I decided to put in a hour hunt in before work one day at a wooded area on some public land that I was given the “ok” to do some digging on here in SW Pennsylvania. There used to be a few homes on this property that show on an 1872 atlas. I know this area has been detected before, but figure I’ve found a lot with the EQUINOX in places I thought were picked dry. So I’m fighting through brush and snow, I’ve spent about 5 hours at this spot in the past month, digging nothing but a 1913 wheat cent and junk. Nothing really old. I got a soda can signal, already dug plenty of those but had a gut feeling I should dig this one. So I flip my plug open and see the round piece about the size of a soda can, so I grab it to throw it in my pouch with all my junk, and notice it had some weight to it. So I brushed it a little and could tell there was something on it but figured since it was cast iron it couldn’t be anything good. I get home that evening and rinse it off and saw the eagle on it, I figured it was a military related grave marker of some sort considering there is a cemetery not too far away. I still appreciated it, and put it away in my cabinet for a few weeks. One night I’m in bed scrolling through Facebook, when I see in one of my metal detecting related Facebook groups, a guy posted a picture of him finding the same thing. He put “a civil war Breastplate I found today” I jump out of bed waking up my wife to run downstairs and investigate, it was the same thing as that guys and all the ones on google. Pretty exciting moment, I’m glad I dug that soda can signal and glad I hung onto that thing!
Adam – Pennsylvania, USA
