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mtnyota
02-28-2010, 07:46 PM
So I've been metal detecting for about a year and a half or so and I'm hooked! Found alot of cool stuff. Was wondering if any of you guys on here know of any old house sites that date back before or close to the Civil War? If so could I hunt them for stuff like this? Let me know.
BeaterToyota
02-28-2010, 07:53 PM
Did you find that belt buckle, or is that just an example photo?


Not that we have cool shit in our yard, but you're more than welcome to check. Jenn walked by as I was reading your post and she has a couple ideas. Get in touch with her sometime.
mtnyota
03-01-2010, 05:29 AM
Yes I found it at my dads farm in Middleburg. Have found spurs, buttons, trade token ect. I will get in touch with Jen, and yeah I'll hunt your yard if its cool. You never know!
locknload
03-01-2010, 05:53 AM
That's pretty cool. What are the laws on that as far as where you can legally search and keep your findings? I'm sure you couldn't start walking around Antietam Battlefield with your metal detector.

That would be funny as hell to see though, you should try it. :clap:
mtnyota
03-01-2010, 06:02 AM
That's pretty cool. What are the laws on that as far as where you can legally search and keep your findings? I'm sure you couldn't start walking around Antietam Battlefield with your metal detector.

That would be funny as hell to see though, you should try it. :clap:

I keep a log for everything I find. Don't need to but its good to keep track of. Can't hunt on any parks. Big no no!!
locknload
03-01-2010, 06:31 AM
Do you use a GPS to log? That seems like it would work really well.
jjrgr21
03-01-2010, 06:42 AM
i'd go up to sandy hook, by harpers ferry, and up to the frederick watershed.
mtnyota
03-01-2010, 06:50 AM
Well, I have to have permission. I like hunting old hose site that have fallen down and only a stone foundation or chimney is remaining but will hunt just about anywhere I know was a heavily travelled area during the war.
mtnyota
03-01-2010, 06:52 AM
Do you use a GPS to log? That seems like it would work really well.

No, but thats a great idea! never thought about that! I can pretty much take you to the spots and show you exactly where I found stuff.
94krawler
03-01-2010, 09:15 PM
Old house's near me along the old coal canal transport and indian lands. We have found tons of stuff without metal detector's. I've always wanted to try one.
mtnyota
03-02-2010, 05:07 AM
I was hooked after the first day. My friend and I are out there from sun up to sun down when we go.
IH8MUDTOO
03-02-2010, 09:41 AM
I was at Spotsylvania Battlefield last October, there was a crew there from the National Park Service detecting in an area that the NPS plans to pave a walkway to the site of the "bloody angle". I talked to them, but they would not let me photograph any relics. But did let me view a bayonet they had pulled just minutes prior.

Here's a picture.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a347/1988SAS/100_2552.jpg
mtnyota
03-02-2010, 05:35 PM
I'd shit my pants if I pulled a bayonet out of the ground. Closest thing to that was my buddy diggin a sword pommel. That was nice.
Sleepy Cannon
03-03-2010, 06:53 PM
Growing up I went with my pop's he dug up two Eric. He found several coat buttons from differen states with alot of gold left on them. Also cannon balls even an US belt buckel with an 68 cal round ball in the middle. That buckel saved that guys life.
BeaterToyota
03-04-2010, 08:21 PM
I know I don't have Terry's photochop skillz, but every time I see this thread I picture Redneck Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark...

http://pics.montypics.com/beatertoyota/2010-03-04/1267755573_redneck_jones_copy.jpg