Trooper Bri
11-17-2015, 08:52 PM
First of all, I love switching from my V3i to the plain MXT. So fast and simple, I love it for cellar hole hunts. I finally tossed my D2 coil on it for this weekend's hunts.
Dan and I got started early Saturday morning. He wanted to return to the cabin site we finished at last weekend since it was popping finds. I did too. There's a lot of mountain laurel to work around the site as well.
He started at one end of the property, and I poked around for maybe 15 minutes until the stone pile called to me. 1'st target was big, and knew it was iron, and wasn't disappointed. It was an iron. No pics but a candidate for electrolysis, it got carried out.
Poked around the stone pile more and was getting the occasional 30's tone in the iron junk. Start digging nails and the numbers kept coming up. A bit more digging and there's a copper! It's mostly flaked off on it's own, what's left is stubborn, but I'll have a clean Classic Head LC when it's done. I can see 181 on the date so far.
51465
51466
I'm very happy, pressure is off early. I get back to beating up around the stone pile in the mountain laurel and a couple minutes and 5ft from the LC dig comes a solid 70's tone. Whoa...
A nail or two comes up, but below is another copper! Looks to be a crusty KG2. Tough to tell for sure. I haven't had time to play with the coins yet.
51467
I get back to working the heck out of the cabin site, but that appears to have been it. I wander away after a while, get into the mountain laurel, go exploring a bit, but it got quiet. Think I found one more tombac. We called it quits after a while and headed to spot #2.
A bit of poking around and we find the cellar hole. Looks like it got pushed around a bit, and had some trash here and there. I stuck with the plan and worked the lip area of the site. Nothing spectacular. Buckle fragments, a couple buttons, and my 1'st cufflink (part of one). Little octagon shaped one with a faint sunburst pattern. We stuck with that a bit longer and moved onto site #3.
It's a place that's coughed up finds over the years, but is beat up now. I wandered in the fields for a bit, but it was quiet, so I zeroed in on the cellar hole. I dug a lot of tin and iron, but finally got rewarded just inside the lip of the hole next to a tree. Pull up a few nails, and up comes copper #3! Looks to be a KG1 perhaps. It's not in the best shape either.
51468
Worked around the site until the sun was touching the hills, and we called it quits. Real windy, but a great autumn day to be out hunting with Dan! I'll post up Sunday's adventure tomorrow.
51469
Dan and I got started early Saturday morning. He wanted to return to the cabin site we finished at last weekend since it was popping finds. I did too. There's a lot of mountain laurel to work around the site as well.
He started at one end of the property, and I poked around for maybe 15 minutes until the stone pile called to me. 1'st target was big, and knew it was iron, and wasn't disappointed. It was an iron. No pics but a candidate for electrolysis, it got carried out.
Poked around the stone pile more and was getting the occasional 30's tone in the iron junk. Start digging nails and the numbers kept coming up. A bit more digging and there's a copper! It's mostly flaked off on it's own, what's left is stubborn, but I'll have a clean Classic Head LC when it's done. I can see 181 on the date so far.
51465
51466
I'm very happy, pressure is off early. I get back to beating up around the stone pile in the mountain laurel and a couple minutes and 5ft from the LC dig comes a solid 70's tone. Whoa...
A nail or two comes up, but below is another copper! Looks to be a crusty KG2. Tough to tell for sure. I haven't had time to play with the coins yet.
51467
I get back to working the heck out of the cabin site, but that appears to have been it. I wander away after a while, get into the mountain laurel, go exploring a bit, but it got quiet. Think I found one more tombac. We called it quits after a while and headed to spot #2.
A bit of poking around and we find the cellar hole. Looks like it got pushed around a bit, and had some trash here and there. I stuck with the plan and worked the lip area of the site. Nothing spectacular. Buckle fragments, a couple buttons, and my 1'st cufflink (part of one). Little octagon shaped one with a faint sunburst pattern. We stuck with that a bit longer and moved onto site #3.
It's a place that's coughed up finds over the years, but is beat up now. I wandered in the fields for a bit, but it was quiet, so I zeroed in on the cellar hole. I dug a lot of tin and iron, but finally got rewarded just inside the lip of the hole next to a tree. Pull up a few nails, and up comes copper #3! Looks to be a KG1 perhaps. It's not in the best shape either.
51468
Worked around the site until the sun was touching the hills, and we called it quits. Real windy, but a great autumn day to be out hunting with Dan! I'll post up Sunday's adventure tomorrow.
51469