1 Out Of 100 Acres, Lots Of Buttons

[F350Platinum]

This one is for the button fan, I dug a 1926 wheat in another field but that was it for the coins.

Invited Chase up for one of the last hunts here, a new 100 acre permission that I didn't find much in before, we set out to scout the other half of it that I didn't get to.

It's a huge field that had beans on it last year, usually I prefer to hunt in bean stalks but this one is tough, the stalks are too tall. We ran into a farmer friend who told us this is because when they are rushing to get the beans before a rain, they lift the combine collector and don't cut them short. The stalks become really stiff by spring and are very hard to walk on, they chip at your shoes and can go through your hand or foot if you're not careful. 😬

We set out heading to the other side of the field, Chase went ahead and hunted around the old barn, I think he got a couple of wheats there.

I walked up the center of the field not expecting anything, I had crisscrossed this field before and found literally nothing. Got a 47 and dug this rolled copper "tinkler" that was traded with the Indians:

https://www.nativetech.org/metal/tinkle/tinkle.html

It would be a "point" or arrowhead if it had a point, these were hung on their clothing and they jingle.

I immediately went into circle mode, making a spiral around the place I found the first object, and hit 3 buttons. By this time Chase was way across the field, so I noted where I found this stuff and joined him to scout the rest of the place. We found next to nothing, I got just a few buckle bits. We decided to go back to this "hotspot" and the buttons just kept coming, I think between us we found well over 20. Small cuff buttons, medium buttons, a couple large, both brass and Tombac. They were everywhere in about an acre or so.

What I thought might be a pretty bad day turned out to be a great one, I got all this:

16 buttons and a bunch of other brass stuff. Chase did as well. When things wound down we quit for the day, but there are certainly more there.

Here's the trash, only a handful but I got fooled by a few bits of big iron today:

I was using Relic exclusively, with the 13" coil on the Deus 2, with reactivity at 1 and Audio response 7. Some of the buttons were over 10" deep! We found other artifacts that deep too.

Sadly we found no coins in that spot. We think it was an area where people got together and traded stuff in the 1600s and 1700s, and possibly with the Indians as well.

This is a great example of how you really have to search a farm to find the hotspots, it takes a lot of determination and some really good guesses. You just can't give up!

There may be another hotspot here, there is a part of the field we didn't go to, but we'll get there.

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[Valens Legacy]

That is great on the finds once again and glad to see you save some more history.

Good luck on your next outing and as always stay safe out there.

[F350Platinum]

3 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

That is great on the finds once again and glad to see you save some more history.

Good luck on your next outing and as always stay safe out there.

Thanks VL, relic season is almost over, maybe a couple more weeks but I have to start yard work and getting my RV ready for beach season. I'll miss the quiet of hunting the fields. We have no parks in this area that can be legally hunted so I won't be getting out as much. This has been my best relic season ever.

The problem with people at the beach is people at the beach. 😏

[JCR]

Nice hunt. It is fun to speculate & try to figure out why a "hot spot" would be where it is in a now wide open empty space.

[F350Platinum]

31 minutes ago, JCR said:

Nice hunt. It is fun to speculate & try to figure out why a "hot spot" would be where it is in a now wide open empty space.

Thanks JCR,

Since we didn't find any coins we think it might have been a gathering spot for barter. I've found spots like this in other farms here, lots of buttons and animal tack but no money.

There was an old house back in the woods, there was a road going to it that I walked using Caltopo, but there was nothing but iron. The house site is very difficult to get to, and right on a ravine that drops off precipitously, I'm never comfortable around those. 😬 There is nothing in the field near the house site.

Much later another house was built, and an old machine shop and post office is there in ruins, somewhat famous in its own right. The later house is gone and replaced by a current one, and sadly lots of the topsoil has been scraped to the edges of the ravines to slow erosion.

I guess we'll have to look around the edges a bit.

[ColonelDan]

Glad to see your Relic program treated you so well!  👏🏻🫡

[F350Platinum]

1 hour ago, ColonelDan said:

Glad to see your Relic program treated you so well!  👏🏻🫡

Thanks Colonel,

I ran sensitivity and audio response high with reactivity low. Goes really deep. Really great in relatively clean areas, but prone to false on forged iron. It holds ID down to no signal.

[Doc Bach]

Super copper trade piece Bob. Or who knows possibly an ancient Indian made artifact that predates the other finds by many years?Gotta love that relic program! It's been pretty much exclusive for me the last few months. I use it until I get plumb worn out or when it's not practical then I switch over too fast and cruise along.

[F350Platinum]

On 3/26/2024 at 10:33 PM, Doc Bach said:

Super copper trade piece Bob. Or who knows possibly an ancient Indian made artifact that predates the other finds by many years?Gotta love that relic program! It's been pretty much exclusive for me the last few months. I use it until I get plumb worn out or it's not practical then I switch over too fast and cruise along.

Thanks Doc,

A lot of people use fast, I tried one version of it but they blanked out iron, which while relic hunting is useless to me. I'll have to mess with it some. 🤔 

I like the Tekkna program and am excited to see what they will do for it with beach hunting, but it is specialized and too soft in the clean places. I use it to get a break from the harshness of Relic. 🙂

Relic makes a distinctive sound when passing over something good, even with low reactivity. With the 13" coil battery it lasts all day, I don't think it was as good in versions before V2.

I rarely find Indian stuff, here they didn't use copper before the settlers arrived unlike some lucky hunters out west. I hear many tales of arrowheads everywhere but have yet to find one of them either. 🫤

[rvpopeye]

You've collected so many permissions it boggles the mind.🤯

You can actually cherry pick the locations instead of just the targets..👍