Berryville 1st Grader Discovers Civil War Artifacts
The level of Civil War action that took place in and around Clarke County, Virginia makes our area a popular place for metal detector hobbyists. But even with the abundance of battlefields, camps and skirmish sites nearby, many metal detection enthusiasts spend years searching for that one “big find†only to be forced to settle for finding relatively common artifacts like lead bullets or scattershot from exploded cannonballs. This was not the case for seven-year-old Berryville, Virginia resident Lucas Hall however. Hall and his father Gary hit the Civil War jackpot last week by finding a battle sword after just four outings with a metal detector Lucas received for his seventh birthday.
The smile on the first grader’s face really says it all; How does it feel to be seven years old and hold a genuine Civil War sabre that you dug up just down the road from your house?
“Really cool!†Lucas says with a grin.
Read full story via Clarke Daily News.
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on Nov 23 2010. Filed under Berryville News.
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