This stream was used by soldiers to meet their camp needs.
Knowing that most relic hunters wouldn’t have searched this miserable spot very long, it fit the definition of past relic hunter’s weakness number 2. Tossed from passing Two months later, heavy rain returned the swampy vehicles, years of accumulated beer and soda cans were portion of the ravine to its foreverywhere beside the road. It mer “boots only” landscape. A th was proof positive of my “exwindow to the 18 century was cuses/laziness” theory. closed and time was needed to Multi-tasking, my explorecharge my enthusiasm. Holiration consisted of shuffling days passed and, on an unseaalong, monitoring detector sigsonably warm drizzly February nals while tediously filling a day, I awoke my wife with a plastic garbage bag with a vari“grin and talk.” Double-checkety of metallic trash items. Only ing my gear, before I knew it the an occasional vehicle whizzing highway’s white line was weavby interrupted the boring routine. ing a hypnotic trance. Digging all signals, including One hundred and ten miles nails, my Minelab’s meter conlater, a soggy morning search firmed a 4½ inch deep target. Reproduced nothing. Detector Brass cartridge box plate of the moving an odd-looking piece of in hand, I began searching British 7th Royal Fusiliers. metal from the loose black soil, the blacktop road’s perimeter.
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