with me. I took the day off & planned on hiking into a quarry site I had found a few weeks back (if anyone's been following my adventures). There are what look like 2 barn foundations there & lots of "pin & feathered" granite blocks. This is how they split stone in the past....
Here's the T2 all assembled out of my pack & up against some "pin & feathered" stone...(look for the marks).
[attachment 34218 T2quarry.jpg]
I was running sensitivity on 70 as I was far away from civilization, & 2 tones....
First solid signal & a #74 was this nice early 1800's patterned cuff button. Has a small star surrounded by some leaf like design & a nice back mark. It was a good 6" down & rang off nice & loud for a tiny button...
[attachment 34219 T2cuff2.jpg]
The site was loaded with big iron....stove parts & junk that showed it was active into the 1900's. I gut tired of all the overload tones & decided to head back to the car & move on to another site. I decided to head a different way as often we run across other sites that way. My GPS wouldn't lock onto the car, so I just wandered in the direction I thought the car was......
Well, it turns out when I gut up on a knoll the GPS finally picked up the car, but I had gone a half mile too far! But wait.....
there's something on this knoll that's VERY interesting & out of place among the brush I'd been crashing through.....
[attachment 34221 t2cem.jpg]
Looks like an above ground foundation......
Lets get a closer look......OK now I see, it's a cemetary. Cool! & looks very early as these are handmade stones. Lets pull away some pine needles & check for a date. Here's one....Look close....
1825
[attachment 34222 T2grave1825.jpg]
I GPS'ed the cemetray & figured there was probably homes around here....why build up the knoll, & there was like 15 stones visable.
I head down the bank to where it points to the car....
Hey, what's this.....like I said often you get lost or go a different way & bang!
There's cellar hole #13 for 2006.....
(May just look like a stone wall but there's a depression below the ferns...not the best angle for a pic)
[attachment 34224 T2tpikehole2.jpg]
In an odd place below the knoll & along a swamp. Forget driving to another site now.....Fire up the T2 again here!
First signal was a big piece of cast iron kettle....
next signal was a small pistol ball. Not a bad start...
There really was not much there...not even much iron. I gut a few odds & ends. Another button, lead seal, strap buckle, etc. No big penny this time. But finally I saw a glint of silver! It was an early silver spoon...with initials.
Looks like "EJB" maybe? Neat personal relic....
Here's all the finds.
[attachment 34228 T2finds9106.jpg]
Nothing super.......but far better than a day at the office!
I hope to get out this weekend & maybe pop a coin or 2.
HH,
Bill
Here's the T2 all assembled out of my pack & up against some "pin & feathered" stone...(look for the marks).
[attachment 34218 T2quarry.jpg]
I was running sensitivity on 70 as I was far away from civilization, & 2 tones....
First solid signal & a #74 was this nice early 1800's patterned cuff button. Has a small star surrounded by some leaf like design & a nice back mark. It was a good 6" down & rang off nice & loud for a tiny button...
[attachment 34219 T2cuff2.jpg]
The site was loaded with big iron....stove parts & junk that showed it was active into the 1900's. I gut tired of all the overload tones & decided to head back to the car & move on to another site. I decided to head a different way as often we run across other sites that way. My GPS wouldn't lock onto the car, so I just wandered in the direction I thought the car was......
Well, it turns out when I gut up on a knoll the GPS finally picked up the car, but I had gone a half mile too far! But wait.....
there's something on this knoll that's VERY interesting & out of place among the brush I'd been crashing through.....
[attachment 34221 t2cem.jpg]
Looks like an above ground foundation......
Lets get a closer look......OK now I see, it's a cemetary. Cool! & looks very early as these are handmade stones. Lets pull away some pine needles & check for a date. Here's one....Look close....
1825
[attachment 34222 T2grave1825.jpg]
I GPS'ed the cemetray & figured there was probably homes around here....why build up the knoll, & there was like 15 stones visable.
I head down the bank to where it points to the car....
Hey, what's this.....like I said often you get lost or go a different way & bang!
There's cellar hole #13 for 2006.....
(May just look like a stone wall but there's a depression below the ferns...not the best angle for a pic)
[attachment 34224 T2tpikehole2.jpg]
In an odd place below the knoll & along a swamp. Forget driving to another site now.....Fire up the T2 again here!
First signal was a big piece of cast iron kettle....
next signal was a small pistol ball. Not a bad start...
There really was not much there...not even much iron. I gut a few odds & ends. Another button, lead seal, strap buckle, etc. No big penny this time. But finally I saw a glint of silver! It was an early silver spoon...with initials.
Looks like "EJB" maybe? Neat personal relic....
Here's all the finds.
[attachment 34228 T2finds9106.jpg]
Nothing super.......but far better than a day at the office!
I hope to get out this weekend & maybe pop a coin or 2.
HH,
Bill