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History Hunts

metal detecting tours


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...


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...


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...


February 2021 Mississippi Civil War History Hunt Highlights
A group of seven History Hunt Club members got together this month for a three day metal detecting tour on an enormous farm with quite a...


January 2021 Texas Prehistory Hunt Highlights!
Recently, some of our members got together for two days of screening sand on the site of an ancient Native American camp located on...


January 2021 Deep South Hunt Wrap Up
We kicked off 2021, with a small group three day metal detecting tour in the Deep South. The weather held out for two out of three days...


December 2020 History Hunt Wrap Up
Two small groups of History Hunters got together for two short metal detecting outings recently and everyone made some interesting...


History in a Button!
Our most recent outing in Virginia yielded many different buttons. Most of these were plain, one-piece brass buttons. A few, however,...


November 2020 Virginia History Hunt Wrap Up
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...


October 2020 Virginia History Hunt Wrap Up
Recently a small group of History Hunters got together for four days to metal detect some new sites. The weather cooperated for the most...
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