bearbqd
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Through yonder woods, the silent deep. In nearby graves, the soldiers sleep. Through beckon calls, my detector beeps. And "Oh yeah, I got here in a Jeep!"
Back to that beep. I've pulled a few weird things out of this stretch of woods, including that door knocker looking thing with the guy in shackles. Today was just as strange. I found a piece of ground that has a good length of old trash dump/ fire pit. I started pulling out some melted lead and other melted metal. Just about every shovel full of dirt has broken china and very old bottle pieces in it. I had just fished out some of that metal from a hole when I see a little silvery disk amongst the dirt. Turns out its an 1889 Seated liberty Dime. Sweet! Not in great shape but its neat that I first found a merc dime here, then a Barber, and now this. Am I going to pull out a Flowing hair next? I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Well, I start on about my fifth signal and this bronze square pops out about the size of a graham cracker square. I flip it over, brush off some of the dirt and there's a Pharoah staring at me. "What in the world??" It looks to be some decorative piece off of a piece of furniture or something. I know Egyptian culture was popular after King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. I wish I knew what it came from. I eventually found more silver in this small area-- the silver disk with readed edges in the one pic. I think it used to be a silver Washington quarter or Standing Liberty. The front and back bubbled from fire and no features are discernible.
The pic with the multiple items is from some of the 3000 acre property owned by the quarry that I have permission to hunt. Its all from an old farm there. Found my first musket butt plate in that pic. Not sure if its civil war or not. There was an encampment not far from there which leads me to the two civil war buttons. I found a little area near the back of the encampment where bulldozers had pushed up a couple of dump truck's worth of dirt in a mound years ago. There are little scrub trees on it and such. I found the eagle button on top of this mound. I started finding other old things including a lantern top, a 1906 indian head penny, and a harmonica read. As I made my way almost completely around the mound I got another good signal. Out pops a large Virginia Staff Officers button! Holy cow, my third state button in a couple of months and this one five feet from the Union Eagle button. I think only a Union Camp was supposedly here so I don't know if an unknown confederate camp was here, or maybe that came off of a prisoner. I thought, " Wow, if this stuff is on top of the mound, what else may be in there?" Needless to say, I started excavating the mound and plan on leveling it to the ground to see what else may be hiding in there.
Oh yeah, the lantern part also came from the King Tut area. It seriously has TWO wicks! I've never seen anything like it.
Sorry this is so long, but all this stuff is from three or four different hunts.
Oh yeah, as for the little heart locket ( actually its pretty beefy), I can't get it open but I can see in it enough to see that there is a gold colored disk in there but looks to have some plating flaking off so I don't think it's a coin. I don't want to destroy the locket by busting it open, but I'd like to know what that is too.
Back to that beep. I've pulled a few weird things out of this stretch of woods, including that door knocker looking thing with the guy in shackles. Today was just as strange. I found a piece of ground that has a good length of old trash dump/ fire pit. I started pulling out some melted lead and other melted metal. Just about every shovel full of dirt has broken china and very old bottle pieces in it. I had just fished out some of that metal from a hole when I see a little silvery disk amongst the dirt. Turns out its an 1889 Seated liberty Dime. Sweet! Not in great shape but its neat that I first found a merc dime here, then a Barber, and now this. Am I going to pull out a Flowing hair next? I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Well, I start on about my fifth signal and this bronze square pops out about the size of a graham cracker square. I flip it over, brush off some of the dirt and there's a Pharoah staring at me. "What in the world??" It looks to be some decorative piece off of a piece of furniture or something. I know Egyptian culture was popular after King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. I wish I knew what it came from. I eventually found more silver in this small area-- the silver disk with readed edges in the one pic. I think it used to be a silver Washington quarter or Standing Liberty. The front and back bubbled from fire and no features are discernible.
The pic with the multiple items is from some of the 3000 acre property owned by the quarry that I have permission to hunt. Its all from an old farm there. Found my first musket butt plate in that pic. Not sure if its civil war or not. There was an encampment not far from there which leads me to the two civil war buttons. I found a little area near the back of the encampment where bulldozers had pushed up a couple of dump truck's worth of dirt in a mound years ago. There are little scrub trees on it and such. I found the eagle button on top of this mound. I started finding other old things including a lantern top, a 1906 indian head penny, and a harmonica read. As I made my way almost completely around the mound I got another good signal. Out pops a large Virginia Staff Officers button! Holy cow, my third state button in a couple of months and this one five feet from the Union Eagle button. I think only a Union Camp was supposedly here so I don't know if an unknown confederate camp was here, or maybe that came off of a prisoner. I thought, " Wow, if this stuff is on top of the mound, what else may be in there?" Needless to say, I started excavating the mound and plan on leveling it to the ground to see what else may be hiding in there.
Oh yeah, the lantern part also came from the King Tut area. It seriously has TWO wicks! I've never seen anything like it.
Sorry this is so long, but all this stuff is from three or four different hunts.
Oh yeah, as for the little heart locket ( actually its pretty beefy), I can't get it open but I can see in it enough to see that there is a gold colored disk in there but looks to have some plating flaking off so I don't think it's a coin. I don't want to destroy the locket by busting it open, but I'd like to know what that is too.
