A week after receiving a metal detector for his seventh birthday, the gift of Lucas Hall is already bearing fruit
While he was doing a search with his father, Gary, in a property Private outside Berryville, Lucas apparently sensed a very good signal, so as to suspend the search also to the father and cause him to dig.
His intuition paid off.
about six inches deep was buried a sword used during the Civil War.
"We stopped at the sign and Lucas has said here," said Gary
"So we started digging, and not a minute later, she jumped out the sword."
"I was excited"
But the couple was not yet sure of their discovery until they began to dig deeper.
"Initially we thought it was a piece of old fence,"
"I started to pull out of the ground and when I saw the handle I cried 'Oh my God'. "
Lucas's passion for metal detecting has always been a great deal, his mother, Tina, said, after their neighbor gave him a couple of Civil War-era bullets started to learn about the world of metal detecting and was made to give a metal detector.
A Lucas also like the "Meteorite Man" - where two men seeking pieces of meteorite metal detectors.
"(The neighbor ) gave me a lot of bullets, "said Lucas." I like to dig to find them. "
" This is the most important thing right now, makes the touching disintegrate, and I want to keep this for him, "Gary said. Not We had an expert, because we are not yet sure to bring him in. "
Gary Crawford, President of the Kernstown Battlefield Association, looked at a picture of the sword.
He believes that this is a model of light cavalry saber of 1840 or 1860, but said it was too difficult to determine based on its condition where it was manufactured or by whom it was used.
The design of, Crawford said, helps to restrict the time of production.
"There's really no way to know (by those who had been used) because many of these swords were manufactured in the North before the war and stored in armories of the South"
"When the war began, only the South could make use of those weapons and distributed them to all their troops. "
Crawford said that may be missing about 18 inches of blade.
" It could still be in the ground, "Crawford said, "or may have been broken and thrown away."
Regardless of any monetary value of the saber, the family is not interested in selling the relic, said Gary.
"This is really just fun, and I want keep it that way, "he said." Lucas has no concept of the civil war, he knows only what we say "
Tina said that the saber, and other artifacts will be visible to all concerned who request them.
Lucas has also found some Civil War rifles and several bullets.
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