Advice & Objects from yesterday's old rubbish pit

[2k2d1c]

So, I live on what used to be an old Farm-which was first settled in the mid 1600's. My house and all of the ones within .25 miles of my location were built around 1950, yet there are 2- colonial and 2-1800's homes within a mile. I found these objects in a rubbish pit (I assume) at the end of my property which runs down to a marsh. I'd like to date the pile. The rubbish is definitely pre-1950's and it seems awfully far from the closest old home, so I'm curious. I'm wondering if there might have been a nearby home that was razed for our development and if so, I want to hunt near it!

This is the info that I have so far:

(none of the objects on the towel are magnetic)
Towel Objects
Small lantern at top of group photo appears to be very thin copper, though my MD registered this as a bottle cap. It has a heart designed handle.
Right side 14" objects register as nickel.
3 fragments on the lower left register as nickel/foil, but look like very thin copper. It has a flower designed handle.
The wick device is brass.
The ornate 2 metal object appears to be a hanging kerosene lantern support. The round base appears to be copper. The wings are an uncorroded silver metal. The whole object registers as zinc, silver, and as a bottle cap!

The pottery was near the lamp like objects.

The iron scythes are 30-40" and were scattered throughout the heap!

I'm using a borrowed detector-Platinum Bounty Hunter.

Lastly, have you ever found anything worthy in an old rubbish pile?

NBeth

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Billieg]

As old as the property is you should hunt all of it. Never know where things are buried or were lost.

 

[Noah_D]

I can't give you a date but that stuff definitely looks pretty old! The best thing I have found so far while "dumping" is a 1918 wheatie. I was sifting the dirt at a trash pit from the 1960s (only one I have been to so far, the grass and weeds are too tall right now to do much exploring in Ohio, we know where a few older dumps are but haven't been able to find them cause of all the brush). Good luck dumping!

 

[Tuberale]

Great finds and especially for your first post. Welcome to TreasureNet!

 

[Goldiver]

Welcome to Treasurenet, glad to have you here sharing your finds! Often the oil lamps will have a patent date on the thumbwheel used to adjust the wick. Yours is a bit blurry in the photo, but appears to read 1868. It is probable that your relics are from 1870s-1880s time frame. Maybe your dump site was used for a number of years, if so you could find even older things in the lower layers.

Steve

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice relics, congrats!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I agree with 'Goldiver Steve', likely an old farm dump.
The hanging oil lamp frame dates to the turn of the 19thc, some of the brass parts of the oil lamp show signs of having been in a fire.
The light brown food storage jar pictured with the white porcelain fragments, dates from 1850 - 80.

Dave

 

[Joe-Dirt]

I agree with the masses, I’d say turn of the last century. My best find from a trash dump was a spread out coin spill; SLQ, war nickel and some wheaties. Keep digging brother

 

[Rookster]

Way ya got. Nice finds

 

[2k2d1c]

Hey Noah, What is coin roll hunting? I've seen it a few times now.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Hey Noah, What is coin roll hunting? I've seen it a few times now.

"Coin roll hunting is the hobby of searching and sorting coinage pulled from circulation for collectible coins. This is achieved through obtaining rolled coin, boxed coin, or bagged coin from banks and credit unions. A variant of this practice involves banknotes and is carried out in essentially the same fashion, normally to search for unusual serial numbers, star notes and misprints. In the United States, coin roll hunters obtain rolls of cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves, and sometimes dollar coins.

Prime targets of American coin roll hunters are silver dimes, quarters, and halves prior to 1965, and 40% silver half dollars from 1965-1970. Nickels are searched for 35% silver "war nickels" (1942–1945) older discontinued designs such as the Buffalo and "V" Nickel are also collected. Cents are also searched for older designs such as wheat cents (1909–1958), steel cents (1943) and Indian head cents (1859–1909) and some searchers save copper Lincoln cents 1959–1982 for the growing value as copper bullion. Toned coins are also of interest to collectors and are occasionally found in coin rolls. An occasional darkly discolored or corroded dime can also be found in cent rolls, giving the collector an instant 10-fold bonus. Often coin roll hunters also collect special proof coins, exonumia, and coins from other nations. Others attempt to find and complete a set of coins, like the America the Beautiful Quarters, 50 State Quarters or Presidential Dollars, and some collect special issues such as the bicentennial quarters and halves (1976), bicentennial Lewis and Clark nickels (2004-2005), and bicentennial Lincoln cents (2009). Specific dates of specific denominations that are rarer than others or minted in lower-than-usual quantities may also be taken from circulation, such as 1970, 1987, or 2002 to present halves, 2009 nickels and dimes, or 2002-2008 Sacajawea dollars. Some people search the rolls for error coins that have defects from the minting process and can be worth more than face value to collectors."

 

[2k2d1c]

Thanks Dem the helpful description, Antiquarian!!

 

[Noah_D]

Sorry I didn't respond for a while 2k2d1c. Antiquarian was spot on though! If you've never done any coin roll hunting it's a lot of fun. The key is not getting discouraged when you don't find things... I don't do it often... this year I searched a bunch of quarters and found nothing, then I decided to try halves and got lucky!