I have had over 48 years to either make… or avoid… most of the mistakes that cause metal detectorists to miss great finds on the sites that they hunt while learning the “tricks of the trade.” And even if you happen to be a grizzled old veteran detectorist of many years-experience, reading this, that thinks…
Traditionally, the term “Fields of Glory” has been applied to battlefields where brave men have struggled to wrest victory from the ever-present threat of defeat. The more I pondered on that, however, the more I found it an appropriate term to describe the metal detecting sites scattered across countless square miles of fields and pastures…
The Civil War battlefield of Perryville, Kentucky will always have special significance for me, not only because it was the site of the biggest Civil War battle fought in the state, (and one of the twenty biggest in the whole war!) but because it was there that I found my very first Civil War artifact…
I have been hunting Civil War relics since 1976. My relic hunting ventures… and Adventures… of which there have been a goodly number… have taken me across 22 states involved in the Civil War directly and have seen me swing my detector on over 140 different Civil War camps and battlefields. My relic finds currently…
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