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We go out there, there's just stuff laying around.

There's also a ton of archeologists out there because they are there to collect and preserve what they can of South Carolina history.

And so it was pretty cool and it was also very lucky.

I found a bunch of fossilized cow bones.

My brother found a button.

My stepdad found a coin and my mom found this thing.

It was a little metal 54.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

So this guy walks over and he's like, hey, you know, I'm a local archaeologist.

What have you got?

I can tell you about it.

And so we show him everything and I show him my cow bones and he's like, oh, yeah.

So these are here because they would roast entire cows on the beach and that's how they would feed the army.

So there's a ton of fossilized cow bones that were like coming up out of the sand.

And then he explained, you know, like the button was like a Civil War period button, but like he couldn't tell us like exactly what it was from.

And he looked at the coin and he gave my brother or my dad an approximation of like when the coin was from.

And then when my mom showed him the 54, he was like, wow, this is a really special find.

These were on the helmets of all the soldiers because we do have one of the old uniforms still intact.

So we know exactly what their uniforms looked like.

And she had found one of the little metal 54s that would have been on a soldier's cap.