Squeaked out a few more tonight

[rbholt80]

I headed back to the house that i had hit last night and pulled 2 more wheat's and 1 silver nickel. The nickel was crusty with iron on it so i hit it with my little wire brush. Its was interesting to find a fire department badge about 5 inches down in some roots and then i realized that the house was just burned that's why its getting torn down. So then i started looking at the dirt really close and could see that this wasn't the first time this home had burned. I guess the badge was from the first time it burned back in the 50's or 60's from what i could see. The char layer was about 5 inches down so that's how i concluded all that.


I pulled a small buckle out from between some roots Thats was fun ok it wasnt but what the hel@ you take the good with the bad.

 

[utahshovelhead]

Nice finds 80! fire department badge is way cool! is it form the new burn or old burn or do you think somebody lost it while living at the place?...Once I found a honkin brass fire hose nozzle in the buried remains of a burnout. I polished it up and now it sits in my showcase. Thanks for sharin.

 

[rbholt80]

I think its from the old burn cause it was down about 5 inches in a grassy part of the yard. I didnt know the house was burned it looked fine till i looked around back an seen were the fire had been. But like I said the badge was to deep to be new so thats why i started checking out the dirt as i dug things to see if there had been a fire before. Im going to go back one more time and hunt cause there is a bunch of really old iron near the back and looking threw the woods behind it a saw an old house thats falling down and all grown over by trees and vines. Ill try and get a pic next time if i remember. Theirs got to be something old there.