ironhorse
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I knew that yesterday was my last chance at detecting for a while.
No time to travel to a known site, no time for research, and no pressure to even find anything.
A gorgeous day for a walk in my back yard. I'm the fourth generation of my family to live in the community I live in; my grand father was born just a couple of minutes walk down the road in 1916. The old family farm is all grown up and wooded now, only a path through the trees to the cellar hole remains now.
I tried detecting there yesterday for the first time ever. I had a feeling I might something my ancestors may have owned and dropped many years ago.
On the path I found a medallion given out school children in 1927 commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Canada's confederation. Now my grand father left school in grade three to help farm his parents land ( my great grand father had very poor health)
I can only imagine that his last days at school he recieved this medallion before his farming career began and it was lost in the fields he worked as a young man of nine years old!
How ever it got there I like the romantic story of a child farmer loosing his last connection to education .
My best find this year? Could be!
No time to travel to a known site, no time for research, and no pressure to even find anything.
A gorgeous day for a walk in my back yard. I'm the fourth generation of my family to live in the community I live in; my grand father was born just a couple of minutes walk down the road in 1916. The old family farm is all grown up and wooded now, only a path through the trees to the cellar hole remains now.
I tried detecting there yesterday for the first time ever. I had a feeling I might something my ancestors may have owned and dropped many years ago.
On the path I found a medallion given out school children in 1927 commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Canada's confederation. Now my grand father left school in grade three to help farm his parents land ( my great grand father had very poor health)
I can only imagine that his last days at school he recieved this medallion before his farming career began and it was lost in the fields he worked as a young man of nine years old!
How ever it got there I like the romantic story of a child farmer loosing his last connection to education .
My best find this year? Could be!
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