First Great Homestead Of The Fall Found On Saturday. Made A Ton Of Finds

[JerV3]

First Great Homestead Of The Fall Found On Saturday. Made A Ton Of Finds

Hey everyone,

Hope I don't wear my welcome back to quickly. Saturday, was the first day of fall homestead hunting for me. It still needs to die out some more before I can really get into it.

However, after 2 hrs nearly searching for one of the homes I had on the map. We ran into another witch was great. I am destined to find them all. This one was very nice. Not as old as I would have liked it to have been. But none the less an untouched site. It will need to die out some more before I can really get to all of the site.

It has a great old foundation. And a really large spring house at the bottom of the bluff. I am siting on the wall of the spring house. This site was used heavily. There is broken glass and shards everywhere. Atleast 3 or 4 different bottle pits at this place. Not alot of old coins to speak of though.

This area has a great creek near it. And deer are really plentiful. No need for money at those times. I did find a 1865 indian and a 1903. But the rest was just wheats and a nice franklin half. I was dissapointed though with the half. It's about 100 yrs off from what I would expect for a site like this.

But I will take it. Halfs don't come often. It was a surface find. Came away with some great old strerling what's it's though. Found the most beautiful door knob I ever seen in my life. It is split in half though. Breaks my heart let me tell ya lol. I love relics like these. Found a great heinz watch fob.

It says the wearer will have 57 varieties of good luck and happiness. Pretty cool huh. I might put it in my pocket lol. Got a really nice 1897 barber dime and a 1917 merc. Got a weird silver ring to. The rest is all self explanitory for the most part. Buttons and buckles and such. Hope you all like the pics.

HH Jer

 

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[JerV3]

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Here are a few more guys

HH Jer

 

[postalgriff]

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wow, nice hunting there, that is a bunch of cool relics! congrats on that silver Ben.

 

[wagbert]

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Hi! Jer,
You did good! That's quite a haul. SILVER is always a neat find, but I like the brass objects too. The brass valve is a fancy piece. I wonder if something like that was made to use inside the house. Pretty neat stone work too. Are you up in the Northeast where a lot of the older stuff is found? Your finds represent generations of habitation at that location. I think of the people who have come and gone when I see such a nice group of relics. Thanks for sharing and Good Luck MD'ing!
wagbert

 

[PAUL2006]

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cool find

 

[K*E*L*L*Y]

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nice! you did find a ton of stuff!
looks like you guys had a fun time!

 

[Big A]

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Great bunch of finds. I would be back at that one again.

Alan

 

[Mr Tuff]

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great haul love them cellar holes!! MR TUFF

 

[briankb70]

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great bunch of nice relics

 

[Slabman]

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Hey Jer,
Nice bunch of finds! Do you have any idea what those round, button looking things, under the blue
marble in the right hand side of the picture, are? I've found several of those over the years, and
have never figured out what they were. They all seem to have had another piece attached to them,
but all a person finds is the round part. Once again, that's a nice haul of stuff!!

Slab

 

[Rusted_Iron]

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Great finds, Jer. Looks like you worked that area pretty hard. Definitely can't complain about the silver half dollar. How deep was the '97 Barber and the Merc?

 

[Rickiowa2009]

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Alot of cool finds, congratulations

Hey everyone,

Hope I don't wear my welcome back to quickly. Saturday, was the first day of fall homestead hunting for me. It still needs to die out some more before I can really get into it.

However, after 2 hrs nearly searching for one of the homes I had on the map. We ran into another witch was great. I am destined to find them all. This one was very nice. Not as old as I would have liked it to have been. But none the less an untouched site. It will need to die out some more before I can really get to all of the site.

It has a great old foundation. And a really large spring house at the bottom of the bluff. I am siting on the wall of the spring house. This site was used heavily. There is broken glass and shards everywhere. Atleast 3 or 4 different bottle pits at this place. Not alot of old coins to speak of though.

This area has a great creek near it. And deer are really plentiful. No need for money at those times. I did find a 1865 indian and a 1903. But the rest was just wheats and a nice franklin half. I was dissapointed though with the half. It's about 100 yrs off from what I would expect for a site like this.

But I will take it. Halfs don't come often. It was a surface find. Came away with some great old strerling what's it's though. Found the most beautiful door knob I ever seen in my life. It is split in half though. Breaks my heart let me tell ya lol. I love relics like these. Found a great heinz watch fob.

It says the wearer will have 57 varieties of good luck and happiness. Pretty cool huh. I might put it in my pocket lol. Got a really nice 1897 barber dime and a 1917 merc. Got a weird silver ring to. The rest is all self explanitory for the most part. Buttons and buckles and such. Hope you all like the pics.

HH Jer

 

[ashleysflyr]

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Awesome finds and great pics jer!

~Tom

 

[kuger]

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Great Haul!!!

 

[tseekerMike]

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Pretty fabulous haul! Way to go!

 

[HISPAN]

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Awesome colection.....CONGRATS!!

 

[daleshark]

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WOW !!! Speak about cleaning up on finds. Thats awesome.
Thanks for the pics.

daleshark.

 

[JerV3]

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Thanks alot everyone.

Yes, I pounded this place out hard. My brother took a large haul to. But the site has alot more to find. I'll let it rest for awhile. Then I will go back here soon when it dies out. Gonna hit the drawing board and look for a few others. I can always go back to this site. Once I find them they can be hunted for a long time.

Yes, I took out about a 100 yrs span of history at this place. They all seem to be like this. Well most of them. They will have finds from the early 1800's all the way through till the 1950's. Then I guess people stopped living in cabins out in the woods.

The button things I find often. I wanna say they went to a jacket. But they have those sharp 2 little notches on them. They were used to hold up something. Not sure what though. There were more I just couldn't dig anymore of them.

Be back at it again this weekend I am sure. Got a few more in this woods to try and come up with. Hopefully one of them will give up some large coppers. That's what I am really looking for. These finds are to new for me.

HH Jer

 

[wingmaster]

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Great finds congrats.

 

[JerV3]

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Thanks guys,

Yes, I do live in the NE. Pittsburgh P.a to be exact. I really love it here with all the history. The coins I found weren't that deep. Except the merc seemed to be about 7 to 8 inches deep. Most were in the 4 to 6 inch range. I dug the heinz fob atleast 10 inches down. It was at the base of the shovel when I pryed it up.

Silver can be any where from the surface down to 10 inches or more. Most I find is about 6 inches deep. Large copper coins are atleast 8 to 10. Can't wait till all this stuff dies down. But hunting season is now going on so that sucks to.

Thank you Rob. I feal really humble man to have gotten this good at this hobby. I can't beleive how much stuff I am even finding. Really what it is anymore. Is my map skills and research has really gotten better for me. We have all these great tools now like gps google earth. I've been studying for hrs almost everyday before work lining up maps to find old sites.

And I am actually cashing in now and having some really great success. I'm finding out that not alot of these sites are being found by anyone else out there. Most I have touched this year have never seen a detector before. I told my wife the other day I won't stop till I find atleast one gold coin. She said you won't stop then. I said your right.

But I have one goal and it's to find a gold coin somewhere out there. Then I will feal I have basically accomplished everything I have wanted to. Thanks again for viewing my post all of these yrs Rob.

Take care,

Jeremy