Back at The Cellar Hole,: Complete C.1800 Coat, Button, and Musket balls

[coinman123]

Me and a friend went to the cellar hole again, first we stopped at another one I spotted on the lidar. This one was filled with 1950's and 1960's steel and iron, and was already heavily metal detected, around a year ago based on the holes I saw there. I found a musketball embedded in wood on the side of another person's hole, and then left to go to my main one. There I got a signal and found 6 early 1800's coat buttons in one hole, around an inch deep. And my friend found a toasted pewter button, and I found a tombac. I am going to try a new lidar site, as this one is drying out, I will be back in the fall though.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the research and nice finds!

 

[coinman123]

The backmarks are in a very fancy large script, I believe that they say, "Gesetrono" give or take a letter or two, and then "Standard" in very simple text. I know that standard means that it is the lowest quality gilt, but I can't find any reference of any buttons with "Gesetrono" or anything similar. Thanks for looking.

 

[Kurios1]

Great day scoring some cool old buttons. I wish I had cellar holes around my parts. Sounds like fishing in a barrel type hunting.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[coinman123]

Great day scoring some cool old buttons. I wish I had cellar holes around my parts. Sounds like fishing in a barrel type hunting.

Thanks! Cellar holes can be amazing if you find one abandoned and never disturbed since around 1850, to reduce newer trash. It seems like after 1850, most cellar holes have a large amount of big Victorian iron, and trash accumulation everywhere within twenty feet of the cellar hole. It also helps also having them never have been metal detected before. I have a map of every cellar hole in one town, based on an 1850's map of a town. There were around 50 cellar holes, and half of them were public, and around 15-20 were accessible. I went to almost all of them, and each one had old metal detecting holes with trash on the side of them. I couldn't even go anywhere near the actual cellar holes because of all the iron and trash. I checked other maps and historic aerials, and realized that those cellar holes were all abandoned between around 1940-1970. I figured out that I can use lidar to see older ones in the woods, and have another one I am going to visit today a mile from my house. Good luck, I bet there are some around where you are, I hope you find one!

 

[creade]

Great buttons Definitely go back there. With that kind of action, probably a few coins somewhere .