We spent the day on two large fields. There were not a lot of targets but most of them were interesting finds. There were the usual plain buttons and hunks of lead scrap.Today, we each found some of the more interesting buttons. I have a military button of the 71st Regiment, a button with a shield design, a complete crotal bell (bronze. looks like a large jingle bell, for farm animals to wear), and a quarter cut hammered silver coin. Clarence has a neat old key, some sort of a decorative mount, several interesting buttons, musket balls,an old (for us) pocket knife, and some decorative buckle fragments.
The big find today came from one of the two other teams of seven that are here with us. One of the Chicago guys found what we have all wanted....a gold Roman coin. This one is from 50AD,about the size of a US nickle, and looks like it just came from the coin dealer. What a find! Maybe it has a friend and we will find another by the time we leave. Meanwhile, we are beat tonight. All I can think of is a hot shower and bed. Tomorrow we are at it again at 8am. See y'all back here tomorrow.
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