300 Million - 1940’s... last week

pa-dirt_nc-sand

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Hit a few spots in the park woods last week. Trying to get in a couple more hunts before the briars, poison ivy and mosquitoes get bad.

First spot was a coal mining stop on a now defunct set of RR tracks. Lots of 19-23 signals with these miners tags. The most I have found in one hunt.

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Found this near the tags, about the size of an extra large chicken egg, thinking wild turkey, mostly off white with some speckles.

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Here is the roundness.

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The 1865 IHP has some nice details.

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The Allegheny County Police must have used some “strong arm tactics” back in the day.

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Here is the handful of miscellaneous finds.

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The piece in the upper right was iD’d as a 300 million year old fossil, found in a stream bed.

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I believe the spoon collar/ring is silver, but can’t make out the mark.

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And the piece in the center bottom is a smashed ring, seems to be lead, from the China-Burma-India theater of WW2.

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You never know what you will find...

Oh, and some glass surface finds, Billy Baxter sassafras soda early 1900’s.

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And some horse tack that sounded like big silvers...

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Good luck out there!
 

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Metal Headz

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I'm always tempted to play the lottery on the miners tag numbers. The police button is really sweet. Good stuff!
 

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What an excellent variety of finds. I like all of those Miners tags.
 

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