RIdirtdigger
05-22-2016, 06:25 PM
What a great weekend for detecting it was. I got out for a quick evening hunt on Monday with the goal of hitting an old road. Road was a dud but I randomly went into an area that had been cleared of trees cause I was desperate and thought maybe I could pull something out of there. I see some rock piles and get a midtone next to one and expect it to be a shot gun shell. Wrong! 1858 Flying eagle cent, my 2nd of the year. Sometimes going into random places pays off. Friday Jarrod had the day off so we headed into CT to hit some cellar holes I had lined up. Took a while for us to get our coils on the ground. First patch of woods had all the walls but no sites. We moved on to another patch of woods then searched around for another cellar hole and finally found it, old site but it was hammered. Strangely enough my first two targets were a 1723 Woods Hibernia and a pewter button with shank. The Hibernia did not ring up like a normal copper in the ground but sounded normal out of the ground. Very happy to pull those out of a hammered site. Next three sites were total duds no targets at all, even the iron was dug in some spots so we decided to go back to last weeks virgin site since we were in the area. Less than 10 minutes after we arrived Jarrod had his third CT copper from that site. Very happy for him to pull that, he had been getting skunked before that. I dug some more buttons, my first ever jaws harp and pulled my first ever Native American artifact, it was in the hole with a tombac button I dug. Looks like a spear point but have no idea on the age. I would assume it is quiet ancient. Very very happy to pull that. Saturday I headed up to Massachusetts and met up with another one of my buddies Brendan. I found a patch of woods I though there was an undocumented cellar hole in and sure enough there was. He managed 1/2 a shoe buckle frame. I pulled a pewter spoon handle, a drawer pull and another copper. This copper turns out to be a 1694 William & Mary halfpenny, quite worn but you can see the two busts. Very happy to have that. Sunday I met up with Robert Steponaitis and his father Mark. The sites looked promising but they were absolutely hammered. The last site was in the middle of nowhere, no paths, very little walls but had tons of fresh dig holes, so fresh in fact that the dirt hadn't even dried out yet. My guess is someone was there either Friday or Satruday. They also cleared out some of the overgrowth around the hole and cleared out almost all the finds. I managed a half a shoe buckle frame and a pistol ball. I did pull my first ever saddle shield today so that was cool. Overall it was a fun weekend and I had a great time with everyone I detected with!