Steve in PA
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- Jul 5, 2010
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A couple hours in a Colonial Cornfield - Luckenbooth brooch and silver cufflink!
This past Saturday was a warm sunny day, perfect digging weather. When you get these kinds of days in January you have to take advantage of them. I met up with a couple local diggers and we tried to locate an early site based off a 1792 map, but were not successful. Then we investigated a large depression that looked promising on aerial views, but turned out to be a natural feature rather than man made. So in order to save the day, John and Jim invited me to hunt a relatively new site they had found, which had given up a number of toasted coppers, dandy and tombac buttons, and other late 18[SUP]th[/SUP] century relics. Even though they had hit the site fairly hard recently, and the field was a soggy mess with corn stubble, we all managed to find some relics.
Here is a group shot of our finds. My finds are in the middle.
My finds including the base of a crude black glass bottle and some other glass and pottery
Another shot of my finds - keg spigot cap at the top, copper, dandy button, and flat button in second row, silver cufflink, part of a silver brooch and small tombac on the bottom row.
The broken silver brooch may be a Luckenbooth brooch with engraved initials "WM"
Silver cufflink with what appears to be a bird and some flowers
Nice dandy button with design
This past Saturday was a warm sunny day, perfect digging weather. When you get these kinds of days in January you have to take advantage of them. I met up with a couple local diggers and we tried to locate an early site based off a 1792 map, but were not successful. Then we investigated a large depression that looked promising on aerial views, but turned out to be a natural feature rather than man made. So in order to save the day, John and Jim invited me to hunt a relatively new site they had found, which had given up a number of toasted coppers, dandy and tombac buttons, and other late 18[SUP]th[/SUP] century relics. Even though they had hit the site fairly hard recently, and the field was a soggy mess with corn stubble, we all managed to find some relics.
Here is a group shot of our finds. My finds are in the middle.
My finds including the base of a crude black glass bottle and some other glass and pottery
Another shot of my finds - keg spigot cap at the top, copper, dandy button, and flat button in second row, silver cufflink, part of a silver brooch and small tombac on the bottom row.
The broken silver brooch may be a Luckenbooth brooch with engraved initials "WM"
Silver cufflink with what appears to be a bird and some flowers
Nice dandy button with design
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