MangoAve
10-22-2015, 12:48 PM
It is a bit amazing how my oldest dateable copper was a 1787 CT as the first LC I found sometime last year. Now within a week my oldest find goes to a KG2 old bust (1740-1760) and then to a KG2 young bust. We all ended up walking away with coppers yesterday.
The site we hit actually turned out to be a bit tough for me for some reason. There was a bunch of buttons getting pulled up right away and a copper too right away. The most I got up until 1p was the tooth to a buckle. A nice ornate complete buckle had come up before then already. My piece was a turd trying to pinpoint. It moved places about four times before I finally found it. I did point out to Dan a depression that was different than a nearby depression that was made with a bucket loader. I had gone around the back of it noting all the iron and the large overload signals. It looks like there was trash thrown there and the structure collapsed backwards. Near where someone dug a target I managed to find a really small button like piece The button like things look like they are three piece and are riveted (as such with button snaps or things on jeans. For some reason tho it looks like there is an iron center piece.
I was scouring around not hearing more than a few pockets of iron and then a few sporadic iron hits. I came back to the spot behind the structure and found my first copper... a 1935 wheat. Lol. Then I found another small button like piece, and the three darn washers. I wonder how the first person through there missed those coin shaped washers. Finally I pull up a button. A quick glance and it looks like its got a lot of gilt left. And monogrammed. Yeah, for someone named Wrangler. :girlcry::disgusted:
Around the side of the structure (possibly a carriage house) there was some nearby junk someone looked like they moved. If you recollect moving some aluminum trim pieces, you missed my first LC there (second copper..lol). It was ringing like a perfect dime signal. It might be a smoothie, but it is really thick. I took a pic after a hot peroxide bath. The front doesn't show much. The back almost looks like there is a woman there. But it doesn't look like Britannia. Idk.. There was a side by side to the KG2.
I did score a tiny buckle there and a weird piece of pewter. Dan noticed it looks almost like there is a hook to the back of it. I'll let Bri and Dan and Tim post about their finds, but I will say idk how the second to last copper that came up was missed until then. I even moved this huge rotted branch maybe 15 ft away. I think I went around the base of the tree and continued, completely missing the obvious spot out in the open.
After we were getting ready to leave and we took the remembrance, I turned on the machine for a quick look while we were waiting for Tim. Dan and Bri were talking while I went. Within two min when I headed away from them toward the road I pick up the last copper of the day. That now became my oldest dateable copper at 1734. It could possibly be 1736 if some of those dates have the '6' with a flat back. I did write in the numbers on a pic to show what it really looks like. Either date, makes it my oldest so far and the oldest one found yesterday.
At the end we did get confronted twice. Maybe one of those present yesterday wants to elaborate. Lol. No Drew sighting, but at least two Ox Shoes did come up.
The big iron handle like piece looks like it might be broken on one side and was something like a handle to a cooking pot. There was some odd ornate disk thing there too. It was an overload on the surface with no digging required; I just wanted to move it due to any masking. But it is cool looking with a wreath pattern. It looks like there is a hinge to open it.
Congrats to Dan, Bri, and Tim at scoring coppers and thanks for having me along. Timmeh, nice to meet you and now you finally have your taste of cellar hole hunting. You passed the class with those nice tombacs from this week. BTW.... USE THAT NEL COIL, esp at sites like a cellar hole. I guarantee you will find more targets near iron. Dan/Bri, let's do it again sometime.
OH... and to just plain Dan. I don't think my discrimination is too high. I hear the iron blips and flasing with this machine. The reason I rebut what you said is that the tiny cuff button I got a month back along with the infantry button and third button in a walk path I determined.. It did sound like iron a few times. I was hearing it sound the majority of the time in the low VDI non-ferrous range, sometimes as high as 23, but every few swings was iron. That being said, I just didn't get the coil in the spots for finding buttons yesterday. Esp after you guys scoffed them all up, there was no way I was gonna find any after you guys checked the spots they would be. Maybe the above reference to the tiny button like pieces with some iron backs-up my explanation.
