Assorted Finds at 1700s Site

[grasshopper]

Back at it again yesterday despite 40 degree temps and some rain showers... (isn't it almost May?)

No coins to report but did come across a number of relics.

A handful of buttons, a mix of flatties and tombacs, some marked, some not. Nothing over the top. Approaching 120 buttons from this site now. Also got a couple of shoe buckle fragments.

A pair of cufflinks with a sunburst pattern, and a single cufflink with a bird/urn. I've heard about the supposed GW connection to this design, but have also heard it's not true. Either way I'm happy with it.

Got an eagle infantry button with some nice gilting that I already posted over on "What is it?". I was confused because I haven't seen a flat 1-piece CW button. Wondering if maybe it was a convex button at some point and it got flattened - might explain why the back mark is so much smaller than the button itself. Backmark is Scovill Co Waterbury.

Eyeballed a marked clay pipe - PETER on one side, DORNI on the other.

In addition, I wanted to share pics of some of my surface finds, some nice decorated pottery, and various other stoneware/dinnerware pieces. The big piece of cobalt stoneware is quite old and can probably be attributed to Captain James Morgan (New Jersey, late 1700s.)

Arthur F. Goldberg, Peter Warwick, and Leslie Warwick | The Eighteenth-Century New Jersey Stoneware Potteries of Captain James Morgan and the Kemple Family | Ceramics in America 2008)


I already posted on the Native American Artifacts Forum, but a week or two ago the homeowner found what I have discovered to be a Native American grooved Adze tool. The guys over there tell me its Late Archaic, 3500-5000 years old. No other Indian artifacts that I've seen there so I'm wondering how it got there

Thanks for looking!!

 

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[Hawks88]

Those are great finds Congrats

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, some great finds you found, congrats

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice relics and pottery, congratulations!

 

[Vldetecting]

That’s some nice relics!

 

[sutphin]

PIPE STEM AWESOME, POTTERY SHERDS AND ALL .

 

[smokeythecat]

Great finds, btw most of the pottery is mid 19th century transfer ware and some of the non descript pottery can have a much larger date range.

 

[grasshopper]

Great finds, btw most of the pottery is mid 19th century transfer ware and some of the non descript pottery can have a much larger date range.

Thanks. The pottery is everywhere and I just pick up the stuff that looks interesting

The Native American piece doesn't fit as I haven't seen anything else that would be consistent with an Indian camp/settlement. Someone suggested it could have been traded with the people who lived in the house - they were one of the first settlers in the area.

 

[mhess22]

Great finds you have there! Any idea on how old the pipe is? I found a piece of one the other day in a field along with an early 1800s toasted classic large cent and was wondering how old it was.

 

[colonialct]

Awesome early finds

 

[grasshopper]

Great finds you have there! Any idea on how old the pipe is? I found a piece of one the other day in a field along with an early 1800s toasted classic large cent and was wondering how old it was.

Thanks! I think the pipe is mid 1800s based on what I've read online. I have found other unmarked pieces but have no idea if there's any way to date them. The site dates back to circa 1790.

 

[Silver Tree Chaser]

Great finds! I saw somewhere that cufflink before with the connection to GW.