colonial

My name is Mike I am 37. I am a fence builder of all styles wood,chain link, residential and commercial. I love making projects out of wood like jewelry boxes, clocks and just finished a display case that I made from 200 year old nails I dug from a historical tavern. I am totally addicted to...

I am hoping this is a Sword Quillon from a hand guard off a hunting sword or short sword? Any thoughts? It is broken on one end, NOTE the ball end as it seems to match a sword Quillon? Please share your thoughts for identification. NO, it is not a drawer pull, haha. This colonial site has...

This artifact was found folded and bent, I slowly, slowly straightened it out, with some success. It is broken in half, so I sketched out what it may have oridinally looked like. LOTS of GOLD wash present, over copper. Very ornate and was found in an area that has yielded a Spanish Half...

Hello everyone!, I recently got these button's in a jar of buttons bought at an estate sale(always looking for the Washington inag.!!!)and need help w/the I.D. of these,They have been cleaned:censored:!!! But still old one's.I know there is plenty of button folk on this site so please help,The...

Got out and detected in NC and dug up a SNAKE, that's a first, here is the video: https://youtu.be/OWF7vWiXIyw Along with the snake dig, a GREAT day of discovery digging flat buttons with backmarks, 2 colonial 2 tine forks, and an excellent representative piece to a cast iron cooking pot...

So it turns out this 1/2 Spanish Silver Reale, was turned into a cuff button. I found this coin/button on New Years Day 2016 in Rolesville, NC, and posted on here, but after viewing under a USB microscope you can clearly see a round solder mark, where a shank would have been attached. This 1/2...

Retired and a member of the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Assoc. located in Southwestern Virginia. Live within 1 mi of Kane Gap which was the pass that led Boone and some 250, 000 pioneers into the Powell's Valley and on to Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, and from there the rest of America! The...

Merry Christmas to ALL! My wife got me a pair of GRAY GHOST Deep Woods headphones for my Tesoro Cibola metal detector. My mother in law was here watching "Downton Abbey", so I decided to get out of the house and validate the new Gray Ghost headphones!!! WOW, what a score for Christmas Day...

Days are unfortunately getting shorter. Showed up at a new spot today at 4 pm. This place looks like something out of a movie. Old trees etc. Anyways, second diggable signal of the day rang in at a steady 80 on the At Pro. I'm thinking its a copper penny all day, yet I notice it's at 6-8"...

This piece was found along a stream in Southeastern Pennsylvania last summer. It measures 1.5" tall, 1.0" width and 0.5" thick and weighs 92.1 grams (~3 troy ounces).The piece stands straight up when placed on a counter-top. Its appears to be lead and Its density falls between lead and silver...

Found these items today in the same general location. I think they are definitely colonial, but leave it to the experts. A Union camp was nearby as was a colonial village. Thank you in advance! Here is the link to photos. Both items appear to be iron...

Found this fine piece of brass work in a colonial cornfield. 3 3/4" x 7/8"ID x 1/8". Not Japan, US!

i went detecting yesterday (03/28/2015), next to an old sugar factory (1500-1600). The place is called "Ingenio Diego Caballero". It's in Dominican Republic. I spent only like 20 minutes next to that place and i found this little friend. any idea on how to know if it's that old?

:laughing7:??? Hello fellow tnet members...my girlfriend and I were walking in a local park here in Pinellas County Florida when she happened to stumble upon this...thing. It looks to be made of brass or copper. Pipe? Sword hilt? Any ideas? Please and Thank you-----James aka L0STANDF0UND PS...

Hunted a site yesterday that has historically yielded early colonial period items - farthings, maravedis, and tons of buttons from that time. Yesterday I found three items that appear to be some sort of brass horse tack and two of them are quite decorative. I'm really intrigued by the one that...

I have a 3 troy oz (92.1 g) silver pendent/gorget with what appears to be William Penn on the front and an elephant on the reverse side. Their are also many other little symbols carved into the sides, top and bottom. The symbols look similar to those that were found on the Lenape Stone found in...

I went to a new location to metal detect at, but the second I got there it realized that going there might have been a mistake. On the maps this place had looked so good, and it was right in the middle of a colonial town. As I walked down the trail I could already see junk on the surface. There...

Was invited to hunt a spot where we've been waiting for the grass to be cut. This spot has produced 60 coppers at this point. They usually come out of the ground quite poor, but there's a lot of them and an inaugural button came out of the site also. I found these 3 over the last couple of days...

I found this shoe buckle metal detecting the other day. It was 10" down and seems to be made of brass. It measures 1 3/4" by 2 3/4 ". I posted pics on another discussion board and they all say it's an authentic Colonial era shoe buckle. My questions are: 1) Is it really that old? 2) Is it...

I found this at the MA site where I found an 1803 copper penny. Anyone? On the back it looks like there might be a cursive "L". THANK YOU in advance for the wicked smaht replies I know I'm gonna get. You people are the best! :notworthy: