a few finds today

[gxray]

today i hunted in a friend's yard ...he owns an 1880's Greek revival house near the railroad. Found a 3-ringer , 1897 indian head penny , 1943 mercury dime, a fired bullet (smaller caliber), a few memorial pennies and a few whatsits. My friend also found a 3 ringer. Later i stopped by another buddy's house , who with a friend of his had been hunting today too(they are both novices with about 3 weeks experience hunting relics)....i showed them my finds for the day and one of them asked me to look at a button he had found. At first glance i said " nice flower button" but upon closer examination , I said holy sh*$t do you know what this is?....he replied " no " ....I said , "This is a silver plated NC sunburst button...the face of one without the back anyways"...he was so excited that he had found a confederate button...I was too....I asked him where he found it and he said he found it in the field i had hunted the other day in Bentonville. Anyways , looks like we will be back there tomorrow.

 

[brnn53]

Nice finds! Is that a lead pencil?
Mike

 

[GRAY GHOST]

good digs, gx. it looks like that field might hold some interesting stuff! silver is always good! nice confederate buttons are getting hard to find. hh!

 

[gxray]

I dont think it is a lead pencil. there is no hole at the point ,,,perhaps the cap of a pen or something.

 

[johnreb1980]

n/t

 

[RelicDigger1]

Nice digs, GX. Always good to find relics. Your friend's NC starburst is a one piece button so it won't have a back. The shanks were brittle so finding one with a shank is fairly uncommon. But, heck, these days, finding a CS button is getting to be uncommon.

Nice digging!

Richard