Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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[size=large]I'm no expert on belt plates, but that could have been CS (Confederate States) belt plate. The picture below is the belt plate hooks I found yesterday. I went back to where I found it and started searching in a tight pattern 360* for 50 feet out from that spot. I covered every square inch of it twice, 2 hours detecting... to no avail. I talked to the lady that owns the land, she said it was all cornfields for years and years until her husband died 14 years ago. She said it had been plowed and disked every year since 1945 when they bought the property. So the chances of it being in one piece without the lead in it would be slim.[/size]
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[size=large]So to try and pull a rabbit out of the hat, I went to the side of the road hoping to make a couple of good finds and not come away empty handed. Dug a couple pieces of shredded pop can, and got this good signal; VDI'd around 42, approx. 5" deep. I saw the back of a button in the hole; turned it over and saw a Confederate lined I button (closeup photo below). YEEEHAW! Now there's what I'm talking about! These buttons (lined I's) were made in England for the Confederacy; English buttons were far superior quality-wise to anything the south was making. As you can see, it has a slight push, but I can live with it. [/size]
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[size=large]Continued detecting and got a bullet and the finds below, all within 10 minutes. Look at all that leather still attached to the rivet. I got 2 sections like that. By the time I got home, the first section had dried out and disintigrated, so the other section I soaked in olive oil. Just hope it holds together until I get it in the relic box. The tag is a Virginia dog tag, 1923... yeah, its not Civil War, but its a lot better than a horse buckle.
Anybody have an idea what that thing on the top is? I have found about six of them over the years. I always find them at old sites, I think its an 1800's cap of some sort. All the ones I've found have been about the same size, but the style may vary slightly. There are fine threads up inside the neck for screwing it on something. Any ideas?
Vernon [/size]
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[size=large]So to try and pull a rabbit out of the hat, I went to the side of the road hoping to make a couple of good finds and not come away empty handed. Dug a couple pieces of shredded pop can, and got this good signal; VDI'd around 42, approx. 5" deep. I saw the back of a button in the hole; turned it over and saw a Confederate lined I button (closeup photo below). YEEEHAW! Now there's what I'm talking about! These buttons (lined I's) were made in England for the Confederacy; English buttons were far superior quality-wise to anything the south was making. As you can see, it has a slight push, but I can live with it. [/size]
[attachment 91908 Ibuttondug.jpg]
[attachment 91911 Cose-upbutton.jpg]
[attachment 91909 bullet.jpg]
[size=large]Continued detecting and got a bullet and the finds below, all within 10 minutes. Look at all that leather still attached to the rivet. I got 2 sections like that. By the time I got home, the first section had dried out and disintigrated, so the other section I soaked in olive oil. Just hope it holds together until I get it in the relic box. The tag is a Virginia dog tag, 1923... yeah, its not Civil War, but its a lot better than a horse buckle.
Anybody have an idea what that thing on the top is? I have found about six of them over the years. I always find them at old sites, I think its an 1800's cap of some sort. All the ones I've found have been about the same size, but the style may vary slightly. There are fine threads up inside the neck for screwing it on something. Any ideas?
Vernon [/size]
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