" instead of tilled. Turns out that was just fine although digging in rolled soil is totally different. Anyway....
Hit a hit spot of iron and got excited then buttons started popping up everywhere. I gridded a 40'x60' area around the iron patch and then the coppers started showing... the first on out was an 1800 large cent! Yes! And a beauty. Went on to dig two more draped bust large cents (1802, 1806) and two colonial British coppers that are totally smooth unfortunately....
All said and done I got 10 buttons, a complete cuff link with initial, the 5 coppers, te usual spoon and harmonica reed, crotal bell, lantern part, beautiful buckle and a neat latch think which I hope came from a jewelry box
Here are the pics, enjoy and thanks for looking
HH,
Chef
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Anyway, finally managed to carve out a chunk of time this afternoon and went to work. The fields technically date well into the early 1700's and I know they have been used forever. The landowner said that I wouldn't be the first to hit them but being well used fields we all know that stuff finds it's way to the surface sooner or later...
The first area I went through was trashy ( on the corner of a 4 way intersection) but i managed to find some flat spots in the corn rows for some proper swinging and got a couple of good nice flat buttons and a broken tombac, then a MASSIVE crotal bell. That was really neat (still dings!)
Then I moved up the road a bit to a small hill where the corn had been flattened over a large area, making for ideal digging conditions. I knew that there must of been a house around there somewhere, the history I have read on that spot made it seem like a large for the time population center (probably like 50 ppl). As I was walking in i immediately hit a convex button, with a neat fingerprint design on it, too bad it's broken :/
Then the property owner pulled up and we chatted and he said that where I was used to be a row of houses! Yes! And oddly he also said that the field is "rolled" instead of tilled. Turns out that was just fine although digging in rolled soil is totally different. Anyway....
Hit a hit spot of iron and got excited then buttons started popping up everywhere. I gridded a 40'x60' area around the iron patch and then the coppers started showing... the first on out was an 1800 large cent! Yes! And a beauty. Went on to dig two more draped bust large cents (1802, 1806) and two colonial British coppers that are totally smooth unfortunately....
All said and done I got 10 buttons, a complete cuff link with initial, the 5 coppers, te usual spoon and harmonica reed, crotal bell, lantern part, beautiful buckle and a neat latch think which I hope came from a jewelry box
Here are the pics, enjoy and thanks for looking
HH,
Chef
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