A couple hours in a Colonial Cornfield

[Steve in PA]

A couple hours in a Colonial Cornfield - Luckenbooth brooch and silver cufflink!

This past Saturday was a warm sunny day, perfect digging weather. When you get these kinds of days in January you have to take advantage of them. I met up with a couple local diggers and we tried to locate an early site based off a 1792 map, but were not successful. Then we investigated a large depression that looked promising on aerial views, but turned out to be a natural feature rather than man made. So in order to save the day, John and Jim invited me to hunt a relatively new site they had found, which had given up a number of toasted coppers, dandy and tombac buttons, and other late 18[SUP]th[/SUP] century relics. Even though they had hit the site fairly hard recently, and the field was a soggy mess with corn stubble, we all managed to find some relics.

Here is a group shot of our finds. My finds are in the middle.


My finds including the base of a crude black glass bottle and some other glass and pottery


Another shot of my finds - keg spigot cap at the top, copper, dandy button, and flat button in second row, silver cufflink, part of a silver brooch and small tombac on the bottom row.


The broken silver brooch may be a Luckenbooth brooch with engraved initials "WM"



Silver cufflink with what appears to be a bird and some flowers


Nice dandy button with design

 

[Steve in PA]

Don't know how I missed this. Great link Steve and that pin would have lights-out awesome if it were whole.

Thanks Joey! Yes it would have been the BOMB if complete

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on having a successful field hunt. Those silver pieces are sweet finds as well as the buttons.

 

[Chizzy]

Nice way to salvage a day of hunting, Steve. Sometimes changing a plan is the better way to go..........
(You gonna go back for another piece of that broach?)