Heirloom Excavations

Heirloom Excavations Metal detecting and recovering long lost history from our past

I haven't posted here in a while, so I thought I'd start up again, here are my finds from my last hunt. Finds from about...
06/06/2016

I haven't posted here in a while, so I thought I'd start up again, here are my finds from my last hunt.

Finds from about 4 or 5 hours of hunting this weekend, found 5 bullets one of which is an awesome carved sharps, a neat watch part, harmonica reed, iron buckle, what looks to be a broken J hook, and what I think is the top of a powder flask!!

Had a great weekend hunting a new permission!! I ended up with 10 bullets including two carved ones and a sharps. I also...
05/17/2016

Had a great weekend hunting a new permission!! I ended up with 10 bullets including two carved ones and a sharps. I also got a crushed gs eagle, a sword belt rivet, and part of a spoon!! All of this with a 102 fever! Nothing will stop me from saving history!

Had a great day yesterday at a civil war battle site! I ended up with 7 bullets (one was on top!) including my first spe...
04/18/2016

Had a great day yesterday at a civil war battle site! I ended up with 7 bullets (one was on top!) including my first spencer bullet from this spot, camp lead, an epaulette scale, and a Cairo and Grand Junction railroad tag!!

Finds from my last hunt
04/14/2016

Finds from my last hunt

Finds from yesterday and today
04/11/2016

Finds from yesterday and today

This past weekends finds, 12 bullets including a beautiful ringtail sharps carbine bullet, a shredded staff officers but...
03/23/2016

This past weekends finds, 12 bullets including a beautiful ringtail sharps carbine bullet, a shredded staff officers button, and a whole burnside carbine casing, along with the usual camp lead and broken brass objects

Recent finds since October of last year, it's all from one spot!! About 75 bullets, three US plates, a gold company lett...
03/23/2016

Recent finds since October of last year, it's all from one spot!! About 75 bullets, three US plates, a gold company letter, a NC button, fleam, knapsack hook and others relics. This was all found on private property which I had permission from the land owner to metal detect on. The site had a small scale battle and a mid sized camp on it.

Had a good day hunting for civil war relics yesterday! I got four burnside carbine bullets, two 44 colts, a game piece, ...
02/21/2016

Had a good day hunting for civil war relics yesterday! I got four burnside carbine bullets, two 44 colts, a game piece, a 44 pr 50 caliber round ball, and an 1853 seated dime

This was the first hole of sunday, a complete US buckle! It's was 13" deep, and was found with the garrett AT Pro! A vid...
01/27/2016

This was the first hole of sunday, a complete US buckle! It's was 13" deep, and was found with the garrett AT Pro!
A video of my recovery can be seen on youtube by clicking the link below :)
https://youtu.be/4bDkoEuQ1n8

11/27/2015

Happy thanksgiving everyone, hope yall had a great day!

Another grouping of bullets dug from west tennessee
11/03/2015

Another grouping of bullets dug from west tennessee

Finds for the day, my first two smith carbine bullets, and a coin ring made from a seated quarter
11/02/2015

Finds for the day, my first two smith carbine bullets, and a coin ring made from a seated quarter

Found this beauty yesterday!! An 1840 half dime!!
10/26/2015

Found this beauty yesterday!! An 1840 half dime!!

09/07/2015

A nice eagle I coat button I found today!

Found this general service eagle button this weekend, also got a tear drop st. Louis arsenal 36 cal bullet, a button bac...
09/03/2015

Found this general service eagle button this weekend, also got a tear drop st. Louis arsenal 36 cal bullet, a button back, a soldiers mechanical pencil, a broken sling hook, and some camp lead

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