Detecting 1750 Homesite, Native American Pottery Shards Found!

FoundInNC

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Today me and Bubba went detecting at a 1750 home site. We did a walk around the field and located a foundation of another house and lots of pottery shards from the 17 and 18 hundreds. Mixed in with the pottery shards were 2 pieces of confirmed Native American pottery. My best non ferrous signal was a brass toe plate. My second best relic was the valve out of my spigot that I found 2 days ago. It was about 200 feet from where I dug the body of the spigot. I also got a few random pieces of brass. One of them is a harmonica reed, the other two are unconfirmed. I also found an interesting pewter cast hollow bodied animal of some sort. I have never seen anything like it but I am sure that it is old. Lastly I would like to share the picture of the button that Bubba found 2 days ago. Is broken in half but it must have been done a long time ago because when he dug it up it was already in 2 pieces. The button is from the Bingham School in Mebane North Carolina and is depressed channel, raised letter style backmark.

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digging440yrs

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1750 -----AWESOME
 

John Boy

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I found one just like you found there next to the harmonica reed.I would like to know what it is to.Thanks for the pics.Nice finds
 

JimDon

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Sweet finds. I really love the Bingham School button.
 

jamesbibb

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the item in the middle is from a metal bucket. it was attatched to the side then the hadle wire attatched in it
 

Erik in NJ

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Great finds as usual! Wish we had your NC weather up here! :)
 

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