Buckle and Button
Civi War era buckle and button exposed on the surface of a freshly dug pile of dirt at a construction site in Oxon Hill, Maryland and found by me in the mid 1970s. At the time I was not looking for artifacts, but instead was looking for any interesting geology that might have been exposed in the excavations. During the Civil War the nation's capital was surrounded by various army camps and forts and this location must have been one of them. I have often wondered what else I might have found if I had had a metal detector with me at the time.
Buckle and Button
Civi War era buckle and button exposed on the surface of a freshly dug pile of dirt at a construction site in Oxon Hill, Maryland and found by me in the mid 1970s. At the time I was not looking for artifacts, but instead was looking for any interesting geology that might have been exposed in the excavations. During the Civil War the nation's capital was surrounded by various army camps and forts and this location must have been one of them. I have often wondered what else I might have found if I had had a metal detector with me at the time.