I received a call earlier this week from a good friend from Tnet ‘pepperj’, inviting me join him in detecting the site of a mid-19thc railroad station and an old homestead. He had located these by researching old local maps of the area and was nice enough to invite me along! We started at the old home site, which has been long gone. Pepperj had detected this site last year and had found an 1858 US Flying Eagle Penny, but after spending and hour here, we had little to show for our efforts, so we moved onto the site of the railroad station. As we made our way through the cornfield, it only took us about 15mins to locate where the station must have been, because the ground was heavily littered with broken glass, pottery shards, bits of tins and the occasional broken brick.
Pepperj was first on the board when he found a beautiful brass men’s wedding band, he later found a beautiful 1917 LC right on top of the soil! My finds came a little slower, but my best find had to be a brass Arts & Crafts Period ‘whatsit’! I also found the ‘face’ portion of a doorknob and a couple of other early brass ‘whatsits’. Of course, my favourite find of the hunt was the horseshoe!
Thanks for looking,
Dave
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