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Yesterday's Colonial - Quantity and Quality - Colonial Spur and Charles II Button??
My good pal Bill D and I got back out yesterday to our latest colonial site. STILL the site had not been cleaned up and properly cropped. We are just poking at it and waiting for optimal conditions. Still, the day for coins was Bill...although I started off with the odd none colonial find for this site, 1867 5 Cent Nickel.
We spent the first part of the day in a deep ravine where I did recover a nice early andiron that will need to go into electrolysis (Bill took a good pic and I am sure he will include it in his post). We then moved back into the fields where I investigated the foundation that I located last week...after some probing and more test holes, we decided that it was indeed a foundation and quite extensive in size. Still I decided to poke around for coins...I looked and looked and looked. Digging a button here and broken shoe buckle there. All while Bill was working the backside of the hill. He began digging a button here and there when he called me over. I decided to stay put and continued to eak out a relic here and there until he finally struck with the first coin.
I then decided to make the trip over as my spot was playing out. We worked hard for the rest of the day and I tallied 26 buttons including one good one (perhaps). I recovered a very large pewter button (odd to still be intact) and spent most of the evening looking through the books and websites. Finally I zeroed in on what it most likely will be, in Humes Book (Colonial Artifacts) he shows a Charles II pewter that matches fairly close. Looking on the UKFD, I did find a few others. The initial thought that I had was that the button had a tree motif or crude eagle on the face. Then I noticed a "C" raised along the rim in the same place that both the Charles Buttons I saw had it. Any other ideas are welcome.
The one absolute good find of the hunt was the late 17th century to mid 18th century spur complete (other than slightly bent) with the figure 8 attachment buckles and chain attachments. Two other nice finds are the apothecary weight and lead seal. I was pleased to end the day with this find and while I did not dig a good colonial coin, I did manage 26 buttons (some dandy buttons and other early ones), two nice little thimbles, musket balls, odds and ends the spur and a big hunk of iron (colonial andiron).
HH
Dan
My good pal Bill D and I got back out yesterday to our latest colonial site. STILL the site had not been cleaned up and properly cropped. We are just poking at it and waiting for optimal conditions. Still, the day for coins was Bill...although I started off with the odd none colonial find for this site, 1867 5 Cent Nickel.
We spent the first part of the day in a deep ravine where I did recover a nice early andiron that will need to go into electrolysis (Bill took a good pic and I am sure he will include it in his post). We then moved back into the fields where I investigated the foundation that I located last week...after some probing and more test holes, we decided that it was indeed a foundation and quite extensive in size. Still I decided to poke around for coins...I looked and looked and looked. Digging a button here and broken shoe buckle there. All while Bill was working the backside of the hill. He began digging a button here and there when he called me over. I decided to stay put and continued to eak out a relic here and there until he finally struck with the first coin.
I then decided to make the trip over as my spot was playing out. We worked hard for the rest of the day and I tallied 26 buttons including one good one (perhaps). I recovered a very large pewter button (odd to still be intact) and spent most of the evening looking through the books and websites. Finally I zeroed in on what it most likely will be, in Humes Book (Colonial Artifacts) he shows a Charles II pewter that matches fairly close. Looking on the UKFD, I did find a few others. The initial thought that I had was that the button had a tree motif or crude eagle on the face. Then I noticed a "C" raised along the rim in the same place that both the Charles Buttons I saw had it. Any other ideas are welcome.
The one absolute good find of the hunt was the late 17th century to mid 18th century spur complete (other than slightly bent) with the figure 8 attachment buckles and chain attachments. Two other nice finds are the apothecary weight and lead seal. I was pleased to end the day with this find and while I did not dig a good colonial coin, I did manage 26 buttons (some dandy buttons and other early ones), two nice little thimbles, musket balls, odds and ends the spur and a big hunk of iron (colonial andiron).
HH
Dan
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