Squeaked One More Relic Hunt In Before Christmas

[CPT_GhostLight]

I made one more run to a relic permission site last week but didn't get to unpack the finds until yesterday because I was wrangled by the wife to help get the house ready for the Christmas invasion of the kids and their families. 😉

I wanted to try out an audio only hunting technique brought up by @Lodge Scent in his post asking "Who Uses the Armband?" referring to taking the Remote off of the shaft and popping it in an armband and hunting by tones. This intrigued me and I wanted to give it a try before the ground froze solid, so I dug my flip-case out of the Deus 2 box and rigged it onto my finds pouch sling.

I was using my D2 with the 11" coil again and the same Fast Full Tones settings I used on my last hunt there in November where I narrowly avoided an alien abduction! 👽

I fired up the D2 and wasn't three feet from the car when I got a nice solid sounding tone. Without even looking up the ID, I dug out a nice pocket watch back with some fancy scroll work on it. About five feet from there, I hit another nice sounding high tone and out popped a padlock front plate with an elephant and Miller USA on it, circa 1870-1930.

I was determined to not bring a lot of iron home this time, but as I ventured back to the area that I did well at last time, the non-ferrous targets were very very hard to find, so I picked up some iron stuff that was too interesting to pass up. On the right side of the photo with the axehead, bell cover, and miner's lamps, you'll see a spherical object with grooves in it. It's not metallic and too light to be stone, so I think it may be a Native American tool perhaps? IDK

I took a little break for lunch and decided to put the remote back onto the shaft, not because I was having trouble finding targets, but I like to have the program selector and pinpoint button at thumb's reach to help make dig/no dig decisions on the fly. I managed to find some interesting items like a couple of small iron buckles, pocket watch parts, a small drain plug, suspender clip parts (patent 1894), a 2002 quarter and 1967 dime, some lead toys parts, a porcelin doll torso, several overall and shirt buttons, and the finds of the day, a 5 cent Alamo Club Token and a Miner's ID Tag (the town name has been photoshopped out by land owner's request). And the almost tossed out surprise of the day was a square-ish metal band that turn out to have a Sterling stamp with 3 hallmarks on one side! I have no idea what kind of item it is, but it's a silver one! Thanks for reading and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all! 😎

I also found what looks like an older radiator cap, perhaps.

Miscellaneous stuff.

And the trash...

[ColonelDan]

Very productive “last hunt” before Christmas!!

😊

[F350Platinum]

Fascinating hunt Cap! 👍

Your "Miller" plate is this:

The array of overall buttons and tokens are incredible. 🙂 Patented 4 hole? Wow.

The Sterling band, depending on it's size might be from a pipe stem, they often carry marks like that.

Cool iron, and I hope the spherical object with grooves isn't alien bone... 🤔 👽

[Lodge Scent]

Nice bunch digs CPT! Looks like F350 ID'd that sterling whatsit. Very curious about that grooved object. Do you think it's bone (terrestrial or otherwise) or wood or clay ???

[schoolofhardNox]

Wow tons of stuff. Nice hunt. So did you like hunting by tones?

[JCR]

That is an interesting site. A very nice variety of finds. @F350Platinum beat me to the pipe band.

[Doc Bach]

Good dig CPT! You have some very productive sites to hunt.You are the Token killer in my opinion, and I really like that lock plate with the elephant.Those pocket watch backs can occasionally come out of the ground completely saturated with gold gilt.I dug one last year that indeed was, just around that time of evening when it was getting to dark to dig without a light.When It came flying out of the hole I got fooled and went into panic mode for just a second, because it looked enough like a double eagle at first glance to make ones heart pound. 

[Sinclair]

Very nice hunt!

The sheer amount of interesting things you find per hunt always amazes me

[CPT_GhostLight]

On 12/14/2023 at 6:14 PM, ColonelDan said:

Very productive “last hunt” before Christmas!!

😊

Thank you, Colonel! 😎

On 12/14/2023 at 6:14 PM, F350Platinum said:

Fascinating hunt Cap! 👍

Your "Miller" plate is this:

The array of overall buttons and tokens are incredible. 🙂 Patented 4 hole? Wow.

The Sterling band, depending on it's size might be from a pipe stem, they often carry marks like that.

Cool iron, and I hope the spherical object with grooves isn't alien bone... 🤔 👽

Thank you, F350, you nailed both of those! 😎

23 hours ago, Lodge Scent said:

Nice bunch digs CPT! Looks like F350 ID'd that sterling whatsit. Very curious about that grooved object. Do you think it's bone (terrestrial or otherwise) or wood or clay ???

Thanks, Lodge Scent! The grooved object is a little too heavy for bone. It was hand grooved, so I was thinking wood, but it seems a little too heavy for that too. A friend of mine thinks its older hard rubber, but it doesn't bounce or have any "give" to it when trying to dig a thumbnail into it. Maybe it was a ball of some kind made into a yo-yo or used for some type of machine. I don't know. 🤔 

[CPT_GhostLight]

13 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Wow tons of stuff. Nice hunt. So did you like hunting by tones?

Thank you, sohN! I do like hunting by tones (specially Full Tones) and have been doing that for about a year now. I prefer the remote mounted on the shaft for quick access but I try to not look at it unless the target is iffy. It has really helped me find some interesting stuff, although I'm sure alot of that is pure dumb luck. 😏

13 hours ago, JCR said:

That is an interesting site. A very nice variety of finds. @F350Platinum beat me to the pipe band.

Thank you, JCR! I thought the silver band may have been from a pipe, but all my father's pipes from the 20s-50's were round shafts so it never occured to me that a pipe could have a square shaft. 🙄