10-28 Finds: "The site that keeps on Giving"

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Hello fellow diggers,

My hunting buddies, Dave & Mark posted a few months about this civil war Union encampment that we've been hunting regularly since April-and this site continues to amaze me in the finds we continue to recover.

This past Saturday, I hunted our favorite Union encampment site: the site that keeps on giving. Dave & Mark could not join me as they could only get out Sunday which I could not do. We call this encampment "the site that keeps on giving" because we've been hitting this site since April and have dug probably close to 200 drops, .44s and .54s, round shot, and over 2 dozen buttons, general service, "A" and "I" buttons.
On Saturday, I brought in a rake and raked over an hour previous areas that we have already detected, and dug 2 more dropped .44s, 2.54s, 1 general service jacket/breast button, and my first: 1 NY State Seal Staff Officer C button with excelsior inscription around the 13 stars on the bottom of the button. Button has almost 60-70% gilt, is beautiful with eye hook fully intact no smoosh at all, fully legible back mark states: "Quality Extra" with two small starts on opposite sides.
And this site was supposedly "all hunted out" per fellow ther's. It all goes to show-no site is completely hunted out if one will take his time and rake the area to unmask the goodies lying just below the surface.

I am having difficult in posting pics but hope to do so this week as I upload from my camera but I get an error message stating pics to big-how do I re size so I can post? Thanks

Wayne
 
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Really exciting place to be hunting. Never let someone tell you it's all hunted out. Hunt for yourself and have a good time. If your finds are far and few between you now know for sure about the site. There are only a few people I trust to tell me a site is hunted out, and I can count them on one hand. So you never know till you try it for yourself. The finds sure do sound good. I hope you get that camera running soon. You know you hardly ever see buttons come out of the ground around here with gilt. I have seen some but not many. Sounds like a really nice button

Thanks Will
 
October 28 Finds: The site that keeps on Giving

Thanks Will,

Yes this site is really unbelievable in terms of the finds-and most of the buttons that have been dug are in really terrible condition. I have dug 11 from this site and my two buddies Dave & Mark have dug the rest. The two buttons I dug Saturday were in the best condition; the first; the NY State Seal Staff Officer jacket/breast button and the General Service Eagle jacket/breast button (coat). The NY State Seal button is a bit bigger than the General Service jacket button, and I almost passed over it.

When we dig we remove all the trash so we've been hunting this site since April and have already about exhausted what finds are left from the areas we have already detected. So we decided to bring in rakes and actually rake about 2-3 inches off the surface and expand the area that we have already detected. Just by doing that I was digging other signals-a lot of junk bottle caps because we have expanded the area-so now enter the " modern junk trash" into the detecting scenario. Well I had dug about 3-4 bottle caps in a row registering at surface or 1 inch below when I got another "hit", solid signal at 1 inch down which I suspected another bottle cap-but was presently surprised when it popped out-the NY State button, fully intact no corrosion anywhere with almost 60-70% gilt. I have taken pictures with my digital camera and I catalog all finds on my computer but when I try to post it this website I receive a message error image size too big. How can I re size so I can post? Thanks

Wayne
 
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