Foiled
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My family lives on the land where our ancestors originally homesteaded in 1849 in Carroll County Illinois. Since the day I started detecting i have wanted to detect the original house that was bulldozed in the 1950's out in the bean field.
This year I finally got the chance to visit the field over Thanksgiving break. Though the fields were so rock hard i needed to literally chip my way down to targets, and the max depth i could reach mentally set at around 1-2 inches, I lasted 5 hours in the field.
Most notable was a Civil War Era Confederate Horse Buckle Shield.
My camera is terrible but here is the exact buckle i found straight from google images
http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/d/w225/m/mnsEYK7sdpB3IkRZWHi9nqQ.jpg
my question to you relic hunters (im a slowly reforming coinshooter) is any idea what this was doing in illinois? not a single battle was fought on Illinois soil and the population was very pro union.
confederate buckle? middle of a bean field 100 ft from an 1849 house? Northern illinois by the way.
edit: it is a sad day when one must eat crow. i have done more research and found it is something that is civilian not confederate.... it may date to cw period but it is in fact prob a civilian use horse buckle. however mine is polished brass which may at least suggest a bit higher quality than contemporary iron or copper pieces
This year I finally got the chance to visit the field over Thanksgiving break. Though the fields were so rock hard i needed to literally chip my way down to targets, and the max depth i could reach mentally set at around 1-2 inches, I lasted 5 hours in the field.
Most notable was a Civil War Era Confederate Horse Buckle Shield.
My camera is terrible but here is the exact buckle i found straight from google images
http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/d/w225/m/mnsEYK7sdpB3IkRZWHi9nqQ.jpg
my question to you relic hunters (im a slowly reforming coinshooter) is any idea what this was doing in illinois? not a single battle was fought on Illinois soil and the population was very pro union.
confederate buckle? middle of a bean field 100 ft from an 1849 house? Northern illinois by the way.
edit: it is a sad day when one must eat crow. i have done more research and found it is something that is civilian not confederate.... it may date to cw period but it is in fact prob a civilian use horse buckle. however mine is polished brass which may at least suggest a bit higher quality than contemporary iron or copper pieces
