Bottle Dump Treasure!

Hey wer'e all keyed up ready for those pics

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It's like pulling teeth. My son went back to a site we found 2 years ago and found a gold clock, very small, and a civil war button today and now he can't sit still long enough to take the photos. So we're going to the site tomorrow. This is in Colorado so Civil War items are weird. I had found a 50 ca. ball bullet from the Confederate arsenal 2 years back and we were stumped. Now we are really wondering what's going on.

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We went back to this site yesterday. We hadn't even made it into the park yet when Ranger Rick comes up and says we better not be planning on metal detecting in his park. I told him he was mistaken and that it is legal in every park in this city, Colorado Springs, to metal detect. He said that we weren't even allowed to leave the trails made of cement anymore because we would damage the environment. He then said that 1 1/2 million visitors come to the park every year and if everybody was to walk off the trails the entire park would be ruined. I stuck to my guns and said we had every right to detect responsibly and that we were not new to tis thing. I have been active in a treasure hunting club for over 21 years and know what I'm doing. Just to calm him down, I used some "green speak" for him and said we were environmentally aware and would leave no footprint. It calmed him down. He said there were some invasive plant species in the park and that if we walked through them we might pick up seeds with our shoes and socks and spread them. I said that I knew there was Spurgeweed growing there and that we were aware of it. He calmed down some more. Then I said we were actulally just using the walkway to get to the site which is actually off the park premises and in the area of he neighboring property. He said oh gee then everything is fine with him just as long as we didn't dig in the park and walk off the trails.

You all need to be aware of the laws BEFORE you go to a site. Most of the time the "authorities" have no clue to the laws governing metal detecting and will err on the side of arresting you rather than messing up and letting you get away with something they aren't sure of. Because I had gone to the City Hall to research the legality of detecting in the city parks, I was a step ahead of him. The greenies be damned. There is not a single law (yet) about leaing the trails, digging in any park, or forbidding detecting, and until there is, no matter ow green their attitude is it is never an excuse for dodging the law they are supposed to be upholding. Most of the people busted for detecting get off once they go to court because the judges will ask what law the person was arrested under, and the rangers never have anything to back up the bogus arrest. If you are sure of what you are saying and doing, don't be a dick about it, but stand your ground, beg to disagree with the park ranger or the flunkies they hire for the summer, and do your thing.

So we hit the spot yesterday and found one or two interesting items including some weird looking holder for what we think might have been a thermometer or some other mometer that was silver plated. By the way, everything we found was from London, England. We had figured before that the area was where the artisans building a mansion (castle) for a former London hoitie toitie woman whose husband was a city founder, and she insisted everything be authentically British. So the artisans came over from England and brought their English items with them. We found 2 tobacco tins that were for British tobacco and many other items from there, but most of it was junk. Once again, photos when my son gets them.

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Well my son took the pictures, but rather then transferring them to me, he started his own account. As soon as he sends me his user name, I will link to those pictures.
OK, I got my son's user name and he has posted the bottles on his page. The link to it is:

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It's a long one, but if you left click on it, highlight it, then you could just put it on your search or url address line and it will take you to the page with the bottle photos.
Oh good. It came up as a direct link so all you have to do is click on it.

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