More Late 1850's Military Camp Relics & Silver This Time

[abenson]

Got out for the weekend in search of more Military Camp sites off the main site we located a while back. Meet with the property owners and presented them with a display case that included the $1 gold coin I found. They were very surprised and happy to have it to display in their home located on the property. They had a 10 year old grand daughter visiting and wanted to know if it was all right if she tagged along for a few hours while we metal detected and of course we agreed. They got out a Ricomax metal detector for her to use and after finding some batteries for it we headed out. It didn't take long for us and her to realize that the Ricomax wasn't going to cut it. So she followed us around and took turns swinging one of our metal detectors from time to time and found a few relics of her own. Needless to say she was hooked and after she went back to the house for quick sandwich, begged grandma to come back out and metal detect some more. She was a joy to have around and it was good to see a young girl so interested in the hobby. After a hard day of hunting the property owners surprised us with a BBQ dinner and we sat and talked about life and politics for the remainder of the night. We arrived back the next day and of course the little girl was ready to go back out with us until she had to leave for a cousin's birthday party. Needless to say the weekend was a success. Below are my finds, you can times that by 3 and see we had a great hunt. Some of the highlights of the hunt were Eagle A, Eagle I and Eagle R buttons, j hooks, multiple cal bullets including .52 Sharps, .69, .58 and .54 minie balls, a 1857 dime and 1851 3 cent piece. We won't be getting back to that location until next Spring. In the mean time we'll be doing more research in hopes of locating more camp sites.

[strick]

Nice work once again...you have done some good research there...finding all those minnie balls you know your in the right spot...was wondering if the owners of the place knew there was an old camp there? Are you guys the first to hit it? Liking the 3 cent piece it's in great shape. Id the dime stamped? thanks for sharing love these old relic spots.

strick

[abenson]

35 minutes ago, strick said:

Nice work once again...you have done some good research there...finding all those minnie balls you know your in the right spot...was wondering if the owners of the place knew there was an old camp there? Are you guys the first to hit it? Liking the 3 cent piece it's in great shape. Id the dime stamped? thanks for sharing love these old relic spots.

strick

Yes the owners know the camp was on there property but not exactly where. I'm sure there have been people metal detecting there in the past. A lot of camps were discovered in the 1960's thru 1980's  back then there was no internet only treasure magazines and most guys just plain never told anyone. A good example is a camp I know of that some guys thought they were the first to discovered in the 1990's only to be told by an old timmer he'd been hunting it since the 60's.

You can also usually tell by what's left. Back when there was no notch disc. People would turn up their disc to knock out everything but the higher conductors. So all the bullets, larger buttons and coins are for the most part gone.

No the dime doesn't have a mint mark, if that's what you mean by stamped.

[jim tn]

Nice hunting and great tale. Great on you showing your appreciation to the land owner. Very nice batch of finds. (x3) HH jim tn

[schoolofhardNox]

Awesome hunt. Love the Eagle R button. We don't seem to have these in New England. We get the A and I  but not R, at least not for me. Nice seated silver too!

[strick]

Yea its kinda disappointing to hit a spot and find that all the high conductors are gone...seems most of the good relic spots I've hunted you  really had to work hard for every silver coin we've found....seems someone has always been there before us....But there is always hope...never give up.. like with gold nugget hunting nobody ever gets it all...

And anyone who has been successful in this hobby has not accomplished it with a negative defeatist attitude lol. 

strick

[CPT_GhostLight]

Wow, another awesome hunt! Great story and I'm sure a great time. Well done again!

[F350Platinum]

I'm sure you're in the Trime club already, so welcome back. 👍 Great hunt, had to look up the rifleman button!

That's a great spot with a really great family on it. Good on you for training the daughter, she must be having a blast. If we all could be so lucky... 🤔

[dogodog]

Awesome finds, I've hunted a lot of hunted out spots only to pull some nice stuff out. never let old detecting stories get in your way of hitting a spot. seems to me you did pretty well on the day.

[Valens Legacy]

Great looking hunt from the pictures, and some nice looking silver.

Good luck on your next hunt.