6 Hours worth and a lot of pics...

[Bavaria Mike]

Got about six hours of detecting last week between renovating a room and working for a living. Had a special hunt with my Archaeologist friend Sunday for about 2 hours in an area where he found a nice Stone Age arrow head with a broken tip. He found a nice stone musket ball from Medieval times, no picture, and I found a small blue glass bead on the surface 300-700 years old maybe and an 1863 silver coin with the detector. My Archie friend sure was interested in the detector but wouldn

 

[Tony (NC)]

I was typing that one in the search engine when I realized that's Old Man What's his faces' boy. Mystery solved. Great bunch of finds. That lead seal looks kinda interesting too.

 

[-=john=-LexKy]

very nice mix of stuff.

I found one of those French buttons in my brother's yard in Nashville, Tennessee years ago. Still wondering if the Civil War soldiers had it somehow.

Here's the info on it I found:

an 1852-70 French military
"Household Corps of the Emperor" (Cent Guarde, Maison Militaire
de L'Empereur) button. You'll find it listed in the section
of French military buttons in Hughes & Lester's The Big Book
of Buttons, and in the "France 1848-1872" section of
The Emilio Collection of Military Buttons by Luis F. Emilio.

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my backmark says:
"L'Entier"

A B

Bte S.G.D.G. PARIS

which means Entirety Patented without guarantee of the
government Paris

Let me know if your back mark matches this please.

-=john=-

 

[Bill Ladd]

those crosses look pretty early too.......who needs Colchester?

 

[Bavaria Mike]

n/t

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Says PARIS on the back but I can't make out the few other letters due to a thick patina over them. American heritage really shows through when digging up history! HH, Mike