French Colonial-1752 silver, cut silver, knee&shoe buckles & silver Auspice Maria

[Davers]

It’s been a while. Winter had me busy doing other activities but I finally got out and went on a road trip. I happened to have some great research and dropped in on a site that I don’t believe was ever touched before. There was nothing. No cleared ground, foundation, or anything...just woods. With no stone nor brick, I believe the house was of Earthfast construction, common to that area back in the 1600’s and 1700’s. I gridded and found the site iron within a 1/2 hr. I started with a few flat buttons...all nice and old. Then a solid silver cufflink half.
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Then I got a great signal and spoiler alert, thought it was a copper. Here the video...

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And the rest...
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Also found a pit filled with clam shells.
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And the smallest Georgian buckle I’ve ever dug.

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Turns out the coin was a 1752 French 1/2 ecu. A welcome change to the usual Spanish variety commonly found. Unfortunately this home burned sometime in the early 1800’s so the link and Ecu were are fire damaged. Here are the cleaned up pics...

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Auspice Maria cufflink, essentially a monagram of the Virgin Mary. It’s considered catholic religious art and often found on many colonial French artifacts. (Thanks for the insight and info A!)
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And a knee buckle with iron chape attached.Attachment 1694390
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And some great dandies, cone, and a nipple button...Attachment 1694392

Also found a draped large cent (not pictured). What a great time. I’ll get back there one day but this was a very productive 3.5 hour hunt. Enjoy!

Steve

WTG Scrap! WTG!

[RVRoamer66]

Some nice finds Scrappy. You always post some very cool finds. Liked the vid too. Congrats!!

[Inspector]

That's a awesome site you found, beautiful silver and buckles, congratulations on all the historical saves

[Scrappy]

Wow awesome finds! Love the little buckle! Congrats on the French silver!

Now there’s no guarantee of its use, but small buckles of this era were sometimes used to fasten the calf sections of boots. Thanks for looking

[Scrappy]

Amazing job researching and exceptional finds! I would feel proud to discover such a site. Huge congrats man!

Much appreciated my man. Thanks for the insight BTW, it kind of brought everything together and painted a larger picture. And it was great discovering such a site. Most don’t get too many untouched ones...

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the excellent hunt!

[Eastcoasthunter21]

Steve were there snakes in the plane ?
Who puts snakes on a plane ?

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Sweet old silver treasure! Congrats

[Al.relics]

Two works. JUST FANTASTIC!!!

[CRUSADER]

[Scrappy]

Nice research and finds. Early French silver in the US is banner worthy imo and colonial silver cufflinks not too shabby either

I agree! Colonial French is very difficult to find and this is my first 18th century French silver. I’d found a copper sol up in Maine with Ahab but you could probably search Tnet and not find too many Ecus. Thanks for looking

[Scrappy]

Well well well....welcome back old friend. Pretty crappy hunt to get back on the board with don’t ya think lol? Great job buddy. Warms my heart to see my bud back on the old dirt. I just plugged in the Deus to make sure she’s ready to go. You inspire me bud....like the wind beneath my wings

Hello old friend, so glad to hear from you again....
What can I say? I got a bit lucky but I think that the detecting gods just felt bad for me. So I hope they feel really bad for your overworked arse today, and you kill it on your hunt.

[Scrappy]

a pic of the Draped bust large cent all cleaned up.

[Scrappy]

nice site with some awesome finds

Thanks Dave, it was quite a starter for the season.

[Scrappy]

Some nice finds Scrappy. You always post some very cool finds. Liked the vid too. Congrats!!

Haha, Happy you enjoyed the video. I was completely convinced it was a copper.