A friend of mine just got permission to...
lordmarcovan
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...detect in the yard of an old house I've had my eye on for at least 12 years.
And we can go anytime.
But I have to be "stay at home daddy" this weekend, so no diggin' for me.
Dang.
I could drag my six-year-old along, and she might actually find it interesting for about twenty minutes. But I fear her attention span would not be up to the challenge, and I want MY attention span totally uninterrupted when we hunt this place!
And we can go anytime.
But I have to be "stay at home daddy" this weekend, so no diggin' for me.
Dang.
I could drag my six-year-old along, and she might actually find it interesting for about twenty minutes. But I fear her attention span would not be up to the challenge, and I want MY attention span totally uninterrupted when we hunt this place!
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There's a true pal.
I make sure to give him a coin or something every time he does this. Having discovered he no longer has a coin book, I am gonna give him a spankin' new 2008 Redbook when we get together to hunt this site.
Not only is there a cool old Victorian house on the premises, but also an old barn and servant's quarters, he says. And he said the owners told him the place was built in the 1850s and was used as a campsite by local Confederate soldiers early in the Civil War.
I know the part about the house being built in the 1850s isn't true- it is plainly a circa-1880-1890 Victorian, as are most on its block. There are only one or two known surviving homes from before the Civil War here in Old Town Brunswick.
However, this doesn't mean that there wasn't an older home on the site from the 1850s, and the Confederate soldier part of the story could well be true. In another yard on the block (in front of a circa-1885 home), I dug a gorgeous South Carolina state seal button that had been made in England and smuggled through the blockade.
CW buttons or not, the place is likely to have some nice older coins. The yard doesn't look terribly big from the street, but I suspect the part not visible from the curb (around back where these servant quarters likely are) could be much bigger than the visible front yard.
Weather is getting right now for some serious MD'ing.
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It's on.
I have been doing my "treasure hunting" in places like eBay and coin deals lately. It's time to put the dig jeans back on and get my hands dirty again. Haven't been out since early October.
Well, not in my diet, hopefully- that was a figger o' speech. But hopefully there will be some nice dirt with shiny silver peekin' out... in my hands.
Ty is s'posed to call me. I will call you. We might do a recon without you first, O He-Who-Snatches-Multiple-Large-Cents-From-Under-My-Nose.
(Seriously, though, you'll get a piece of the action, if circumstances permit.)
What are you trying to say about Millenium--are you saying he "2500'ed you"
Good luck to all of you who get a chance to get out this weekend. It looks like it may be low 30's here Saturday, but hopefully Sunday afternoon it will warm up a little for me to get out and dig a little.
<< <i>What are you trying to say about Millenium--are you saying he "2500'ed you" >>
Well, yes he has. Twice, now, with large cents I practically tripped over.
But I carry a 2500, myself, these days.
Speaking of which- hey Steve-
Ty doesn't have a detector anymore. Why don't you come along, and between three of us, with two detectors, we should be able to keep everybody busy? By no means should you leave your machine at home!