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With Tony & his dad down in Bob's area of VA., & Bob up here, I was glad to return the favor of he taking us out for Civil War stuff in VA. I told him we were gonna go for Colonial & Revolutionary stuff here.
We first crossed a river & hunted some fields Ted discovered along the ocean here. WE promiced we would just check 'em out & not clean 'em out
The first thing we noticed was the potential for indian artifacts. There was shell & worked quartz all over the first small cornfield & I picked up a broken arrowhead....
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John S. joined us for the day & worked along & in between the leftover cut cornstalks.....
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While I was digging a booming definate coin lock that tuned out to be a clad dime
Bob S. was busy digging this very cool Civil War- era rosette, which is kind of ironic since he came up for Colonial stuff Love that hat.....
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We tried several fields, & didn't find much colonial evidence...more indian evidence. I really wanted to try a Revolutionary War site in hopes Bob & all of us could scrape up a musketball or 2. On the way back to the car, we saw a gate stone sticking up & what I thought was maybe a barn foundation, or cellar hole that was filled in. John spied some old glass & then he pulls the find of the day out.....this cool boot pistol!
This is another piece that may be Civil War period as well which is sorta wierd as the plan was the Revolution
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I had found just a freakin' dime, so I was anxious to try the Revolutionary spot. Hunted for years, anything left would be deep so I put the 10.5 coil on my C$ & cranked that baby up to 10! Though I was the last one to enter the site, I was the first one to score the first Hession dropped musketball from 1778 :drunk: Bob S. followed up with one of his own right behind me. I ended up finding 5 drops in one small area.....GUT R DUN!
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Finds were slow, John did bag a neat soldiers' knee buckle before we decided to try a new permission after a Dunkin' Donuts break
This new spot we had no idea what it looked like but the landowner said we could hunt the woods he owned. Bob found a couple of fired musketballs right away. One that really gut flat by hitting something (or someone?) while I dug modern shotgun shells & gut stuck in the mud but not as bad as Tony John also got a couple fired balls, & Bob also found a nice King George II copper along a stone wall before rain drove us to the car....Here's the fired balls & the brass knee buckle frame......
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It was a fun weekend, & I should have brought my camera to URI for the Civil War muster & the gallery show. It was pretty cool...
We first crossed a river & hunted some fields Ted discovered along the ocean here. WE promiced we would just check 'em out & not clean 'em out
The first thing we noticed was the potential for indian artifacts. There was shell & worked quartz all over the first small cornfield & I picked up a broken arrowhead....[attachment 17316 brist2.jpg]
John S. joined us for the day & worked along & in between the leftover cut cornstalks.....
[attachment 17317 brist4.jpg]
While I was digging a booming definate coin lock that tuned out to be a clad dime
Bob S. was busy digging this very cool Civil War- era rosette, which is kind of ironic since he came up for Colonial stuff Love that hat.....[attachment 17318 bristRosette1.jpg]
We tried several fields, & didn't find much colonial evidence...more indian evidence. I really wanted to try a Revolutionary War site in hopes Bob & all of us could scrape up a musketball or 2. On the way back to the car, we saw a gate stone sticking up & what I thought was maybe a barn foundation, or cellar hole that was filled in. John spied some old glass & then he pulls the find of the day out.....this cool boot pistol!
This is another piece that may be Civil War period as well which is sorta wierd as the plan was the Revolution [attachment 17326 bristGun.jpg]
I had found just a freakin' dime, so I was anxious to try the Revolutionary spot. Hunted for years, anything left would be deep so I put the 10.5 coil on my C$ & cranked that baby up to 10! Though I was the last one to enter the site, I was the first one to score the first Hession dropped musketball from 1778 :drunk: Bob S. followed up with one of his own right behind me. I ended up finding 5 drops in one small area.....GUT R DUN!
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Finds were slow, John did bag a neat soldiers' knee buckle before we decided to try a new permission after a Dunkin' Donuts break
This new spot we had no idea what it looked like but the landowner said we could hunt the woods he owned. Bob found a couple of fired musketballs right away. One that really gut flat by hitting something (or someone?)
while I dug modern shotgun shells & gut stuck in the mud but not as bad as Tony John also got a couple fired balls, & Bob also found a nice King George II copper along a stone wall before rain drove us to the car....Here's the fired balls & the brass knee buckle frame......[attachment 17331 hessHole1.jpg]
It was a fun weekend, & I should have brought my camera to URI for the Civil War muster & the gallery show. It was pretty cool...
That pistol is too cool! I'd like to see that copper that Bob got too. Don't worry Bob....we left plenty of stuff in Spotsylvania County for ya!