History Hunts

Our most recent outing in Virginia yielded many different buttons. Most of these were plain, one-piece brass buttons. A few, however, were much more interesting. Two of these will be discussed below. The first is a rare Marquis de Lafayette button made to commemorate his second visit to the United States in 1824. He was a hero of the Revolutionary War and is considered a national hero in both the US and France. This button retains a heavy gold gilding on the front and bac

A few History Hunt Club members recently got together for two back to back three day outings and we had a blast. The weather was beautiful for five out of the six days. Sites ranged from small pastures to big woods and gigantic crop fields. We were on some enormous properties and the teams did a fine job locating hot spots. As a result, a very respectable number of great discoveries were made. The team make up ranged from relative newbie to old veteran detectorist. Everyo