FoundInNC
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- Location
- Mebane, North Carolina
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT Gold and AT Pro
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I bought a new house, built in 1937, with 11 acres a year and a half ago. I detected the yard and found some early 1900s relics but nothing older. I had a visitor about three weeks ago of an 84 year old man that grew up in this house! He was talking about growing up on the farm and told me there was an old Indian cemetery behind my house. While trying to figure out where exactly the old cemetery was, the old man said that it was between the feed barn and the old chimney. The feed barn is still standing, but the chimney I had never seen. I promptly asked him what chimney he was speaking of. He replied that when he was a kid there was a chimney in the middle of the field and they would always plow around it. He said that his father had him and his brothers remove the rocks when he was very young. I got to thinking and something clicked....I remembered a ford (rock crossing)across the little creek in the edge of the field the man was referring to. I remember the first time I saw them thinking of how wild it was that the large square rocks were in the creek. They were huge and had been there for years. I assumed that they were moved from the site of an old log home, likely from a nearby location.
I finally got to go search for this mystery cabin site today. I started detecting down by the creek that the rocks are in, and moved around the perimeter of the nine acre field, digging all ferrous targets. After two hours I dug a nail, a hand forged nail! I then found myself In a bed of iron approximately 100'x100'. There were targets everywhere. I was digging old cast iron and hand forged nails by the pocketfuls. Once I pinned down the location of where the home was likely at, I shut my iron off on my AT-Pro. I was so excited to have finally found this long lost homesite! Within ten minutes of detecting with iron muted, I had a repeatable tone near the surface of the ground. I quickly and carefully dug it, and it was a flat brass item that initially looked like a flat button. After cleaning it off, I realized it was a top to a spoon handle WITH an engraved name letter! I hope this helps me identify something about the family that lived in the cabin. I had just put my phone away from taking pictures when I got another repeatable tone on my AT-Pro. Knowing that I was definitely on a possible colonial cabin site, I carefully dug a hole. As soon as I flipped the grass plug over, a saw a round silver coin!!! IT WAS AN 1830 CAPPED BUST DIME!!!!! It appears to be a high grade, maybe someone here knows!!! This is actually my third capped bust dime. The others were nice but not this nice!!! (See my banner finds)
I made a video of the reveal and took lots of pictures. After cleaning up some of the iron, I realized that I had dug a flintlock musket FRIZZEN and a very old round wood chisel! There were also some pieces of hand forged door handles and door hinges in my iron pile. I can't wait to get back out to this site! Stay tuned! I am one happy digger!!! Good research pays off!!!
Beautiful 1830 capped bust dime
This is the spoon handle piece.
This is the flintlock musket frizzen.
Here is the chisel.
Iron finds
Creek crossing with the cabin chimney stones!
Picture showing the size of the field
Below is the actual site. Interesting how broomstraw did not grow where the home stood.
Below: chimney stones used as a ford for small creek
I finally got to go search for this mystery cabin site today. I started detecting down by the creek that the rocks are in, and moved around the perimeter of the nine acre field, digging all ferrous targets. After two hours I dug a nail, a hand forged nail! I then found myself In a bed of iron approximately 100'x100'. There were targets everywhere. I was digging old cast iron and hand forged nails by the pocketfuls. Once I pinned down the location of where the home was likely at, I shut my iron off on my AT-Pro. I was so excited to have finally found this long lost homesite! Within ten minutes of detecting with iron muted, I had a repeatable tone near the surface of the ground. I quickly and carefully dug it, and it was a flat brass item that initially looked like a flat button. After cleaning it off, I realized it was a top to a spoon handle WITH an engraved name letter! I hope this helps me identify something about the family that lived in the cabin. I had just put my phone away from taking pictures when I got another repeatable tone on my AT-Pro. Knowing that I was definitely on a possible colonial cabin site, I carefully dug a hole. As soon as I flipped the grass plug over, a saw a round silver coin!!! IT WAS AN 1830 CAPPED BUST DIME!!!!! It appears to be a high grade, maybe someone here knows!!! This is actually my third capped bust dime. The others were nice but not this nice!!! (See my banner finds)
I made a video of the reveal and took lots of pictures. After cleaning up some of the iron, I realized that I had dug a flintlock musket FRIZZEN and a very old round wood chisel! There were also some pieces of hand forged door handles and door hinges in my iron pile. I can't wait to get back out to this site! Stay tuned! I am one happy digger!!! Good research pays off!!!
Beautiful 1830 capped bust dime
This is the spoon handle piece.
This is the flintlock musket frizzen.
Here is the chisel.
Iron finds
Creek crossing with the cabin chimney stones!
Picture showing the size of the field
Below is the actual site. Interesting how broomstraw did not grow where the home stood.
Below: chimney stones used as a ford for small creek
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