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I have exhaustively researched and hunted my 400 acre township park in W PA. Many good finds at 5 old homesite locations. All were relatively easy to find with modern map and lidar techniques over the last 6 years.
This week was about scouting and hunting 4 spots that are not on any maps but I have seen random pottery shards along the hiking paths over the last few months and some odd tulips placements in the woods. 2 of the spots were total busts, but 1 provided some relatively modern relics and the other is turning out to be a productive colonial era spot.
Good stuff first...
Handful of buttons with 6 of them being tombac. One is has a silver wash and a design.
A couple of these saddle adornments, not sure of the era for these but they were mixed in the area with the tombacs.
Some random old stuff, fishing weight is cool.
Luggage tag, this guy lived down the old dirt road a mile or so 100 +/- years ago.
And some old British Colonial coins. We think the nickel sized coin might be my first farthing, maybe Hibernia. The 1747 KG2 I believe is counter stamped with a “C”? Can anyone shed light on this? The other copper is thicker, almost thought it was an early LC, but rang up a 21 on the Nox so most likely another wiped KG.
Some of the newer stuff from the other hunch site.
The token was ID’d by DC Matt as a Pennsylvania Railways Token, potentially from their safety fair at the turn of the century.
Good luck out there!
This week was about scouting and hunting 4 spots that are not on any maps but I have seen random pottery shards along the hiking paths over the last few months and some odd tulips placements in the woods. 2 of the spots were total busts, but 1 provided some relatively modern relics and the other is turning out to be a productive colonial era spot.
Good stuff first...
Handful of buttons with 6 of them being tombac. One is has a silver wash and a design.
A couple of these saddle adornments, not sure of the era for these but they were mixed in the area with the tombacs.
Some random old stuff, fishing weight is cool.
Luggage tag, this guy lived down the old dirt road a mile or so 100 +/- years ago.
And some old British Colonial coins. We think the nickel sized coin might be my first farthing, maybe Hibernia. The 1747 KG2 I believe is counter stamped with a “C”? Can anyone shed light on this? The other copper is thicker, almost thought it was an early LC, but rang up a 21 on the Nox so most likely another wiped KG.
Some of the newer stuff from the other hunch site.
The token was ID’d by DC Matt as a Pennsylvania Railways Token, potentially from their safety fair at the turn of the century.
Good luck out there!
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