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You are not allowed to view links.Please Register or LoginThis is a news story about trying to determine if an earthen mound is a CW fortification.Part I liked the best was the comparison of 2 different guys with their detectors.Differing views emerge on whether Collierville site was Civil War fort. . . "Someone moved a lot of dirt and it's in a square. Three sides are six to seven feet high. ... It faces the railroad tracks. It makes perfect sense and is a great location for a fort. ... They are guarding the entrance into Memphis, Germantown and Collierville to protect the Union troops." . . . . He recalled searching the site with three others about 10 years ago and not finding anything. "But metal detectors are better now," he said.His newer equipment beeped several times during a brief sweep. But the objects were nothing more than aluminum trash.But another veteran Civil War artifact hunter, Charlie Wiggins of Collierville, has a gut feeling the manmade ridges are Civil War earthworks."I have seen, in over 30 years I've been doing this, a lot of fortifications," Wiggins said. "It's got the style, I'll put it like that."Wiggins said he has found war relics there."I was able to locate three 36-caliber pistol bullets of the correct vintage out of that earthwork," he said."I did not hunt the banks of that earthworks. Didn't need to because I was having such luck behind it." . . . . . Linkback: You are not allowed to view links.Please Register or Loginhttp://www.thunting.com/smf/index.php/topic,1533.msg12938.html#msg12938
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