Bullets Buttons And Buckles - Updated

[F350Platinum]

Today had a cold start but we're going into La Niña warm again this week, started out at 34 and got up to 57. It was also windy. I used the Deus 2 and 13" coil with my relic program.

Today I hunted a very large field near my house, going to places I haven't hunted because there didn't seem to be anything there. 😀 I've been getting a lot better than I used to be with scouting, today ended up being pretty good!

About a year ago the farmer of this 200 acre farm told me there was another barn here but I never found it. First I hunted the extended field and only got a spoon and some bullets.

The next section I went to seemed to have nothing, but I was walking around the edges in the "turn zone" looking to find coins. 

This field has been hit hard in all the known places, but I now know of two that haven't been discovered. The first one gave me a lot of old relics, coins and buttons, even a KG3 cent last year and a standing liberty quarter last Sunday. It was a house no one knew about. 

I got back out to the big field, and turned back into the field I had circled to check the center, often people gathered in the center of these fields, and this happens to be where horse racing and training occurred.

Started hearing iron, a lot of it, and found my first button. None of the buttons I found today were even the size of a penny, they came up in the 50s and 60s on the D2. Most were co-located with iron so in some places I had to turn reactivity up to 2, but mostly ran it at 0.

Digging was easy, it's been a while since it rained, and there was only a light ice crust on the field which melted quickly as it warmed up.

So here's what I got:

The largest and most undamaged thimble I've ever found, an old thin spoon marked "Alaska", the only word I can read on it where makers marks are.

7 small buttons, none even as large as a dime. One huge Dandy button with edge decoration, a very cool extremely old brass buckle I found all 3 pieces of, part of a big frame buckle, a couple small bits and some unusual whatzit.

A couple of the small buttons are decorated too, this place has very old stuff so they're also more toasted than other places, the first has a circle and square:

This one has a star in the center and a circle, possibly a wreath and it looks like it has reeding around the edges:

I've never found a full shoe or knee buckle, but this one I got all of.

I wish I found more of this one!

And here's the whatzit, no idea.

It's copper, it was an 81.

Here's the big thimble:

It's brass and appears to have markings on top.

Trash today wasn't even a handful.

[strick]

Nice work 350..rare to get  thimble in that condition..It should clean up nicely. All those flat buttons...whats that green dot bottom center on the first photo?

strick 

[F350Platinum]

18 minutes ago, strick said:

whats that green dot bottom center on the first photo?

Thanks Strick!

Wish it was something cool, it's a sun flare in the camera lens 😀

I'm kinda afraid to do much with the thimble, seems that the letters will come off if I get too aggressive.

Buttons are toasted but show some detail, the big dandy was unexpected. Most of them have shanks! The big one was taco'ed but I could straighten it a bit without breaking it. The older they are the quicker they break. Most of this stuff is probably 1700s.

[Cal_Cobra]

Nice variety of colonial finds there!! 

Not sure what the mystery item is 🤔

[F350Platinum]

7 minutes ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Nice variety of colonial finds there!! 

Not sure what the mystery item is 🤔

Thanks!

No problem, thought it might be a knife crossguard but it's too thin.

Some of the places I go have newer buttons, but I always enjoy finding the really old ones, and when there's a lot of them. 😀 I haven't scratched the surface of this spot so that's great too. I'm pretty sure this place was hit but they didn't do a great job.

[Valens Legacy]

Nice hunt again and a very good save on the thimble.

Good luck out there and stay safe, we don't want any weather balloons crashing down on you.

[Rick N. MI]

Nice relics. Nice to be able to get out. Looks like you are really enjoying that Deus 2.

[F350Platinum]

31 minutes ago, Rick N. MI said:

Nice relics. Nice to be able to get out. Looks like you are really enjoying that Deus 2.

Thanks Rick!

I haven't had many detectors, but certainly not one as accurate and light as the Deus 2. 😀 IMO it is difficult not to use it. The way I've got it set up does quite well with small changes as conditions change.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Excellent job sniffing out the goods again, F350! That giant thimble is georgious and congrats on getting all 3 pieces of the shoe buckle. Nice haul of button too, congrats! The Alaska spoon is a bit of a mystery. The only thing I could find, besides comemorative spoons, was a post on TreasureNet from 2012 from a guy who found a table spoon with Alaska on the back. He didn't post a photo of his but posted a photo of 3 dinner spoons that has Alaska embossed on the back where the makers mark usually is. Well done again!

[GB_Amateur]

Did a quick Google search of "Alaska cutlery" and this is one of the things that popped up:

I also like the thimble and still haven't found my first one.  When I got the ML Eqx 800 I made the modest wish of finding my first Buffalo Nickel.  That happened pretty quickly (and they've kept on coming).  Maybe a thimble (is it too much to ask that it be in nice or easily repairable condition?) is my wish when I get the Manticore.  A stirling one would be nice.  (OK, now I'm getting greedy....)