I was robbed today by a ground squirrel. Hunting an old school house location yielded me my first Indian Head, a 1904, found sitting on the top of the soil while retrieving my Lesche shovel to dig another ring (pull tab type, one of many.) I missed the thrill of the dig , and missed the 1800 club by 5 years. I'll be back.... Got a 1961 D memorial, a melted piece of lead (probably from a burned tree in a past fire) a piece of iron and twisted up, maybe, handle of a sort, a hinge (pair to a former search find added into the pic) and more nails, square and a couple of round.
Moved on to the next site, started as an early settler adobe hut, turned stage coach stop/trading post, then hotel visited by the rich and famous for the local area. There was some fresh digging to install lines so freshly dug mounds of dirt, couple of feet high, to scan over.
First find was a white marble exposed on the dirt mound halfway up, easy pickins.
Later, a piece of dug up cast iron 4" pipe looks to be the source of a mystery coin(?), too cruded over, but an exposed edge looks promising... Fingers crossed.
Next finds were a piece of pre-punched sheet metal for ??, maybe someone will recognize it.
A 44 Mag WCF casing with a larger than normal center firing pin punch mark, anyone know these?
A corroded out casing of another round.
A bullet that has a large cavity.
And now I'm off - will try some curbside hunting later for silver of sorts. HH all! Need a new hat with a drape across the neck for the next outing too!
Moved on to the next site, started as an early settler adobe hut, turned stage coach stop/trading post, then hotel visited by the rich and famous for the local area. There was some fresh digging to install lines so freshly dug mounds of dirt, couple of feet high, to scan over.
First find was a white marble exposed on the dirt mound halfway up, easy pickins.
Later, a piece of dug up cast iron 4" pipe looks to be the source of a mystery coin(?), too cruded over, but an exposed edge looks promising... Fingers crossed.
Next finds were a piece of pre-punched sheet metal for ??, maybe someone will recognize it.
A 44 Mag WCF casing with a larger than normal center firing pin punch mark, anyone know these?
A corroded out casing of another round.
A bullet that has a large cavity.
And now I'm off - will try some curbside hunting later for silver of sorts. HH all! Need a new hat with a drape across the neck for the next outing too!