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Recent hunts....

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Chris in Hamilton (Canada)

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Haven't had a lot of time to post lately. Still working a lot of overtime and helping my mother at the farm. Any spare time has been spent detecting :)

Two weeks ago headed out to the house site with the dirt bike course. When I got there the fire pit was still smoking, there were beer & liquor bottles scattered everywhere and one very drunk 18'ish kid still remained. Helped him round up his back pack, skateboards, shirt and shoes. He'd fallen into the fire and his hands and scalp were burned all to crap so I stashed my gear and walked him out of the woods to a bus stop and made sure he got on. Brought back a few memories :lol:

When I got back there was an old guy gathering up all the bottles. He lives nearby and whenever he see's a fire he go's out in the morning and makes himself a few $'s.

The cellar holes had dried out pretty much so thats where I spent most of the day. Picked some stuff out of the trash people have been throwing in over the years. Also put on the small coil for a couple of hours and picked around in the party area.

Dug two silver rings & eyeballed a small silver earing. I think the engraved brass thing is an umbrella tip.
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A couple of bells. 8 of those so far this year. The one with the 6 is very old.
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The coins are an 1844 US cent, 1887 Canadian, 1861 New Brunswick, a badly holed blacksmith token and a 1928 dime. I think the Empire State think is a key fob.
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I found the point when I dug up an aluminum bottle cap. Sure would have been nice if it were whole.
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Thanks for looking & GH, Chris
 
I went out with my old hunting buddy Richard. He's hoping to have a little more time this year but with home and two small boys it ain't going to be easy. 5 years ago we hunted together 2-3 times a week. I think he made it out twice last year.

The plan was to spend some time digging into the sides of the foundation. Love to do the bottom but time didn't allow for clearing all the scrap metal. You can see some of that in the 1st pic.

Richie going in for the kill. He got the twin for one of the big colonial buttons I got a while back in this hole.

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My excavations :lol: All the big rocks are what I pulled out from the wall.

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No coins but buttons o'plenty. the bone one had to have been made by a drunk amateur. The one next to it is interesting. The back mark says "Commerce & Independence". Sounds like a political statement. The little shoe buckle is in really bad shape. Also got a silver cat ring.

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More to come after supper :lol: Chris
 
Conchita and were out yard sailing and drove past a site that I've been doing for 5-6 years. I'd noticed a while ago that the owner hadn't plowed in the fall and thought it odd. When we went by on Saturday we saw all the survey stakes. Construction is supposed to start next week.

I got there around noon and stayed until midnight. Hope I can make it back when they strip off the topsoil. This spot is really iron infested so you have to work it hard. Managed a few goodies.

This house burned so you dig a lot of melted blobs. You can see where the thing with the shield has melted on the ends. The coins are an 1876 Canadian cent and a holed 1851 British penny. Lots of white glass buttons laying around. The white thing at the top is a leg from a toy animal. Best find was the big button. I thought it had been hit by a plow but after a better look saw that the wide side has been serrated. When you hold it between your thumb and 1st finger you have a nifty little scraper. Not sure what the brass loopy thing is.

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One more to go!
 
Was exiting for about five minutes :lol:

Went to the woods near my place hoping to pull another little nickle. After digging a few bits of trash (not many signals left in there) I got a nice Wheatie type hit and dug a gold coin love token pin :hot:

Here it is fresh from the ground.

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After taking the pics I realised it felt way too light and decided to spit on it. Oh well, I guess a gold plated Injun is better that a kick in the teeth. So disgusted I went home and thats the 1st time thats happened :lol:

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Thanks for looking and hope everyone gets out this weekend. Got 4 days off myself, Chris
 
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