A Dedicated Detectorist Works w/Archaeologists to Preserve Blair Mountain
On August 25, 1921 the biggest labor insurgency and largest civil uprising since the civil war began as more than 10,000 union coal miners took up arms (often small squirrel rifles!) in a battle at Blair ...
An Often Indefensible Assertion: “We’re Saving History.”
When I hear detectorists talking about "Saving History" these days I can't help but form the follow up questions in my head. Saving for whom? Saving from what? What do you think history is? Who ...
The Quick Belt System: A Good System for Metal Detecting?
EDIT - 11/14/15 - The best configuration is the 14 pocket bag, a belt module and a cobra tactical belt (not his) - it has large and small pocket plus a loop that works perfectly for ...
Authentic Civil War Shells *COMING AT YOU* Sounds and Video – Awesomeness
I gotcha covered. The video is potato, but the sound is awesome. Kudos to grant6165 on youtube for preserving history in this manner. We owe you for taking the time to upload video in 2015 rather ...
National Trust for Historic Preservation Google Hangout on Metal Detecting Cooperation
(if the above video won't play, please use this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3mej_9tSp8) This Google Hangout video was produced by National Trust for Historic Preservation was meant to correspond with their Winter 2015 edition of Preservation Magazine (linked ...
Will Cheap CM-Level GPS Replace Stakes, Strings and Tape Measures in Archaeology?
The European Space Agency's Galileo system went live today after a bunch of rocket launches and billions in investment. Sources say the system will be one of the most accurate positioning systems ever built and ...
Adding Tile GPS Key Finders on Metal Detecting Equipment
Somewhere in Jessamine County, Kentucky, there lies a Garrett Pinpointer. Lost in 2012, it is surely ruined now by snow, rain and ice. And perhaps was eaten or smashed by a cow. Or something. At ...
Could Bluetooth 5.1 (or 6.0) Transform GIS Data Collection for Archaeology?
[Edit: I've been told that "cm accuracy" may mean something different to the Bluetooth standards people than it means to those of us used to hearing "meter accuracy" (meaning +/-1 meter.) It is going to ...
Conflict Archaeology Papers of Interest from Fields of Conflict Conference 2018
The Proceedings from Fields of Conflict Conference 2018 offered two papers of particular interest to me from friends and associates. Conflict Archaeology, Material Culture, and the Role of Validation Studies in Interpreting the Past by Douglas D ...
A Day at the Inn – Detecting the Site of a Stagecoach Inn in KY
This was the first hunt at a site that was supposedly a stagecoach inn between 1790 and 1850 in South-Central Kentucky. It was well positioned between the Kentucky river and more populated areas along a ...
