Today I went with the Office of State Archaeology to the Alamance Battleground for a dig. I arrived early so I watched the video of the Battle of Alamance which happened before the Civil War and American Revolution. Basically the farms raged again the government and a bunch of people got killed. The first task I did was laying out the grid. Placing flags 1-24 and A-Y and painting the grass. Next I participated in pervenance. This is cataloging the data. Then they let me have a metal detector. I found a washer and a pop tab. They had a metal detector club there helping them. That's right, a club! There was at least 25 people with the club. Then it was back to more pervenance and then I tried my hand at metal detecting again. This time I hit the jackpot. I found a fired rifle ball. Awesome!
My big find!
No I did not find the cool button.
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