coinman123
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Hello guys! I just got back from a short 30 minute trip to check out another cellar hole I found during research. I wasn't planning to bring my metal detector at first, but decided to bring it just in case the place seemed good. This one was next to an abandoned road, which I parked at. There were already 3 other cars parked there to go hiking, a little surprising for Tuesday Evening. I walked less than .1 miles, and right on the side of the trail was the cellar hole. I was at first disappointed, figuring that it has heavily been metal detecting. I started behind the cellar hole for five minutes or so, then moved out in front of it. I noticed a raised area of dirt right where the doorstep would be, and found a button at only a couple inches deep. I then moved to the side of the cellar hole and I noticed an old hole with a can on the side of it, I already figured that I wasn't the first one with a metal detector to come here though. Shortly after I got a very strong hit, and found another button. I then moved to the road in front of the cellar hole for a few minutes, I pulled out two pieces of the handle of a pewter rat tail spoon from the first half of the 1700's, at less than half an inch deep. Shortly after I found half of a cuff link, with the link attached. I then went to what would have been the front yard and found another button, and a brass thimble. It was getting cold and dark, so I decided to leave. When I got to the car I realized I was only there for around half and hour. I will definitely been returning there soon, but it found be for a while probably considering that the weather report says that we are supposed to get a lot of snow soon!
I feel like this year has started off pretty good. I have found at least one button on every single hunt I have been on, including those brief hunts in the woods behind my backyard. Last year I went to 20 cellar holes before July and all of them were heavily metal detected since the 1970's, and I only found 1 button and not a single coin or other relic until August.
The spoon handle is pretty neat, these were hand poured into a spoon mold, and are pretty crude. I read that this style of pewter rat tail spoon handle was most popular during the reign of George I. I was lucky to already have two undug examples to compared it with, that I both found for under $10 at an antique shop.
I feel like this year has started off pretty good. I have found at least one button on every single hunt I have been on, including those brief hunts in the woods behind my backyard. Last year I went to 20 cellar holes before July and all of them were heavily metal detected since the 1970's, and I only found 1 button and not a single coin or other relic until August.
The spoon handle is pretty neat, these were hand poured into a spoon mold, and are pretty crude. I read that this style of pewter rat tail spoon handle was most popular during the reign of George I. I was lucky to already have two undug examples to compared it with, that I both found for under $10 at an antique shop.
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