I hooked up with John this weekend as he has wanted his own shot at some "Irish Shine", the rare button featured by Mark Parker in the new W&E magazine. His ancesters were Irish immigants, & I also wanted to return to the area for several reasons. One to take photo's of the nearby cemetary stones to try to trace who brought the button here through geneology sites, and also because I felt there were coins left in the ground @ this cellar hole site. Thusfar only a beat up shield nickle had surfaced. But, this site has perhaps the most iron signals of any we know of. Running all metal sounds like a machine gun, especially in the back of the hole.
Here's John finding out the hard way how tough it is to work though the heavy iron behind the Colonial cellar......
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I started out with the T2 in the front of the hole near the well where there's iron but not as thick.
My first signal getting down & dirty in the brush was a very worn down V-nickle, dated 188-something. I followed that up with this circa-1830 1 pc. button backmarked "Warrented Rich Orange". This mark became visable after a quick lemon juice soak.
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I wanted to try my a 1 tone iron setting on the T2 & went behind the foundation into the thickest iron. But it was just far to noisy, and some copper roof flashing was a real problem.
So I went back to the "front" of the home & down a cart road that next to the well. I got a strange "double beep" that usually means iron, like a bent nail, but after hearing all that iron I decided to investigate. I was surprised when I picked out a nice looking 1857 first year Flying Eagle cent in the dug dirt..
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I took some photo's like this one above and then I moved on & detected along a stone wall. I looked up & saw I had left the flyng eagle hole open so I walked back over with the detector to kick in the dirt and luckly swung over the dirt again. I got another nice coin tone in the 70's.....
There in a second dirt pile I had made was an 1870 Indian head. Cool, 2 coins in one hole.
I showed John the 2 coins & was again about to kick the dirt in but went over the hole & heard a faint singnal that jumped from the 60's to the 90's. John's Minelab he got a weak signal. I widened the hole some more and once I got more dirt out......another Indian Head, this one a good looking 1866. Now, I'm really wondering if there's more. I stick the coil in the hole & get another 70's signal. Out comes another! This a semi-key date 1872! Now I really open up the hole wide.....
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Sure enough, 2 more coin signals in the dug dirt......& 2 more Indian head's. An 1881, and an 1859 First year "fat" type. 2 of them seemed stuck together, like they were in a lost change purse or something that had since rotted away. I open the hole up even bigger & deeper to be sure there wasn't a cache of 'em or something. Here is the 6 coin small cent spill all lined up. They are uncleaned & look decent being in a sandy soil...
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When I got home & looked in my "small cents" coin folder, 4 of the half dozen spill I needed to fill holes in the book. Plus the 1857 eagle & 1872 Indian I DID have were poor shape. So, I had 6 new coins for my book.....
We worked through he iron a little more pulling out a few more relics such as a fork, musketball, suspender part, heel plate, etc......
The worn V-nickle in lower right...
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Though it rained a little, we had a fun day. I had never dug that many coins in 1 hole, & with all that excitement I never got the C$ w. small coil out of the bag......
Next time....
HH,
Bill
Here's John finding out the hard way how tough it is to work though the heavy iron behind the Colonial cellar......
[attachment 45807 WkComplexHole1.jpg]
I started out with the T2 in the front of the hole near the well where there's iron but not as thick.
My first signal getting down & dirty in the brush was a very worn down V-nickle, dated 188-something. I followed that up with this circa-1830 1 pc. button backmarked "Warrented Rich Orange". This mark became visable after a quick lemon juice soak.
[attachment 45809 WkCompFlat.jpg]
I wanted to try my a 1 tone iron setting on the T2 & went behind the foundation into the thickest iron. But it was just far to noisy, and some copper roof flashing was a real problem.
So I went back to the "front" of the home & down a cart road that next to the well. I got a strange "double beep" that usually means iron, like a bent nail, but after hearing all that iron I decided to investigate. I was surprised when I picked out a nice looking 1857 first year Flying Eagle cent in the dug dirt..
[attachment 45810 WkCompEagle.jpg]
I took some photo's like this one above and then I moved on & detected along a stone wall. I looked up & saw I had left the flyng eagle hole open so I walked back over with the detector to kick in the dirt and luckly swung over the dirt again. I got another nice coin tone in the 70's.....
There in a second dirt pile I had made was an 1870 Indian head. Cool, 2 coins in one hole.
I showed John the 2 coins & was again about to kick the dirt in but went over the hole & heard a faint singnal that jumped from the 60's to the 90's. John's Minelab he got a weak signal. I widened the hole some more and once I got more dirt out......another Indian Head, this one a good looking 1866. Now, I'm really wondering if there's more. I stick the coil in the hole & get another 70's signal. Out comes another! This a semi-key date 1872! Now I really open up the hole wide.....
[attachment 45811 WkCompSpill.jpg]
Sure enough, 2 more coin signals in the dug dirt......& 2 more Indian head's. An 1881, and an 1859 First year "fat" type. 2 of them seemed stuck together, like they were in a lost change purse or something that had since rotted away. I open the hole up even bigger & deeper to be sure there wasn't a cache of 'em or something. Here is the 6 coin small cent spill all lined up. They are uncleaned & look decent being in a sandy soil...
[attachment 45812 WkCompSpill6.jpg]
When I got home & looked in my "small cents" coin folder, 4 of the half dozen spill I needed to fill holes in the book. Plus the 1857 eagle & 1872 Indian I DID have were poor shape. So, I had 6 new coins for my book.....
We worked through he iron a little more pulling out a few more relics such as a fork, musketball, suspender part, heel plate, etc......
The worn V-nickle in lower right...
[attachment 45814 WkCompRelics.jpg]
Though it rained a little, we had a fun day. I had never dug that many coins in 1 hole, & with all that excitement I never got the C$ w. small coil out of the bag......
Next time....
HH,
Bill
From the sounds of that place, maybe you should give that C$ and small coil a workout before you write it off! Great finds guys!
. Frank
