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<\/a><\/p>\nToday was the first full day of hunting at the site, and I managed to pull 8 coins, all of them pennies.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n
4 coppers, 2 IHs,. and 2 wheaties.\u00a0 Not the greatest pic, so it doesn’t show that the coppers aren’t as abused as what usually comes out of the ground around here.\u00a0 The dates on the largies are 1810, 1816, and 1826.\u00a0 The shield copper is a New Jersey copper, the 3rd of my career, and by far the nicest of them (tho admittedly, the front is toast).\u00a0 The IHs are also somewhat decent for around here, a 1901 and 1902.\u00a0 The wheaties are 1912 and 1944.<\/p>\n I guess that means this is a double penny trifecta.\u00a0 Whohoo!\u00a0 Those who follow me know there are only three types of coins I like to find: silvers, silvers, and well, you get it.\u00a0 But this seems actually kinda rare, 4 coppers in one day, as well as the IH’s.\u00a0 Whatever, where’s the dead zone silver?<\/p>\n The interesting thing about this hunt was that all the coins were concentrated in a very small area of the site.\u00a0 Yesterday I spent 90 minutes with only one diggable target, and today the first hour or so went by with bupkis, until I hit this hot zone, with diggable target after diggable target.<\/p>\n The site was extremely awkward — thornbushes, other bushes, downed trees, and so forth.\u00a0 It was hard detecting (and digging, thru rocks and roots), but that is the nature of colonial era sites in the woods.\u00a0 It was so grueling that I left an hour before I had to, due to burnout (imagine tight low and slow swinging thru thornbushes and downed trees in an iron infested zone, and you get the idea), but in all fairness to leaving early, I’m sick, so I just had to walk off.\u00a0 Too bad, cause the one section with all the stuff almost seemed like a virgin site,\u00a0 at least based on the run rate of diggable targets.\u00a0 I may grid that section the opposite way sometime.<\/p>\n Here are some of the relics from the hot zone —<\/p>\n A couple of buckles and a monogrammed spoon.\u00a0 I found most of the spoon, but not the middle part.\u00a0 It looks like silver, but, sadly, is base metal (prolly silver plate, actually).<\/p>\n I also found this cool whatchamacallit —<\/p>\n Its hollow thru and thru, including the bulbous part being totally hollow. I have no idea what this is, or could have been used for, but it must have been cool, given the effort to make such a thing in that era.\u00a0 If you have any clue what this thing is, please comment. (Edit: I’m told on one of my Facebook groups that: It’s the top to an 18th(?) century fireplace andiron<\/em> [sic]. I have yet to google any of that to see what it means).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had a couple of rough days in the field of the last entries, like, I didn’t find anything, like not not even junk.\u00a0 My swinging arm felt like lead.\u00a0 I decided to move on, at least temporarily, and most likely … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n