After you find some of the stuff I have youy absolutely stop wondering, why it was out there. Shoe horns, old irons you heated on the wood stove, axe heads, every kind of cooking utensil imaginable. I laugh at some of the things I uncover out loud.
People got rid of things. Out of sight out of mind.
Who told you that was a paper weight? ?
It is a prehistoric fish finder.
Sort of like what the Gypsy would use to look into the future.
Congrats on the silver.