New Permission - "surely, You Can't Be Serious?"

[F350Platinum]

Today Chase came down to hunt a new permission with me, a turn-of-the-century farm not too far away. The farm has 3 houses on it, two Victorian and one modern. The landowner is a person my wife has been friends with for years, he catered our wedding.

Near as I can tell this place has never been hunted. The main field is about 67 acres and surrounds the large house, there is another of about 30 acres across the highway with a smaller Victorian house and the modern one.

I'm looking for something for the owner but he is allowing me to keep everything else. 🙂 

I brought my Equinox and the Deus 2, the EMI was pretty rough near the highway where we started so I ended up using the Deus all day. I was using my modified General program, which Chase introduced "Full tones" to, I was running it with 5. It became quite a bit easier to distinguish some targets but the objective today was to dig anything that gave consistent good tone, be it aluminum and even falsing iron. I dug a horrendous amount of trash. 😵 This is just the aluminum:

I split it into two photos. 🤬

Some big falsing iron and the usual suspects, bullets, shotgun shell ends, junk copper and an old Schrader valve.

While searching the large field on our way to a remote barn we came upon a spot that gave up some pretty good finds! It was a house or a tavern, there was brick and pottery, and lots of brass. I dug these large pieces

Top is a barrel tap, next what may be a rifle buttstock plate, a musket ball, a large brass foot of some sort, an ox knob, and what I think is a brass insert for a glass door knob. Heavy stuff!

We went way back in the field to find a barn, found the spot but nothing else except for a swarm of bees in a nearby hollow. We decided to go back to the productive spot. There I found some interesting smaller items:

A small broken horseshoe charm, it was gold plated. A 1920s lipstick tube, "Kissproof". A broken button with what looks like grapes on it, very old. A small bracelet piece with a flower design on it and a few links. One flat breech button, and a large token that says "Leonard Refrigerators" on it from about the 30s:

Not sure what the object is, but it's the punchline of my corny title. 😀

Chase had to leave so I came back later for a bit, and got my find of the day along with the Tombac in the finds photo:

1831 Matron Large cent, in fairly good shape. 🙂

[GaryC/Oregon Coast]

I need to move to Virginia!!!  GaryC/Oregon Coast

[Joe D.]

"And don't call me Shirley"🤣

  Fun hunt, cool finds, and a good old punchline!!👍👍

[Valens Legacy]

Another great hunt, wish I had time to get out there.

Good luck on your next outing.

[Cal_Cobra]

Good hunt, nice write up! 

Love the early barrel tap, and congrats on the largie!

I believe the Shirley bit is part of a suspender clip, find them frequently at western ghost towns, although they usually say Shirley President. 

[F350Platinum]

2 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Good hunt, nice write up! 

Love the early barrel tap, and congrats on the largie!

I believe the Shirley bit is part of a suspender clip, find them frequently at western ghost towns, although they usually say Shirley President. 

Thanks for the positive ID, Cal. 👍

The brass plate does have a bit of the grip left on it, I've seen the "President" part before on the forum. Appreciate the help! 

[F350Platinum]

2 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Another great hunt, wish I had time to get out there.

Good luck on your next outing.

As soon as I can I'm going to use the Equinox here, the Deus is great, but I still love that detector. 🙂

[F350Platinum]

3 hours ago, Joe D. said:

"And don't call me Shirley"🤣

  Fun hunt, cool finds, and a good old punchline!!👍👍

😀 I must be an annoying person sometimes, any time anyone says something like "Coffee?" I say:

"Yes it is." 🤣

Even made up one of my own, at the hardware store when they say "Would you like a bag?"

"Nah, I'll eat it here" 😀

[F350Platinum]

3 hours ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said:

I need to move to Virginia!!!  GaryC/Oregon Coast

That would be a long trip for these sort of relics 😀 this little spot gave up quite a few. What surprised me was the lack of nails everywhere, or I've tuned them out. Interesting mix of 1700s to early 20th Century.

There's gotta be some silver here somewhere... Might be too much to hope for gold. 🤔 Just got started. This building wasn't on any topo, but the earliest map I can find for this area is 1917, and the earliest aerial is 1967. They moved the main road possibly because of erosion, there was only a small opening to the "field of bees".

That was weird. I kept hearing a buzz in my ears, I'm glad I had the WS6 on. I'm very lucky they weren't in a stinging mood, there were thousands. 😬

[geof_junk]

The best finds for satisfaction for me are the ones with a clear old date. You found a good share of them there.