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I just love my colonial watering holes as they always seem to produce an item or two due to the immense amount of masking iron.
Today I put the wet suit on again and took a little dip. At first things seemed a bit slow, but as always with this one specific site, all you have to do is move 5' and explore. The first find of the day was a fired civil war era three ringer and then followed by a few small colonial shot. About 45 minutes later while working a rock ledge I heard a little squeak and had a feeling it would be silver. A short while later I was holding a nice little cut half reale cob! I forget how many that is from this one site but they are adding up. To make matters funny, I dropped it back in the water shortly after cleaning it and spent another 10 minutes trying to recover it for a second time.
After that things began rolling a little more. Button here, musket ball there piece of lead and brass. Three buttons that caught my eye (out of the six that i recovered) were these. First was a nice stone inset cuff (early 18th century) with a nice pewter setting. I recovered one like this last summer though the stone was different. Another was a big pewter flat button with unique "crown collage" design on the face and stamped with an "R" on the back. I wish this one was in better shape as most pewter buttons from this site come out perfect. Last was the BIG pewter two-piece blowhole button (in rough shape). I first thought it was a croatal bell at first until I saw the seam and the shank.
I also managed to recover a few more brass nails and tacks along with what I thought was a gold hammered small coin at first. Still not convinced that it is not gold, but can't make any design out.
Total was the cob, six buttons, four or five musket balls, the CW three ringer and CW pistol bullet along with the other colonial era lead shot. To round things out was the lead sheathing... I love these from these sites as you can see the square nail holes and such for their use.
More cobs for me! ha ha
HH
Dan
Today I put the wet suit on again and took a little dip. At first things seemed a bit slow, but as always with this one specific site, all you have to do is move 5' and explore. The first find of the day was a fired civil war era three ringer and then followed by a few small colonial shot. About 45 minutes later while working a rock ledge I heard a little squeak and had a feeling it would be silver. A short while later I was holding a nice little cut half reale cob! I forget how many that is from this one site but they are adding up. To make matters funny, I dropped it back in the water shortly after cleaning it and spent another 10 minutes trying to recover it for a second time.
After that things began rolling a little more. Button here, musket ball there piece of lead and brass. Three buttons that caught my eye (out of the six that i recovered) were these. First was a nice stone inset cuff (early 18th century) with a nice pewter setting. I recovered one like this last summer though the stone was different. Another was a big pewter flat button with unique "crown collage" design on the face and stamped with an "R" on the back. I wish this one was in better shape as most pewter buttons from this site come out perfect. Last was the BIG pewter two-piece blowhole button (in rough shape). I first thought it was a croatal bell at first until I saw the seam and the shank.
I also managed to recover a few more brass nails and tacks along with what I thought was a gold hammered small coin at first. Still not convinced that it is not gold, but can't make any design out.
Total was the cob, six buttons, four or five musket balls, the CW three ringer and CW pistol bullet along with the other colonial era lead shot. To round things out was the lead sheathing... I love these from these sites as you can see the square nail holes and such for their use.
More cobs for me! ha ha
HH
Dan
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