CTwoods
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- east central Connecticut
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- Relic Hunting
I've lived here for 8 years and never knew there were so many sites around me. Duh. I keep finding unhunted ones too. Found this site by studying many maps and spotting a road that simply could not be there.
No snow, and I thought the ground was unfrozen, so I went back to a pasture where two cellars should be. In January on my scouting trip, the place was frozen solid, but found a nicely done well and a pile of very early hearth bricks, but could not locate the 2nd homesite.
Got there today at 12:30 and was trying to scan the ground for hot spots and targets, but kept getting distracted trying to find the other home. The center of the pasture is nasty thick thorns with random cow paths punched here and there.
Started of with the broken pewter spoon which has "fancy" on both sides of stem, and a bit of fancy onto the bowl. But I hit frozen ground 4" down and it was 6" Date? IDK. The other spoon is silver plate over brass, but same amount of extra fancy on both sides; that's a first for me
Then got a big Dandy button really quick, but shallow. Looked like it had some fancy, but kept going and hit a total of 4 flat buttons. Got them cleaned at home, and all four have super fancy! That is rare around here, and I don't think I have any small and medium ones that have any design, from other sites in town.
The biggest Dandy has areas of gilt, silver or gold, can't tell yet, and has designs all over that are tough to see here. The 2nd largest is strange; it is heavy cast and good alloy? as it is mint. But my best is the Tombac with hand stamped outer designs, and hand scribed flower. It's a real beauty. And the small one is sweet also, as it has hand done flower. None have backmarks, the smallest is slightly domed w/concave back.
There is other stuff; tried digging some better iron hits to see what this place was, or for dating. Very heavy axe, and the other biggest thing is a mini shovel with handle ripped off. Ox shoe from pasture. Some lead from site and pasture Trapezoid harness buckle and "rounded rectangle harness, and a harness tack ring.
I can't tell if the nail is rosehead?
Hand done relics are my favorites, so I had a super good time today. 1/2 mile walk in, uphill. I'm no youngster
There was a road through the pasture, coming off the state road, Then it went across the RR tracks, then 1000 yards more, to go across the river. Tried hard to find any hint of the roadbed, or gate openings in the stonewalls, near the tracks and scouting the rivebanks... Not one hint of the road. They must have rebuilt the holes in all the stone walls too.
No snow, and I thought the ground was unfrozen, so I went back to a pasture where two cellars should be. In January on my scouting trip, the place was frozen solid, but found a nicely done well and a pile of very early hearth bricks, but could not locate the 2nd homesite.
Got there today at 12:30 and was trying to scan the ground for hot spots and targets, but kept getting distracted trying to find the other home. The center of the pasture is nasty thick thorns with random cow paths punched here and there.
Started of with the broken pewter spoon which has "fancy" on both sides of stem, and a bit of fancy onto the bowl. But I hit frozen ground 4" down and it was 6" Date? IDK. The other spoon is silver plate over brass, but same amount of extra fancy on both sides; that's a first for me
Then got a big Dandy button really quick, but shallow. Looked like it had some fancy, but kept going and hit a total of 4 flat buttons. Got them cleaned at home, and all four have super fancy! That is rare around here, and I don't think I have any small and medium ones that have any design, from other sites in town.
The biggest Dandy has areas of gilt, silver or gold, can't tell yet, and has designs all over that are tough to see here. The 2nd largest is strange; it is heavy cast and good alloy? as it is mint. But my best is the Tombac with hand stamped outer designs, and hand scribed flower. It's a real beauty. And the small one is sweet also, as it has hand done flower. None have backmarks, the smallest is slightly domed w/concave back.
There is other stuff; tried digging some better iron hits to see what this place was, or for dating. Very heavy axe, and the other biggest thing is a mini shovel with handle ripped off. Ox shoe from pasture. Some lead from site and pasture Trapezoid harness buckle and "rounded rectangle harness, and a harness tack ring.
I can't tell if the nail is rosehead?
Hand done relics are my favorites, so I had a super good time today. 1/2 mile walk in, uphill. I'm no youngster
There was a road through the pasture, coming off the state road, Then it went across the RR tracks, then 1000 yards more, to go across the river. Tried hard to find any hint of the roadbed, or gate openings in the stonewalls, near the tracks and scouting the rivebanks... Not one hint of the road. They must have rebuilt the holes in all the stone walls too.
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