Bell-Two
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House Hunt and Two Field Hunts
I have not been posting much lately, so busy with work around house and other things but field season is starting so I plan on getting out much more often.
My nephew Jim has an old house he is renovating and he asked us to come and detect. The yard is very trashy since the house was very run down. Found a wheat cent and dug this thin brass object and it was in a total ball but 1 ½ hours of careful bending and straightening revealed this.
It is one half of an Eagle Wing sash buckle, not sure how old it is but I like it!
We then went to an old house, where we got some wheat cents and two Indian Heads Diane’s is an 1895 and mine is a 1900, we got quite a few toy cars and trucks and I got this “Naval Button” at first I was a bit excited but after consulting the button book I had my doubts and Danny confirmed it was from a Civilian Dress but still looked neat!
One other house hunt gave up this poor Buffalo Nickel seems like some one was hunting Buffalo!
At last some of the fields were cut so Diane and I went out to the “Iron Field” so named for the massive amount of iron in this field. We were able to squeeze out a couple of keepers, Diane got a 1917 Wheat cent and I got an Indian Head 1896.
Doug and I went out a couple of days later and did not find much since we got rained out!
This last Saturday it was partly cloudy with some breeze which kept it very comfortable. Two more fields had been cut the first we call Diane’s field because she killed it there last year. This year it was in beans so it made it easier to swing the coil. We were not getting many targets so Doug volunteered to walk out in the field to see if he could find a site that the map says was there but we have not had any luck locating. Just as he started I got a decent 12-34 and I popped this out of the ground.
A nice little semi key 1874 Indian Head. At first it looked like an 1871 but after cleaning I could see the 4 which is a bit weakly struck.
I later got what at first I thought was a Cache Coin but it was bent in half but as I looked at it I thought maybe a token, as I tried to wipe a bit of dirt off it snapped in half. I think I see something on it but that may be wishful thinking, I guess I will never know!
We then moved to the adjoining field, there was a mid 1800’s house on this site until about 10 years ago, the farmer told me they buried the house about 15 feet deep! So with so much massive movement of the dirt we did not know what the chances may be to find anything. We had hunted this for a bit last year and all we found were some wheat cents. Doug continued that trend with 5 wheat cents and I got a 1990 Rabies dog tag and a very pretty little silver plated buckle.
Diane called out to me that she had just got a wheat cent and then just a minute later she walked over to me and said “I just dug this two steps from the wheat cent”, and it was shiny and said One Dime! A 1916 Barber dime, at first we thought 1906 since there was a bit of hardened clay on the date but still an excellent find!
So we had a good day and are very happy that the Ohio Fields are opening now!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=SZ4sd1R9w0M&u=/watch%3Fv%3DDiAxQudyr1E%26feature%3Dem-share_video_user[/video]
I have not been posting much lately, so busy with work around house and other things but field season is starting so I plan on getting out much more often.
My nephew Jim has an old house he is renovating and he asked us to come and detect. The yard is very trashy since the house was very run down. Found a wheat cent and dug this thin brass object and it was in a total ball but 1 ½ hours of careful bending and straightening revealed this.
It is one half of an Eagle Wing sash buckle, not sure how old it is but I like it!
We then went to an old house, where we got some wheat cents and two Indian Heads Diane’s is an 1895 and mine is a 1900, we got quite a few toy cars and trucks and I got this “Naval Button” at first I was a bit excited but after consulting the button book I had my doubts and Danny confirmed it was from a Civilian Dress but still looked neat!
One other house hunt gave up this poor Buffalo Nickel seems like some one was hunting Buffalo!
At last some of the fields were cut so Diane and I went out to the “Iron Field” so named for the massive amount of iron in this field. We were able to squeeze out a couple of keepers, Diane got a 1917 Wheat cent and I got an Indian Head 1896.
Doug and I went out a couple of days later and did not find much since we got rained out!
This last Saturday it was partly cloudy with some breeze which kept it very comfortable. Two more fields had been cut the first we call Diane’s field because she killed it there last year. This year it was in beans so it made it easier to swing the coil. We were not getting many targets so Doug volunteered to walk out in the field to see if he could find a site that the map says was there but we have not had any luck locating. Just as he started I got a decent 12-34 and I popped this out of the ground.
A nice little semi key 1874 Indian Head. At first it looked like an 1871 but after cleaning I could see the 4 which is a bit weakly struck.
I later got what at first I thought was a Cache Coin but it was bent in half but as I looked at it I thought maybe a token, as I tried to wipe a bit of dirt off it snapped in half. I think I see something on it but that may be wishful thinking, I guess I will never know!
We then moved to the adjoining field, there was a mid 1800’s house on this site until about 10 years ago, the farmer told me they buried the house about 15 feet deep! So with so much massive movement of the dirt we did not know what the chances may be to find anything. We had hunted this for a bit last year and all we found were some wheat cents. Doug continued that trend with 5 wheat cents and I got a 1990 Rabies dog tag and a very pretty little silver plated buckle.
Diane called out to me that she had just got a wheat cent and then just a minute later she walked over to me and said “I just dug this two steps from the wheat cent”, and it was shiny and said One Dime! A 1916 Barber dime, at first we thought 1906 since there was a bit of hardened clay on the date but still an excellent find!
So we had a good day and are very happy that the Ohio Fields are opening now!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=SZ4sd1R9w0M&u=/watch%3Fv%3DDiAxQudyr1E%26feature%3Dem-share_video_user[/video]