History Hunts

metal detecting tours

March Virginia Colonial Hunt Highlights

March Virginia Colonial Hunt Highlights

Seven members of our club spent three days metal detecting and digging on several different farms searching for colonial artifacts. Once again, we were blessed with great weather! We were able to locate several areas with evidence of 1600s occupation. It is a rare and exciting occasion when you discover a site from this period in America. Highlights included: a mid to late 1600s trash pit loaded with oyster shell, tobacco pipe stems and bowls, glass and potsherds; buckles fro

March Virginia Civil War Hunt Highlights

March Virginia Civil War Hunt Highlights

Eight members of our club spent three days metal detecting on several different farms searching for Civil War artifacts. The weather was very cooperative and every day Civil War related discoveries were made. Highlights included: fired and dropped Union and Confederate bullets; railroad baggage tag and watch fobs; a Confederate imported knapsack hook; a frog from an Enfield rifle bayonet scabbard; a handmade unmarked silver turtle pendant; a heavy brass saddle shield decorati

January 2021 Ghost Town Metal Detecting Wrap Up

January 2021 Ghost Town Metal Detecting Wrap Up

Its been a busy 2021, and I completely forgot to get the highlight post up for this outing. It was a blast! We kept this one very small but some great discoveries were made just the same. We spent three days scouring the site of a mid-1800s town site. Very few of the original buildings remain today. Lots of very interesting artifacts were recovered including coins; pocket watch parts; brass gun butt plates; buttons; buckles; tobacco pipes and loads of broken pottery a