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Last November, I attended Diggin’ In Virginia XLVII at Spillman Farm, my third visit to this site and eighteenth relic hunt overall with the organization. Sp...

Last week, I attended Diggin' In Virginia XLV at Brandy Rock Farm. This was my seventeenth hunt with the organization, my fifth at Brandy Rock, and my first ...

Earlier this week, I traveled up to Culpeper, Virginia, to take part in Diggin’ In Virginia XLV at Brandy Rock Farm. This was my seventeenth DIV relic hunt a...

On April 6-8, 2018, I attended my sixteenth Diggin' In Virginia relic hunt--this one held at Coles Hill. This was the organization's fifth trip to the site a...

This past weekend I attended Diggin' In Virginia XL at River Land Farm and Woodbourne Farm. This was my fifteenth hunt with the organization and the first ti...

Hi all! For some reason, I never got around to publishing my story on Diggin' In Virginia 34, which has been in my drafts for nearly two years now...better l...

I've always had a knack for exploration, even when I was a little kid. About seven years ago, I was walking along a creek bed in the woods that ran near my h...

This past weekend, I attended Diggin' In Virginia 39 at Ratrie Farm. This is the organization's third time at the site and my second (check out my story from...

Hi all! This past weekend I attended Diggin' In Virginia 38. The hunt this fall was located just outside of Warrenton and was the site of an artillery exchan...

This past weekend I traveled back to Culpeper, Virginia to participate in another Diggin' In Virginia Civil War relic hunt. This particular DIV was a back-to...

This past weekend I traveled back to Culpeper, VA, in anticipation for Diggin' In Virginia XXXV, my eleventh hunt with the organization. But for all of us wh...

This relic hunt took place back on November 15-17, 2015, but I'm sending this story out now in anticipation for a busy March. Coles Hill was the site of Fede...

Patience is a virtue when it comes to relic hunting. Don't expect to find "gold" (neither literally nor figuratively) every time you get a signal. A good maj...

Most of the sites that I have hunted for relics, to the untrained eye, look like nothing more than some woods, farmland, and cow pastures. Sure, today that's...