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Metal Detecting for Rare Civil War Buttons Relics Bullets

We are metal detecting for rare Civil War bullet buttons and other relics. In this video, we are using the Minelab Equinox 800, Teknetics T2, and XP Dues. This is a continuation from Episode 4 where ...
Reuters

Beware the Civil War relic: It could be stolen - or a fake

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - With 250,000 visitors expected to converge on the Gettysburg battlefields this week, historians and antiquarians say the 150th anniversary of the clash that ...
The Washington Post

Bullets From History Add Up in Va. Fields

PORT REPUBLIC, Va. -- -- PORT REPUBLIC, Va. -- Bennie Cupp bought his first metal detector in the 1960s and has been collecting Civil War bullets ever since. He has about 2,000 bullets -- in buckets ...
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Why Civil War Bullets and Buttons Still Hide Beneath the Ground

Beneath the soil still lie echoes of war. Our metal detectors led us to rare Civil War relics buttons, bullets, and fragments left behind more than 150 years ago. Each discovery is a reminder of lives ...
FOX13 Memphis

Boy finds Civil War-era bullets in backyard

One boy found quite a historical keepsake in his Gold Hill, North Carolina, backyard last week. Eight-year old Macallister Fraley was using a metal detector in the backyard of his home when he found ...