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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2590011, member: 10461&quot;]BTW, since the cat&#039;s out of the bag now, I can share a picture of the site.&nbsp; If you were to draw a hypothetical &quot;X&quot; about an inch or two below the bottom right corner of the photograph below, the coin was found about there, in a washout from the sand road outside the southern gates of the old walled cemetery.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buried within the cemetery are some Revolutionary War heroes, one of whom was (I believe) Teddy Roosevelt&#039;s ancestor.&nbsp; Across the road is the old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway,_Georgia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway,_Georgia" rel="nofollow">Midway Congregational Church</a>.&nbsp; The present building dates from the 1790s, as the British burned the previous one during the Revolution.&nbsp; During the Civil War, Federal troops quartered livestock and horses inside the cemetery enclosure.&nbsp; There is also a quaint old ghost story about how one of the slaves building the brick wall in the early 1800s killed his coworker with a brick and buried the body beneath the wall.&nbsp; A large crack formed in the wall there, visible from the church side.&nbsp; (Almost certainly utter hogwash, of course, but a fun story nonetheless.)</p><p><br /></p><p>From the artifacts found next to the coin in the washout (NOT by digging!), I deduce that the coin was dropped there in the colonial period or the early antebellum period, as determined by the gunflint and pottery I found with it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/GA_Midway_Cemetery_and_Church01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3">Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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