Ed-NH
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- Feb 4, 2006
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Hi all,
I had a great 2.5 hour hunt. After a day of traveling basketball for my daughter we got home around 4:30. By 5:00 I was back at the tree farm as it is only 5 minutes from my house. I stopped in and showed the owner and his wife my previous days finds. (my last post). They were quite happy to see the finds and offered up more information about what he thought the area I was hunting in may have been back in the 1700's. By the time I got done speaking with them the drizzle started to fall. I was determined to get a bit of sanity time and decided to hunt anyway.
The hunt was not very good to start, all iron and some junk. After about a 1/2 hour I hit a modern coin spill to the tune of 3 quarters, a nickle, and 4 pennys about 5" deep and all from the 1970's. I figure they were dropped about 20 years ago. Next came my best find of several years. I got a nice silver/coin hit. I figured a nice copper disk was going to come out. Instead, at about 6 inches deep came the most beautiful silver shoe buckle that I have ever seen. I saw the chape and knew right away that it was 1600-1700 vintage. I did not remove any of the caked on mud in fear that it may fall apart in my pouch. It went home as is.
My next find was a nice lead ball, then a copper at 8" deep (totally flat disk), then another lead ball and in the same hole as the lead ball came a really pretty little flower button and then a 13 bar button. Those must be common around here as this is the 5th one I have found in a two square mile area. Next came another copper. This one just about a flat disk but enough detail to just make out the reverse. It's a King George style but abosolutely no way to tell the year or any detail on the obverse.
This is the best hunt I have has since last year at the Civil War site where I found a ton of buckles. (soon to hit that area again in hopes of a few leftovers washed in from the floods last week)
The silver buckle cleaned up nice in soap and water. The chape moves but the spike does not. I don't want to force it and break it so it will remain as is. According to searches on buckles that I have found this style chape was made between 1660 and 1725 and by 1750 was not in existence. This makes sense according to the area I found it in. The original garrison was built in 1650 (long gone now). Another house on this property was built in 1760 and moved 1/4 mile away in the 1800's. The owners house was built in 1780 something. This is by far the best and oldest buckle I have found to date.
I also found a few whats'its. An iron piece, a piece with scrolling and a tiny button shank. I'm really pleased with the small items that my detector will actually lock onto. Thanks for looking.
group shot before cleaning
silver buckle before cleaning
group shot after cleaning
nice old pewter flat button
tiny button shank
small flower button
13 bar button
iron whats'it
scrolled whats'it
silver shoe buckle
I had a great 2.5 hour hunt. After a day of traveling basketball for my daughter we got home around 4:30. By 5:00 I was back at the tree farm as it is only 5 minutes from my house. I stopped in and showed the owner and his wife my previous days finds. (my last post). They were quite happy to see the finds and offered up more information about what he thought the area I was hunting in may have been back in the 1700's. By the time I got done speaking with them the drizzle started to fall. I was determined to get a bit of sanity time and decided to hunt anyway.
The hunt was not very good to start, all iron and some junk. After about a 1/2 hour I hit a modern coin spill to the tune of 3 quarters, a nickle, and 4 pennys about 5" deep and all from the 1970's. I figure they were dropped about 20 years ago. Next came my best find of several years. I got a nice silver/coin hit. I figured a nice copper disk was going to come out. Instead, at about 6 inches deep came the most beautiful silver shoe buckle that I have ever seen. I saw the chape and knew right away that it was 1600-1700 vintage. I did not remove any of the caked on mud in fear that it may fall apart in my pouch. It went home as is.
My next find was a nice lead ball, then a copper at 8" deep (totally flat disk), then another lead ball and in the same hole as the lead ball came a really pretty little flower button and then a 13 bar button. Those must be common around here as this is the 5th one I have found in a two square mile area. Next came another copper. This one just about a flat disk but enough detail to just make out the reverse. It's a King George style but abosolutely no way to tell the year or any detail on the obverse.
This is the best hunt I have has since last year at the Civil War site where I found a ton of buckles. (soon to hit that area again in hopes of a few leftovers washed in from the floods last week)
The silver buckle cleaned up nice in soap and water. The chape moves but the spike does not. I don't want to force it and break it so it will remain as is. According to searches on buckles that I have found this style chape was made between 1660 and 1725 and by 1750 was not in existence. This makes sense according to the area I found it in. The original garrison was built in 1650 (long gone now). Another house on this property was built in 1760 and moved 1/4 mile away in the 1800's. The owners house was built in 1780 something. This is by far the best and oldest buckle I have found to date.
I also found a few whats'its. An iron piece, a piece with scrolling and a tiny button shank. I'm really pleased with the small items that my detector will actually lock onto. Thanks for looking.
group shot before cleaning
silver buckle before cleaning
group shot after cleaning
nice old pewter flat button
tiny button shank
small flower button
13 bar button
iron whats'it
scrolled whats'it
silver shoe buckle
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