Post Your Favorite Iron Find

[romeo-1]

Let's see your best and favorite iron find...

Until I find my cannonball this trade axe is my fave. I actually found three this year but this is the first.

 

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[BuckleBoy]

Here's my favorite iron find, followed by BuckleDad's favorite iron find.

Kentucky Rifle lock plate:





Toy hatchet head:

 

[romeo-1]

Keep them coming...I know that iron is underrated but I've also seen some great iron finds.

 

[Don in SJ]

I have a few that I really like, and you are 100% correct, iron relics are underrated, for those who always never dig a big iron reading, could be missing out on a super relic find.

The car crank handle is cool, wish I could remember where I have it stored


The cast iron container, has been in my display cabinet for years and is one of my favorite iron relics (wish I could remember where I found it)


The Iron Trivets I think are my favorites, you do not see many posted at all. I have three, the smaller one is perhaps a tad newer, early 1800s but the other two I have I believe are 1700s. They have Tudor Rose designs on them. Only have photos of the two I conserved. The third one is still in a box in the garage, someday I will do electrolysis to that one also.


Don

 

[Iron Patch]

French 12 pounder found in the Fall of 2004 with 18 French Marine buttons. I also know the historic fort the ball is from.

 

[romeo-1]

French 12 pounder found in the Fall of 2004 with 18 French Marine buttons. I also know the historic fort the ball is from.

Did that come from the site I found the Navy button two fields over?

 

[dwayne sueno]

included this in my 2010 review- half a toy ox and cart from an early American cellar hole that produced a couple coppers and a Spanish silver.
can't remember if this was on top of the ground or if it was some of the "big iron" I was moving to see what was underneath.

 

[RW]

Iver Johnson model 6469 hammerless revolver manufactured between 1901 and 1904

 

[romeo-1]

Iver Johnson model 6469 hammerless revolver manufactured between 1901 and 1904

Nice clean up!

 

[Iron Patch]

French 12 pounder found in the Fall of 2004 with 18 French Marine buttons. I also know the historic fort the ball is from.

Did that come from the site I found the Navy button two fields over?

Yes if... we drove through the first field (or walked - can't remember), you turned on the detector and found the button, and the next field over is the one. Basically as far as you can walk until you hit the trees.

 

[thrillathahunt]

I guess my favorite iron find is this stirrup.

 

[romeo-1]

French 12 pounder found in the Fall of 2004 with 18 French Marine buttons. I also know the historic fort the ball is from.

Did that come from the site I found the Navy button two fields over?

Yes if... we drove through the first field (or walked - can't remember), you turned on the detector and found the button, and the next field over is the one. Basically as far as you can walk until you hit the trees.

Yep!

 

[Iron Patch]

French 12 pounder found in the Fall of 2004 with 18 French Marine buttons. I also know the historic fort the ball is from.

Did that come from the site I found the Navy button two fields over?

Yes if... we drove through the first field (or walked - can't remember), you turned on the detector and found the button, and the next field over is the one. Basically as far as you can walk until you hit the trees.

Yep!

It's a drag targets are thin now because those fields were great! It's where I dug my early buckle, nice 30 Deniers, gold snake ring, some RPs, and a whole lot more. Today is the first day you really can't hunt and I'm already anxious for Spring.

 

[HISPAN]

This is my best and one of the most recent.
a cannon ball I was waiting there on the surface of the forest hidden in fallen leaves and around the fort from where it was released, in the mountain ... was a great time.

 

[derfel]

This is a17th - 19th C fire steel or 'strike-a-light'. Fire-steels were used before the introduction of friction matches to kindle a fire. They were struck with a flint in order to produce sparks, which were directed on to dry tinder or a small piece of wool.

 

[BuckleBoy]

derfel,

I like this fire steel Very much!

 

[Kirk PA]

My favorite is this Colonial lathing hatchet. It was dug on a Colonial farm in 2008.

Kirk

 

[55th Massachusetts]

Cache of Confederate Georgia Bridle Cutting Pikes.........it was a bunch!!
REB

 

[Iron Patch]

Cache of Confederate Georgia Bridle Cutting Pikes.........it was a bunch!!
REB

The effort you put in to take that picture was worth every second! What a memory that must be, especially that you have it frozen in time like that.

I think we'll probably regret never taking any pictures on our hunts.

 

[romeo-1]

This is mine romeo. Also the 1st trade axe I found, and my best so far.

Nice one Climac...good to see ya!