Spoiled for Choice.

Things had been slow and I was nearly done with the Red field. It seemed the best targets were on the hillside. As the field leveled out I was hitting more iron and modern bullets, still no coins. I did find some old square-nails which are late 1800's to early 1900's. On Friday night the farmer burnt more fields. I was really hoping he was going to clear one field at a time so I can focus on an area before moving on but he had cleared the whole side of the koppie. Far too tempted by this open space I swung my detector over it on my way to the Red Field. Very quiet except the very occasional grunt of an iron signal. Then a nice squeaker of a signal snatched my attention. What could this be?

Best Ring Edge Button

Yet another button. This time a rather generic 4 hole button. A little research puts it as being used for various overalls and farming gear as well being used by the British Cavalry for their pants button. Dated late 1800's early 1900's. You can make up your own minds as to the origins, all I know is it's "old stuff" and that makes it an awesome find.

Other than a 1 Rand, "spendy", we didn't find anything else that weekend. What I did notice though is having rows of baby sugarcane to use as a guide and mark off as you go is actually a lot easier than having huge open space. Sometimes too much freedom means you don't know where you've been or where you need to go next.