17th Century Pit yields 1600s Jetons and Charles ii Farthing,Marked Pipes and Whizzer

[Ahab8]

I finally found a little time for treasure hunting. Decided to go for the old stuff this time. I whipped up a small sifter and decided to go to the site I found the Latten spoons at. I was hoping to sift the more concentrated areas to see what turned up. I used the GPX to see if I could find some deeper targets that I could sift. Second target was pretty deep and I was blessed to find some ash in the hole. With hopes that it may be a trash pit I started to dig down and see if I could isolate the perimeter of the ash layer. I found a deep musket ball and a nice marked pipe stem. Suddenly the stems started coming fast and furious. I was psyched to say the least. These 1600s finds are tough here in the US. Occasionally I would pull out my pinpointer to scan for metallic objects. At one point I found 4 round metallic objects and hoped that one may be a coin. One of the objects had 2 holes in it and looked to be a button. This hunt was the most fun I've ever had treasure hunting. I could become very addicted to pit and privy digging. It was an incredible day and produced some incredible early finds. I'm hoping to get a little assistance on the coin and jetons. The pipe stems are massive and date around 1670-1680 (Llewelyn Evans) British pipe maker. Among the finds were what I believe is a small jeton, a larger jeton that was turned into a button which I consider a killer personal find. The coin I believe is a Charles ii farthing which would date from 1672-1680 I believe. There was also a nice lead whizzed toy in the pit and a strange mystery item that I can't even tell you the composition of. More than 20 pipe pieces were in the pit. So much fun pulling them out of there. I consider any 17th Century finds in the states to be very special. These will go in the 1600s display.













The mystery piece



This pic shows how massive these early stems are. I put them next to one that came from an 1812 pit.

 

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[G.A.P.metal]

Outstanding hunt Abe
Your killing it 1600s stuff !
Gary

 

[digging440yrs]

---Wow, that would be an awesome dig--

 

[CRUSADER]

The Nuremberg, German Jetton is somewhat coping an English coin.
Made by Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer - 1663-1709
CARLOVS II DEI GRATIA.
LAZA : GOTTL : LAVFF RECH PFE COVNTERS

 

[creade]

Awesome hunt love all those pipe stems,I've only found one in a pit without marks. Keep digging there,who knows what was tossed. There could be real old bottle or unbroken inkwells

 

[Blak bart]

From the looks of those stems must be a little higher class residents. Nice. Congrats.

 

[Underwonder]

17th Century Pit yields 1600s Jetons and Charles ii Farthing,Marked Pipes and...

You seemed to have found a "gold mine". The only thing more exciting than finding cool stuff is reading about someone else's great hunt. Congratulations! ...Looking forward to your next visit there. How did you recognize the pit?

 

[coinman123]

Damn, You are doing good Ahab! I have only found one stem ever that has a maker's mark, and it was late 18th century. Awesome jeton, farthing, and whizzer too! Won't be long until you find another tree coin .

Awesome finds, like creade said, there could easily be some unbroken inkwells and bottles in there! Good luck!

No 1600's stuff where I live, unless something was dropped one hundred years later.

 

[CRUSADER]

Charles II farthing

 

[Argentium]

Wow ! Outrageous finds man !! You have access to some killer sites for sure .

 

[pepperj]

Oh crap I was going to do a post up but you really stole the show Abe! Killer sift and hunt makes one wonder what we actually walk over without knowing the depths and finds that are lurking beneath.

 

[Ahab8]

Charles II farthing

Thanks Cru. I was hoping you'd chime in. Getting a bit out of my wheelhouse with these dated finds. Wish I could locate more of them. I read that they made game tokens that were basically jeton copies. Any chance that's what I found?

 

[Mackaydon]

Yes, the Carolvs II is a jeton;not a farthing
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/243793
Don.......

 

[Ahab8]

Outstanding hunt Abe
Your killing it 1600s stuff !
Gary

Thanks buddy. Happy to get back this far

 

[Ahab8]

---Wow, that would be an awesome dig--

Thanks man. Super happy with this hunt

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some very nice and old finds. Well done

 

[Ahab8]

Awesome hunt love all those pipe stems,I've only found one in a pit without marks. Keep digging there,who knows what was tossed. There could be real old bottle or unbroken inkwells

Psyched with the stems. My collection before this hunt was sad to say the least. I found 5 times what I had before

 

[Ahab8]

From the looks of those stems must be a little higher class residents. Nice. Congrats.

They certainly are impressive and huge. Hoping they dropped a hammered silver out there

 

[Ahab8]

You seemed to have found a "gold mine". The only thing more exciting than finding cool stuff is reading about someone else's great hunt. Congratulations! ...Looking forward to your next visit there. How did you recognize the pit?

Thanks Underwonder. I lucked out and found some ash in the bottom of a plug. Figured it may be where the burned the trash

 

[Ahab8]

Damn, You are doing good Ahab! I have only found one stem ever that has a maker's mark, and it was late 18th century. Awesome jeton, farthing, and whizzer too! Won't be long until you find another tree coin .

Awesome finds, like creade said, there could easily be some unbroken inkwells and bottles in there! Good luck!

No 1600's stuff where I live, unless something was dropped one hundred years later.

Man I'd love to get another tree coin in my collection. Got pretty excited upon seeing round discs in a site this old