Large Cent Follow Up- Few but Good Finds At The Disappearing Permission

EdHartzel

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Jun 12, 2018
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Bucks County PA
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Minelab Equinox 600, Garrett GTI 2500, JW Fisher Pulse 8X
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Metal Detecting
2DCCFBA9-A7F8-4F61-822D-7CC2BA3941F3.png38460789-FEE2-409E-8F67-1BE502D3C01B.jpegObtained permission this past Saturday for a colonial field that is scheduled for development “soon”. Scouted with detector that day and recovered an 1831 LC. Boy was I excited to hit that field! Had off today and showed up just after 9am to find highlifts, tree service guys chopping down 100+ year old oaks, surveyors driving stakes, and bulldozers being unloaded. I walked over to a hardhat and introduced myself- told him who said I could be there- powered up- balanced out and away I went! The grass was almost knee high but now I was determined! I trudged through the surprisingly quiet grounds for the better part of the day, dodging falling trees and annoying surveyors by standing in the way of their equipment! I wound up recovering some decent finds but I’ll tell you- I was, and am quite upset thinking of how much is about to be lost tomorrow morning to bulldozers and “progress”. First photo shows the keeps- not much trash collected at all. Top is the 1831 LC from my scouting- todays finds beneath. From the left- the smallest tombac button I’ve ever seen, a nice heavy silver pendant that was deep! The next object I am very happy with- it is a lead seal marked “ERIE RR” (Erie Rail Road). Next row from left shows an odd trapezoidal weight of some sort- also sat at about 10”. Next a large buckle and a pair of wheaties. Old silver still eludes me! E60986B3-99FC-478D-9A57-2D0D86C0070D.jpegD4000454-FC8E-4C72-BAA5-D0265AD34DCB.jpeg1AC2D893-AB6C-4B1D-AFBF-3A0DD359DC13.jpegCC5E83E9-C5B7-42CF-B753-6CEECD154825.jpeg
 

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Nice finds Ive seen so much land and history dozed away also. I think you will be able to pull alot of good stuff out of there once they strt turning dirt I would try to save all you can but you should do well I hope Good luck my friend Tommy
 

Keep going back. Hunt those spoil piles. The construction guys will get you down to the old stuff. Gary
 

Sounds very promising for more to come. You've done well so far, good luck there on your return trips. Congrats on some excellent finds.
 

Nice finds, hopefully you can get a few more hunts there before it gets covered up.
 

Congrats on the finds and good timing. 2 winters ago I was looking around on google earth and came upon a piece of land with some great history that was to be developed. It appeared that the deal had gone through quite a few years before. With some luck maybe it was still there. I went and checked it out... It looked like they were far from developing it just a couple orange markers. I hit the place a few times and found very little. Then just like that it was pretty much gone. Complete annihilation. It was land with history going back to the 1600's and a Native American history as well that was given to the town for perpetuity. They sold it to make a few bucks. Now it's some ugly mcmansions. Breaks a little piece of my heart to see it go.
 

Congrats on the finds! :icon_thumleft: Find what you can, when you can. Progress rolls over everything.
 

To me, your mystery piece looks like an ear broken off a cooking pot.....where the bail handle would have attached.
 

I will say that style buckle shows up on early 19th century sites.
 

Nice job on the recoveries! Keep hitting that place until the last nail is struck! Good Luck...:occasion14:
 

there is places you might go back to and there is places you MUST go back to - you found such a places....hit it and hit it hard!!!!!!
 

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