AirmetTango
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I know I’ve said this in a few of my posts before, but I continue to be amazed by the weird streaks and/or coincidences that crop up in this hobby on a pretty regular basis! This time, it’s marbles...
In late March, forum member Dan B. invited me out to hunt one of his field permissions with him - at some point during the hunt, the topic of marbles came up, with me mentioning I had never found one in my 2.5 years of detecting. “But”, I said, “I think it’d be pretty cool to get one eventually”. That was March 20, judging by the time stamp on the pictures of my finds from that hunt.
So naturally, while hunting a farm field site just days later on March 24, I was amused and amazed to find my first marble sitting right on the surface, a small, multicolored glass beauty:
That was cool, but it didn’t end there - next came an old clay marble on the surface of a farm field. Then another glass marble came out embedded in my plug while digging another target. More clay marbles, including a huge “shooter” in a farm field...then another came out in a plug. Long story short, from the end of March to early June, maybe 2.5 months, I went from zero marbles to 9 - five of them just in the last couple weeks! I even got twin green glass marbles out of a field on the same evening! For a little while, I felt like I couldn’t go on a hunt without bagging a marble! And I vastly underestimated how fun it would be to find these little gems - I’m truly thrilled with each one. Then while researching the big shooter marble (I’d never seen one so large!), I ran across this cool article that made me appreciate them even more:
The Secret Life of Farmland Marbles by Chris Bennett
Fascinating article that vividly portrays how the game of marbles was much more intertwined with farm life than I could possibly have imagined before!
Anyway, here’s a few pics of my recent marble finds, with a group shot at the end:
In late March, forum member Dan B. invited me out to hunt one of his field permissions with him - at some point during the hunt, the topic of marbles came up, with me mentioning I had never found one in my 2.5 years of detecting. “But”, I said, “I think it’d be pretty cool to get one eventually”. That was March 20, judging by the time stamp on the pictures of my finds from that hunt.
So naturally, while hunting a farm field site just days later on March 24, I was amused and amazed to find my first marble sitting right on the surface, a small, multicolored glass beauty:
That was cool, but it didn’t end there - next came an old clay marble on the surface of a farm field. Then another glass marble came out embedded in my plug while digging another target. More clay marbles, including a huge “shooter” in a farm field...then another came out in a plug. Long story short, from the end of March to early June, maybe 2.5 months, I went from zero marbles to 9 - five of them just in the last couple weeks! I even got twin green glass marbles out of a field on the same evening! For a little while, I felt like I couldn’t go on a hunt without bagging a marble! And I vastly underestimated how fun it would be to find these little gems - I’m truly thrilled with each one. Then while researching the big shooter marble (I’d never seen one so large!), I ran across this cool article that made me appreciate them even more:
The Secret Life of Farmland Marbles by Chris Bennett
Fascinating article that vividly portrays how the game of marbles was much more intertwined with farm life than I could possibly have imagined before!
Anyway, here’s a few pics of my recent marble finds, with a group shot at the end:
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