Recent content by villagenut

Kody appears to be fairly new to the forum....I will give him the benefit of doubt. I only call names to those who deserve it...after all, I have a life outside of tnet, don't want to sweat the small stuff.

Looks similar to a Trifari brooch

What I see there is mostly concretion, meaning there was not enough there to conserve. No harm done....if you hadn't done it, the elements would have finished it off as it now was exposed to oxygen.

I don't think it sounds silly at all. I remember my first 1800s dated Indian head cent, the homeowner was quick to grab it out of the finds pile. My first thought was to go buy one exactly like it or even a little better shape one and see if they would trade me. I wanted that Indian from the...

I misunderstood your post no.3, but I am on the fence as to what it actually is. It does look similar to a clothes line pulley as Benny suggested.

That would be the biggest suspender clip I have ever seen if that was the bottom half of it......just sayin

That would be my preferred method.....or you can whack it with a hammer and that will knock off the big stuff. If it is forged, it won't hurt it.

Iron spikes were used in ship construction for fastening above the water line....but you gotta get it derusted to tell any further what it may have been from

Beaten but beautiful

Those buttons are beautiful.......sandy florida soil is so kind

May your first detector.... not be your last detector

I could go on and on how archeologists screwed over 5he local historical record there back in 2020. I was much involved in it and wrote a nice sized report on my findings and how their agenda was far too biased and misleading.....interesting stuff went on there.

Yup

I grew up on the streets you are diggin at.....I was diggin holes all over that neighborhood back in the late 1970s through recent years...... send me a PM and I will show you some historic stuff I have dug from the area, if you are interested. I know the history of all of those blocks there on...

Reminds me of part of a vintage yard water sprinkler....they had lots of cool designs to them back then.