Don in SJ
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- May 20, 2005
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On Monday I came upon an unexpected new site on the crest of a hill, but after hunting nearly two hours at the immediate area surrounding the depression I came to the conclusion, that since I was not finding, thimbles, buttons, coins, any relics, that the place was hit hard years ago.
So, before leaving the site for the day I made one more pass near the depression where the structure stood and got a button at over 8 inches down, with a hunk of iron with it. I wanted to make a quick perimeter walk to see how big of an area surrounding the homestead had iron hits and just before quitting for the day, in the now wooded section that used to be field in the early 1800s I did manage a beautiful geometric designed button.
Yesterday I returned to the site and concentrated the surrounding area and was rewarded with two more buttons a broken piece of what was a beautiful Shoe Buckle, a decorative little plate of some sort, and what appears to be a binocular type lens and holder for it and finally after almost giving up I did get a 1812 Large Cent. All of the finds were in the 8+ inch range.
I do plan on more trips to the site, even though probably not much left to find, but it is a somewhat big homestead for iron hits....
Don
So, before leaving the site for the day I made one more pass near the depression where the structure stood and got a button at over 8 inches down, with a hunk of iron with it. I wanted to make a quick perimeter walk to see how big of an area surrounding the homestead had iron hits and just before quitting for the day, in the now wooded section that used to be field in the early 1800s I did manage a beautiful geometric designed button.
Yesterday I returned to the site and concentrated the surrounding area and was rewarded with two more buttons a broken piece of what was a beautiful Shoe Buckle, a decorative little plate of some sort, and what appears to be a binocular type lens and holder for it and finally after almost giving up I did get a 1812 Large Cent. All of the finds were in the 8+ inch range.
I do plan on more trips to the site, even though probably not much left to find, but it is a somewhat big homestead for iron hits....
Don
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