My first Colonial hand forged hammer! (with pics of last weeks Confederate digs)

[FoundInNC]

My first Colonial hand forged hammer! (with pics of last week's Confederate digs)

This afternoon Rowdy the dachshund and I went to a 1750s site in Burlington NC just to find that it was too grown up to detect, but since we were already there we hit what we could. I dug more Iron signals than I normally do, and today it paid off. I got my first complete colonial hand forged hammer! I think it is beautiful. Still no coins, gold or silver from the site, but plenty of early relics. The photos show the hammer head after I sanded some rust off and gave it a vegetable oil bath.





I did not make a post last week, but here are the finds from about three days at a North Carolina Confederate camp. NC State Seal Buttons(2), excellent eagle button, percussion caps(2), flat button, confederate enfield, unknown copper clippings, lead cartridge box finial, round balls (3), Confederate clayware and Native American pottery shards(3)

 

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[dig kzoo]

Sweet! congrats that is awesome!

 

[Brian C.]

Nice hammer, it looks in nice condition.

 

[recondigger]

That hammer is an awesome piece of history the kind of piece that I wish could talk. It helped build this country and I'm happy you found it before it was gone forever a lot of guys out there would have thrown it in the woods like junk.

Dig until your arm falls off

 

[yelnif]

Nice finds FiNC, that hammer may have been used by a ship builder or a cooper(barrel maker) or a shoe/ boot maker. Have you ever found any other tools at this site that would give us a clue as to what the original owner did for a living?

HH yelnif

 

[HCW]

I'm not sure, but I think that might be an old farrier's hammer (horseshoeing).

 

[cjon455]

thats a sweet hammer! cleaned up nice

 

[doc-d]

Very nice and what a great part of history.....thank you for sharing this.

 

[JohnnyMac]

That's really nice