Now For pics.
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The site we hit actually turned out to be a bit tough for me for some reason. There was a bunch of buttons getting pulled up right away and a copper too right away. The most I got up until 1p was the tooth to a buckle. A nice ornate complete buckle had come up before then already. My piece was a turd trying to pinpoint. It moved places about four times before I finally found it. I did point out to Dan a depression that was different than a nearby depression that was made with a bucket loader. I had gone around the back of it noting all the iron and the large overload signals. It looks like there was trash thrown there and the structure collapsed backwards. Near where someone dug a target I managed to find a really small button like piece The button like things look like they are three piece and are riveted (as such with button snaps or things on jeans. For some reason tho it looks like there is an iron center piece.
I was scouring around not hearing more than a few pockets of iron and then a few sporadic iron hits. I came back to the spot behind the structure and found my first copper... a 1935 wheat. Lol. Then I found another small button like piece, and the three darn washers. I wonder how the first person through there missed those coin shaped washers. Finally I pull up a button. A quick glance and it looks like its got a lot of gilt left. And monogrammed. Yeah, for someone named Wrangler. :girlcry::disgusted:
Around the side of the structure (possibly a carriage house) there was some nearby junk someone looked like they moved. If you recollect moving some aluminum trim pieces, you missed my first LC there (second copper..lol). It was ringing like a perfect dime signal. It might be a smoothie, but it is really thick. I took a pic after a hot peroxide bath. The front doesn't show much. The back almost looks like there is a woman there. But it doesn't look like Britannia. Idk.. There was a side by side to the KG2.
I did score a tiny buckle there and a weird piece of pewter. Dan noticed it looks almost like there is a hook to the back of it. I'll let Bri and Dan and Tim post about their finds, but I will say idk how the second to last copper that came up was missed until then. I even moved this huge rotted branch maybe 15 ft away. I think I went around the base of the tree and continued, completely missing the obvious spot out in the open.
After we were getting ready to leave and we took the remembrance, I turned on the machine for a quick look while we were waiting for Tim. Dan and Bri were talking while I went. Within two min when I headed away from them toward the road I pick up the last copper of the day. That now became my oldest dateable copper at 1734. It could possibly be 1736 if some of those dates have the '6' with a flat back. I did write in the numbers on a pic to show what it really looks like. Either date, makes it my oldest so far and the oldest one found yesterday.
At the end we did get confronted twice. Maybe one of those present yesterday wants to elaborate. Lol. No Drew sighting, but at least two Ox Shoes did come up.
The big iron handle like piece looks like it might be broken on one side and was something like a handle to a cooking pot. There was some odd ornate disk thing there too. It was an overload on the surface with no digging required; I just wanted to move it due to any masking. But it is cool looking with a wreath pattern. It looks like there is a hinge to open it.
Congrats to Dan, Bri, and Tim at scoring coppers and thanks for having me along. Timmeh, nice to meet you and now you finally have your taste of cellar hole hunting. You passed the class with those nice tombacs from this week. BTW.... USE THAT NEL COIL, esp at sites like a cellar hole. I guarantee you will find more targets near iron. Dan/Bri, let's do it again sometime.
OH... and to just plain Dan. I don't think my discrimination is too high. I hear the iron blips and flasing with this machine. The reason I rebut what you said is that the tiny cuff button I got a month back along with the infantry button and third button in a walk path I determined.. It did sound like iron a few times. I was hearing it sound the majority of the time in the low VDI non-ferrous range, sometimes as high as 23, but every few swings was iron. That being said, I just didn't get the coil in the spots for finding buttons yesterday. Esp after you guys scoffed them all up, there was no way I was gonna find any after you guys checked the spots they would be. Maybe the above reference to the tiny button like pieces with some iron backs-up my explanation.
Now For pics.
50811507995080950810508055080650807508085080050802 50812508045080350801