Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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Got permission to detect an old stage stop dating back to the mid-1700's. This place supposedly saw troops from both the Revolutionary War, and the war of 1812. Judging by the 4 military crest pins I found today, I believe it.
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This is all that's left of the stage station, a rectangular pile of stones overgrown with briars with a sunken hole in the middle, full of water. There's a couple of other stone foundations that can be seen nearby. Other than a few shotgun shells, everything I dug was a relic. Several plow points were heaved over in the woods, as well as broken iron pot lids, broken iron pots, etc.
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Dug this flat button as soon as I got out of the truck, 2 feet from my truck door. The day turned out to be a flat button haven.
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This is one of the four military pins that I found. I believe these to be either Revolutionary, or War of 1812, era. Unfortunately, I can see nothing as far as a regimental number, or any markings. I believe they were simply painted.
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This is the front of one of the pins. Pretty nice pin, actually, with beveled edges.
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Finally, after about an hour and a half, I got a good signal and dug this 1838 large cent... made my day. Also dug another little realed edged coin or token. You can see it in the photograph of the small coin with a square in the middle. There's a date of 1872 on it, and it has English writing... I believe it may be a trade token.
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Here's most of the finds for the day. I know I could go back tomorrow and dig this much or more, I've hardly touched this place. When things start to slow up on the hill top, I'll head down to the river bottom where the stage crossed the river, and see what I can find down there. There was also an old graveyard there (hey, I can only post six pictures). Nine of the graves had simply a stone marker that was stuck in the ground. There was one marked grave there of a soldier who was in the Revolutionary War who died in 1821. I may post a few more pictures to the responses.
All in all, a pretty good day, I thought. Beats digging clads in a park!
Vernon
[attachment 45907 hilltop.jpg]
This is all that's left of the stage station, a rectangular pile of stones overgrown with briars with a sunken hole in the middle, full of water. There's a couple of other stone foundations that can be seen nearby. Other than a few shotgun shells, everything I dug was a relic. Several plow points were heaved over in the woods, as well as broken iron pot lids, broken iron pots, etc.
[attachment 45908 Flatbutton.jpg]
Dug this flat button as soon as I got out of the truck, 2 feet from my truck door. The day turned out to be a flat button haven.
[attachment 45909 pinbadge.jpg]
This is one of the four military pins that I found. I believe these to be either Revolutionary, or War of 1812, era. Unfortunately, I can see nothing as far as a regimental number, or any markings. I believe they were simply painted.
[attachment 45910 Pinfront.jpg]
This is the front of one of the pins. Pretty nice pin, actually, with beveled edges.
[attachment 45911 1838Largecent.jpg]
Finally, after about an hour and a half, I got a good signal and dug this 1838 large cent... made my day. Also dug another little realed edged coin or token. You can see it in the photograph of the small coin with a square in the middle. There's a date of 1872 on it, and it has English writing... I believe it may be a trade token.
[attachment 45912 digs.jpg]
Here's most of the finds for the day. I know I could go back tomorrow and dig this much or more, I've hardly touched this place. When things start to slow up on the hill top, I'll head down to the river bottom where the stage crossed the river, and see what I can find down there. There was also an old graveyard there (hey, I can only post six pictures). Nine of the graves had simply a stone marker that was stuck in the ground. There was one marked grave there of a soldier who was in the Revolutionary War who died in 1821. I may post a few more pictures to the responses.
All in all, a pretty good day, I thought. Beats digging clads in a park!
Vernon
