Without the use of metal detectors. Anybody ever have any luck finding stuff out in the open? That guy Aquachigger on youtube finds bullets all day long poking out of creek beds. Has me wondering about walking the banks at Bull Run.

The removal of ANYTHING from the park is punishable by law.

Removal of Bullets, sticks, rocks, a single blade of grass will have you locked up.
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Growing up in Alexandria, my backyard had an old creek bed in it. I would find bullets and other metal relics because there was an encampment nearby. Story was that the soldiers were issued 10 bullets, but the pouch they carried them in only held 8. So almost everyone would just throw 2 away on the ground.

AlexVa Wrote:
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> Growing up in Alexandria, my backyard had an old
> creek bed in it. I would find bullets and other
> metal relics because there was an encampment
> nearby. Story was that the soldiers were issued
> 10 bullets, but the pouch they carried them in
> only held 8. So almost everyone would just throw 2
> away on the ground.

Whereabouts?

You know back in 2000 when I heard an ancient civil war relic which was thought gone and last forever was being lifted out of relatively shallow waters outside of Charleston, SC...my immediate thought was Strom Thurmond had slipped in the bathtub.

I had no idea the H.L. Hunley had been found!

Officer Friendly Wrote:
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> The removal of ANYTHING from the park is
> punishable by law.
>
> Removal of Bullets, sticks, rocks, a single blade
> of grass will have you locked up.

Discretion is a good policy.

I might have a few flintlocks in my bowels.

hjhj Wrote:
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> AlexVa Wrote:
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> > Growing up in Alexandria, my backyard had an
> old
> > creek bed in it. I would find bullets and other
> > metal relics because there was an encampment
> > nearby. Story was that the soldiers were
> issued
> > 10 bullets, but the pouch they carried them in
> > only held 8. So almost everyone would just throw
> 2
> > away on the ground.
>
> Whereabouts?

Near the Virginia Episcopal Seminary. Huge Civil War hospital on the site, and McClellan used it as HQ for the army briefly. In the building with the tower.

AlexVa Wrote:
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> Growing up in southeast,I would find bullets and other
> metal relics because there was a homeless encampment
> nearby.

AlexVa Wrote:
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> hjhj Wrote:
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> > AlexVa Wrote:
> >
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> > > Growing up in Alexandria, my backyard had an
> > old
> > > creek bed in it. I would find bullets and
> other
> > > metal relics because there was an encampment
> > > nearby. Story was that the soldiers were
> > issued
> > > 10 bullets, but the pouch they carried them
> in
> > > only held 8. So almost everyone would just
> throw
> > 2
> > > away on the ground.
> >
> > Whereabouts?
>
> Near the Virginia Episcopal Seminary. Huge Civil
> War hospital on the site, and McClellan used it as
> HQ for the army briefly. In the building with the
> tower.


We found an old Civil War-era gun barrel stuck into the ground near where they built Mark Center. Used to explore in the woods there all the time as kids. Must have been done intentionally since it was buried deep and straight up and down all the way to what would have been the action. Not sure that there were any battles in that area to be a grave. Somebody may have just banged an old barrel into the ground as a marker or for whatever reason. Kind of cool in any case. We took it to Fort Ward and one of the guys there confirmed that was what it was. Don't recall now exactly what type of rifle but he could tell by looking at it.

i found a cheese sammich by an oak tree
at bull run park. it was moldy and definitly
revolutionary war era.

Alex Andria Wrote:

> We found an old Civil War-era gun barrel stuck
> into the ground near where they built Mark Center.
> Used to explore in the woods there all the time
> as kids. Must have been done intentionally since
> it was buried deep and straight up and down all
> the way to what would have been the action. Not
> sure that there were any battles in that area to
> be a grave. Somebody may have just banged an old
> barrel into the ground as a marker or for whatever
> reason. Kind of cool in any case. We took it to
> Fort Ward and one of the guys there confirmed that
> was what it was. Don't recall now exactly what
> type of rifle but he could tell by looking at it.


It was probably marking a property corner, pretty common practice back in the day

There are still tons of relics all over northern Virginia and into the west side of Montgomery County. The key is finding an encampment site that has not been found or thoroughly hunted. Many camp sites have been developed and there went the relics under asphalt and houses. There are wooded areas near the river where no metal detector has touched. The key is to find the property owner and getting permission. Chances are that the area has been hunted but not thoroughly.

Battle sites are way inferior to camp sites or places where soldiers spent the winter. Not only are battlefields almost always national parks and illegal to hunt there is never anything to be found. The campsites are the places to go which takes research to find.

Was expecting this thread to be about Nancy Pelosi.

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> Was expecting this thread to be about Nancy
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I tried to join the Marines during the Spanish American War.

I don’t remember where, but I think I was a boy scout at the time, visiting a civil war site in Penn. I found a canon muzzle and human bone (femur ball part of the ball and joint in the hip). I think I hid my findings so I don’t think I ever had permission to take them, but I still have both. I’m sure they each have interesting stories.

I also found a human femur while searching for relics.
It was in Franconia not far from where the train comes through.
Pretty sure this particular relic was left by a local contractor, though.