Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: My First Confederate Button
I found this C.S.A. button Wednesday afternoon. I had placed the button in a cup of water for cleaning, but couldn't wait to take a pic and share!
Here are a few more things I've found from the same camp...
Bit Boss ONE
Bit Boss TWO
Sling Buckle ONE
Sling Buckle TWO
Found several different brass buckles...this one was small...Penny there for size...
Belt Plate Keeper ONE...DON'T HAVE A PICTURE OF THE SECOND ONE YET!
My little woman
Cool Little Buckle of Sorts
Wedding Band with inscription on the inside
Daddy found this button...
he also found this scabbard tip...
We have also probably found over 150-200 bullets all together on this site, a few button backs, another button unreadable by age and environment, a soldiers ID badge, carved bulltets, hammered bullets, pieces of spurs, pieces of guns, and a lot more....I would post more pics, but it is getting late and I need to be in bed...lol
We found the site about a month ago and have hit it at least twice a week ever since....It has been the best site I have found...
LOL, How's Tennessee treating ya? Looks like it's treating you VERY well! Thanks for posting the pictures and keep it coming! We all love images of the finds!
Hey thanks guys. I've got a few more pics from that camp that I will try and post tomorrow (Sunday)...like I said, we found it about a month ago and it has been amazzzzzzzzzzing! Tennessee always treats me well
Ok...Took me a little longer to get back then I thought it would....Here are some more pics from them camp..Some are my finds, some are my dads, some are a friend of mines....but all are great finds....
Soldier ID Tag...
Soldier ID Tag...
Piece of a spur
Hard to see in picture, but there is a bullet turned around backwards and mashed in to this spencer casing...Pretty cool...
Carved Bullet?
Carved Bullet Again?
Found this nice point while digging a target..
Saddle Shield
Part of an old clock
Here are some pictures of finds from different days at this camp...some finds are mine, some are not. There were also a couple days where we found lots of just bullets and I didn't take pictures....Here ya go!
I can't wait to go back...I was planing on going this afternoon after work, but it is cold and raining....I guess I'll have to wait...
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject: Some Killer finds there my friend...
Go back to were you found the sling buckles, there should be another bat wing and possibly two belt adjusters there as well. If the hole rig is there there should also be two iron swivel hooks one for each belt. I would also go back and dig every thing were you found the belt keepers, at least within a ten to fourteen foot radious. Looks as though you have a lot of camp drops or re-supply area were stuff was stripped and dropped.
Sorry, I would have to say you ID badge is more like a RR baggage tag or hotel tag of the sort. But definetely not an ID badge. You and your Dad have got a very nice site and I would slow way down and dig almost every signal in the area your finding the plates. You also got a nice keg spiqout that looks to be complete. Once again congrats on an Awsome post and some killer relics! HH, Erle from Va.
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: Some Killer finds there my friend...
Erle from Va. wrote:
Go back to were you found the sling buckles, there should be another bat wing and possibly two belt adjusters there as well. If the hole rig is there there should also be two iron swivel hooks one for each belt. I would also go back and dig every thing were you found the belt keepers, at least within a ten to fourteen foot radious. Looks as though you have a lot of camp drops or re-supply area were stuff was stripped and dropped.
Sorry, I would have to say you ID badge is more like a RR baggage tag or hotel tag of the sort. But definetely not an ID badge. You and your Dad have got a very nice site and I would slow way down and dig almost every signal in the area your finding the plates. You also got a nice keg spiqout that looks to be complete. Once again congrats on an Awsome post and some killer relics! HH, Erle from Va.
Hey thanks. I've had some folks look at the badge and they said that it was definately an ID badge...It says "to identify me", and "notify my family", and it is a life insurance company's name on it...so I figure that it is some sort of ID tag....No matter what it is...it is still a very cool find...I'll take ten more of them if they keep letting me dig them!
It's not necessarily an ID badge. But, it is a tag for the Insurance Company to ID the person who is wearing it. Insurance companies started using these around the 1920s.
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