CheathamHill
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"Mineralized"/Rusted Civil War belt/box plate from Battlefield? AND..an intro
'Howdy'! I have been a salivating lurker for a while now..one of the silent variety who likes to gawk at things you guys find that I haven't a clue how to even START looking for. Heck....I don't even own one of them there "detectin' boxes" and at the present moment wouldn't know how to use it if I did..HOWEVER, that will change soon as I have just recently moved to a nice place on the banks of the Chattahoochee River where Sherman's army crossed and patrolled in July of '64. The bad news is on this bank it's mostly apartment complexes and restaurants..and interstates..and directly across the river on the other bank, where Schofield's army camped and skirmished, is all multi-million dollar homes and neighborhoods....the good news: a man can still dream of finding something right
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Okay now to my "find(s)"
Okay I lied...a tad bit more back story...
I am currently in the research and early writing stages of a book about a specific point of a local battlefield that was very brutal, bloody, violent and yet captivating, that lay smack dab between here where I live and another of my favorite similar fields listed as my username
I go to this location 3-5 times a week after work to clear my mind and walk the grounds, take pictures for my research, examine maps and illustrations and first hand accounts I've accumulated along the way while walking the battlefield..I am also working on a computer generated 2D and "3D" map of this location as to how it looked in 1864, so I walk as much of the battlefield daily as I can....
On this particular occasion I was in the creek that played a major role in this battle trying to determine where it originally flowed in relation to troop movement, retreat etc, and to where the Civilian Conservation Corps did some erosion work and re-routed part of it in the first half of the 20th century. Whle examining some of the stone work in the "erosion" area I looked down at the 'sand bar' I was standing on where the water had recently receeded after the flooding and saw something that didn't look like a normal flat river rock.
I was convinced that there would be no way that a famous location like this might still contain items on the "surface" in plain view. I am also not sure if this isn't just a rusty rock? or Pottery? or part of an old mill that was in the location post-war?
Can metal rust so much that it looks like this? Also as you can see in one of the pictures the top left cracked a bit..upon inspecting the "innerds" it looks like rock or clay or not? However, it seems to be 'rusting' more and more hour by hour which leads me to hope it's metal.and it 'clinks'...oh and notice the raised and almost "rusted" off "lettering" that resembles part of a 'C'.
I have included different angles of it etc.
Also found something else that resembles a nice arrowhead in another part of the creek. It is not flat but angles/slopes up and down equally on both sides of the point.... could it be?
If the first item can be identified as a 'relic' it will be handled accordingly with the people I am working with on this book project including some top local historians, etc....
I apologize for being long winded..but this is a GREAT forum! If anyone can point me to a great place to find a MD in the Atlanta area and/or if anyone wants to research and rescue any local spots I will be honored....
And again, please keep saving these quickly fading links to a past that, as time rolls swiftly by, is dissapearing as quickly as the history from whence they came....
'Howdy'! I have been a salivating lurker for a while now..one of the silent variety who likes to gawk at things you guys find that I haven't a clue how to even START looking for. Heck....I don't even own one of them there "detectin' boxes" and at the present moment wouldn't know how to use it if I did..HOWEVER, that will change soon as I have just recently moved to a nice place on the banks of the Chattahoochee River where Sherman's army crossed and patrolled in July of '64. The bad news is on this bank it's mostly apartment complexes and restaurants..and interstates..and directly across the river on the other bank, where Schofield's army camped and skirmished, is all multi-million dollar homes and neighborhoods....the good news: a man can still dream of finding something right
?Okay now to my "find(s)"
Okay I lied...a tad bit more back story...
I am currently in the research and early writing stages of a book about a specific point of a local battlefield that was very brutal, bloody, violent and yet captivating, that lay smack dab between here where I live and another of my favorite similar fields listed as my username
I go to this location 3-5 times a week after work to clear my mind and walk the grounds, take pictures for my research, examine maps and illustrations and first hand accounts I've accumulated along the way while walking the battlefield..I am also working on a computer generated 2D and "3D" map of this location as to how it looked in 1864, so I walk as much of the battlefield daily as I can....
On this particular occasion I was in the creek that played a major role in this battle trying to determine where it originally flowed in relation to troop movement, retreat etc, and to where the Civilian Conservation Corps did some erosion work and re-routed part of it in the first half of the 20th century. Whle examining some of the stone work in the "erosion" area I looked down at the 'sand bar' I was standing on where the water had recently receeded after the flooding and saw something that didn't look like a normal flat river rock.
I was convinced that there would be no way that a famous location like this might still contain items on the "surface" in plain view. I am also not sure if this isn't just a rusty rock? or Pottery? or part of an old mill that was in the location post-war?
Can metal rust so much that it looks like this? Also as you can see in one of the pictures the top left cracked a bit..upon inspecting the "innerds" it looks like rock or clay or not? However, it seems to be 'rusting' more and more hour by hour which leads me to hope it's metal.and it 'clinks'...oh and notice the raised and almost "rusted" off "lettering" that resembles part of a 'C'.
I have included different angles of it etc.
Also found something else that resembles a nice arrowhead in another part of the creek. It is not flat but angles/slopes up and down equally on both sides of the point.... could it be?
If the first item can be identified as a 'relic' it will be handled accordingly with the people I am working with on this book project including some top local historians, etc....
I apologize for being long winded..but this is a GREAT forum! If anyone can point me to a great place to find a MD in the Atlanta area and/or if anyone wants to research and rescue any local spots I will be honored....
And again, please keep saving these quickly fading links to a past that, as time rolls swiftly by, is dissapearing as quickly as the history from whence they came....
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