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A tree full of musket balls, odds and ends and a DeSoto

Doug from NS

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Here are some of my finds over the last week or so.

Yesterday I went out with one of my sons and check out the rotted stump of a very large and old tree that was just screaming with signals. It turns out that it was used for target practice a very long time ago. With musket balls and 2 ringer shells

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On the same day I also found an interesting lead heart that seems to have been a fitting of some sort as well as a couple of buckles.

In the same area the day prior I found a harmonica reed, the destroyed brass case of a compass, toe taps, the remains of a broach with a flower center a 1915 British Halfpenny and another 1864 Nova Scotia Cent. My son found the clock movement just up the road a few hundred yards at the next cellar hole. There are a dozen or so foundations along the road over a kilometer or two.

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The Nova Scotia Cent has beautiful detail, I have not yet cleaned all the dirt from it. I found it under a rock wall where I removed (and later replaced) a couple of stones and there was Victoria, chilling with a salamander.

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And finally, for fun, here is a 'discovery' from last weekend that I thought I would share, a dual rear axle DeSoto Airflow Delivery. There can't be many of these about

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Looks like that tree died of lead poisoning! Nice finds!
 
Funny..I found a tree area loaded with a variety of bullets..some shot and some not shot. I thought someone was hiding there and got shot at but target practice is a more likely scenario!ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1560358255.620132.webpImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1560358272.799707.webp
 
Chad Hiltz made the Desoto I think. Bad Chad Autos I think its called. Nice finds!

Chub
 
Nice group of finds. I'm curious about the heart. Is the back plain, or is there an attachment device?
 
Target practice tree wow thats pretty cool
 
Very cool finds. I dream of finding a tree like that loaded with CW bullets. I remember seeing one a museum when I was a kid:icon_thumleft:
 
Fascinating post - congrats to you and thanks for sharing! :skullflag: :occasion14:
 
That's a nice group of finds. Good luck on the cleaning.
 
Nice group of finds. I'm curious about the heart. Is the back plain, or is there an attachment device?

I am curious about it too, I do like it. Yes, there was an attachment device of some sort

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Nice hunts, very cool finding all that old lead in the trees, nice relic saves & great looking cent, congrats on all. That delivery is one great looking car
 
I am curious about it too, I do like it. Yes, there was an attachment device of some sort

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I'm wondering if it could have been a lead filled martingale or bridal ornament and the brass face was lost? What you have is the lead fill back?
 
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Nice finds. Congrats!
 
Nice assortment of finds. I like the old coin save. Congrats
 
Loves me a tree fulla bullets, my buddy’s backyard has a few
 
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I had assumed that it might be part of a bridal or something like that, you may very well be right that it might be the lead fill.
 
Love me a tree fully bullets, my buddy’s backyard has a few

Good Times! I am going to go back and check the hill behind it to see how often they missed!
 
bad chad is a great tv show,he uses a lot of junk and not a lot of tools.he is in nova scotia somewere.
cool finds brad
 
bad chad is a great tv show,he uses a lot of junk and not a lot of tools.he is in nova scotia somewere.
cool finds brad

I just looked him up. I know exactly where that is. I will have to drop by this summer
 
Very Nice !!! Congrats!!!
 

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