My Best Relic Find

[bigfootokie]

I've had the opportunity in the last 5 weeks to hunt an amazing spot 4 different times which has givin up a lot of mid 1800's military relics. These are VERY unusual and rarely found relics in my part of the country and I feel very privileged to have been able to make these finds. I have always wanted to find a personal item from a CW era soldier and now I have made a recovery that is better than what I could imagine.

This is a hand carved "Grizzly Bear Head" fashioned from a bullet or "camp lead". This relic is one of my top 5 finds in my 44 years of detecting.

These pics are from the same hunt. The far right cone shaped find is part of a coffee bean grinder. Thought that was pretty cool too.

Thanks for looking!

 

[Deusdigger]

Great finds, thanks for sharing.

 

[JohnTN]

Super sweet relics my friend. I see in your screen name it says okie. I was born and raised an okie. I didn't realize there was any CW activity in Oklahoma.

 

[bigfootokie]

There was a lot more than most people realize, but there was a lot of military activity before, during and after the CW that was related to Indian activity since this was all Indian Territory. Some very interesting reading if you ever get the time to research the "Indian Wars".

Jim