Two Sites in Three Hours!

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I had to wait a couple of hours to get out this morning due to heavy rain. When the rain finally let up, I decided to head back to a site that I last detected in 2012. The c1870 ‘H. Dearborn’ farmhouse was recently demolished to make way for new home construction. My first interesting find here was a Fillis design iron horse stirrup.

“Fillis: A design with a heavy tread, and branches that rise to the eye in a rounded triangular shape. Stirrups used on English saddles are usually made of metal. Though called "irons," they are no longer made of iron, as a rule, but instead stainless steel is the metal of choice, due to its strength, though when weight is an issue, such as for a jockey, they may also be made of aluminum. Inexpensive stirrups may be made of nickel, which can easily bend or break and should be avoided. Stirrups may also be made of synthetic materials and various metallic alloys. There are many variations on the standard stirrup design, most claiming to either be safer in the event of a fall or to make it easier for a rider to maintain a proper foot and leg position.”

My only other find of interest here was a hand inscribed copper tag with the word ‘CARROTS’ on it. Maybe a name tag from an early vegetable garden?
I then returned to the woollen mill site where I detected last weekend. I finally found my first coin here today, an 1855 Five Centimes ‘French’ coin.
I also found an oil lamp collar and a piece of ‘mystery brass’.

Thanks very much for looking!
Dave

 

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[treblehunter]

Nice work, I love the french coin and your "carrots" badge
Great pix

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

Nice work, I love the french coin and your "carrots" badge
Great pix

Thanks for your post Brad.
When the French coin first popped up all I saw was an Eagle, so I immediately got excited thinking it was an early American coin or token.
I'm heading back again this morning. I'm also going to look for another site down the road that was affiliated with The Empire Mill on the the next creek over.
This mill was much bigger and had a much longer history of operation.

The Empire Woollen Mill – Columbus, Ontario

West of the Village of Columbus, Ontario on a branch of the Oshawa Creek at the SE corner of Thornton Rd. and Columbus Rd. existed the largest mill in the entire area. Here, in 1835, the impressive, four-storey woollen mills of Mathewson and Ratcliffe were operated by a crew of 50, which was much larger than the other mills that dotted the landscape. Men were brought in from northern England to work the mill. They resided in a boarding home and small cottages. In 1850 the company was sold to the Empire Mills Company. The area grew into a village that had a church, a store, a school, wooden sidewalks and by 1883, an electrical lighting system powered by the mill dam. It may have been the first of its kind in the entire area. When a major railway was built well west near Markham, Ontario the company moved. The old mill struggled under new ownership until 1890 when a flood washed out the dam. It was never rebuilt and the village died. A few old century homes survive; 2 cemeteries from the area survive: the Dryden Baptist Cemetery and St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery.

 

[bartholomewroberts]

As always, Dave, a wonderful post.. I love the detail you put into the posts you make.. They
bring history alive, as it were..The stirrup does it for me of course.. but being a farmer, that
would be expected, I guess.

I am looking forward to seeing what more you can find and post

Best you you my friend

Micheal

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

As always, Dave, a wonderful post.. I love the detail you put into the posts you make.. They
bring history alive, as it were..The stirrup does it for me of course.. but being a farmer, that
would be expected, I guess.

I am looking forward to seeing what more you can find and post

Best you you my friend

Micheal

Thank you Micheal, as always it's great to hear from you!
Sounds like you're getting out swinging in your area these days as well.

Thankfully the next two weeks here look to be above freezing, so I'm hoping to get out a few more times now that I'm off work until Jan. 3
I'll tumble the stirrup this winter, I expect that it will clean up nicely too.

May you and your family have a peaceful Christmas my friend,
Dave

 

[creskol]

I'm with Crusader .. That carrot tag is my favorite as well.. I love things of that nature!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I'm with Crusader .. That carrot tag is my favorite as well.. I love things of that nature!

I too love finding anything personalized.
Of course, I'd much rather it have found a love token made from an early silver coin... in this case 'carrots' trump silver!

Thanks for your post creskol,
Dave

 

[Geobound]

Dave that sucks to hear about the water leak, what a terrible time of the year for that to happen!

That looks like drywall over a slat ceiling which should make it a bit easier to fix than a plaster ceiling, but still a mess.

 

[tlf67]

Good job.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Dave that sucks to hear about the water leak, what a terrible time of the year for that to happen!

That looks like drywall over a slat ceiling which should make it a bit easier to fix than a plaster ceiling, but still a mess.

Thanks for your post John, it's nice to hear from you.
Yeah, it's a mess alright, but that's why we have insurance right.

I had the restoration company in yesterday and the tile company will be coming in today to do their estimate for the insurance company.
It looks as if the work isn't going to begin until after January 2, so we're going to be living out of a hotel room for a while yet.

Hope you and your family have a great Christmas,
Dave

Good job.

Thank you Sir.