Based on finds can you date the time period?

Holly_squirrel · Apr 10, 2013

I've dug up all this stuff from my yard.. Can anyone give me an educated guess on how far back some of this stuff dates? 1800's, 1900's?

Hub and parts from metal or round wagon wheel and a part from a single tree

Hatchet, possible chisel / blacksmith tool, part of a plow blade( if any of these are wrong ID's, please share)

Tbe small I don't know pile

Front of this pictures in IDK pile... Lock?

The big I don't know thing

Big idk thing again

VictorVincimus · Apr 11, 2013

You helped me identify the piece on the first pic on the left. I dug one of these up at a house that was built and used until te 1860's. is it a yoke that it attaches to?

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VictorVincimus · Apr 11, 2013

Holly. Have you dug anything up from the blast furnaces at all? I found the casting floor with items still encased in casting sand. They are two feet down but I haven't dug them out all the way because of there size, poison ivy, and lack of a big shovel. They must be castoffs. There are at least two with different shapes. I'll post em when I get brave enough to risk the ivy. Last case was brutal with half the body affected.

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Holly_squirrel · Apr 11, 2013

VictorVincimus said:
Holly. Have you dug anything up from the blast furnaces at all? I found the casting floor with items still encased in casting sand. They are two feet down but I haven't dug them out all the way because of there size, poison ivy, and lack of a big shovel. They must be castoffs. There are at least two with different shapes. I'll post em when I get brave enough to risk the ivy. Last case was brutal with half the body affected.

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Gonna send you a pm

Holly_squirrel · Apr 11, 2013

Victor, my computer hates me... It's not letting get into the site.

Well nevermind this is the wrong pic... Lol

mical66 · Apr 11, 2013

hope bigfoot1 or anyone else took my post wrong . i have liked and agreed with BF1 many times,,, just i dont think the item is a part of a well

Holly_squirrel · Apr 11, 2013

mical66 said:
hope bigfoot1 or anyone else took my post wrong . i have liked and agreed with BF1 many times,,, just i dont think the item is a part of a well

Nah, I don't think this lil group in this thread is that sensitive

maxpower · Apr 12, 2013

picture four is the head of a railroad spike ---- i've seen them cut off and used as parts of door knockers, pict 6 looks like a pry bar possibly for a tire removing

ABruce · Apr 12, 2013

HollySnow, here's how to make a bunch of money. Rebury everything and contact Ric Savage from the TV show Savage Diggers. Tell him that you think some 19th century great historic event or happening took place in your yard and you think there are relics to be found. Make him want to film a show there. Be a tough negotiator and get a 40% cut and then let him dig up the stuff and sell it to a local antiques dealer for $7500. of which you'll get 40%!
Hell, it works on TV! :icon_thumleft:

TheCannonballGuy · Apr 12, 2013

Some people here have already seen these photos of rein-guides (also called rein terrets) showing them ON the horse-harness, but Holly hasn't, so I'm posting them for her.

Holly, although rein-guides have existed for many centuries, the specific form you found dates from the latter 1800s into the first third of the 20th-Century. That being said, some are still being manufactured and used today. See one of the photos below, showing rein-guides in use in a 21st-Century photo.

Another photo below shows how the speciic form you found was attached to the horse's buggy-or-wagon-harness. Note the nut on the bottom of the rein-guide's threaded stud which goes through the thick leather and the iron frame beneath the leather.

Holly_squirrel · Apr 12, 2013

maxpower said:
picture four is the head of a railroad spike ---- i've seen them cut off and used as parts of door knockers, pict 6 looks like a pry bar possibly for a tire removing

I have to respectfully disagree on those. The rectangular iron with the knob top and hole in center... Really looks like tbe interior of a lock. I have radial spikes. And this lock thing is far wider than the spikes. Certainly not impossible. And the thing you thought could be a pry bar was pictured as well as could be.. It was bolted to something..

That part that bends down has two holes for bolting

Silver Searcher · Apr 12, 2013

I thought we had already established that the date range of finds stemed from 1800's ..(which is what was asked) ....don't know why people keep on posting the same dates.

SS

CoilyGirl · Apr 12, 2013

Wow,I could spend awhile day helping you,great finds! I particularly like the brass reins guide,reminds me of a more gentle time in history.

farmdump · Apr 12, 2013

These are all great finds! If you can, try searching the place down the road were you said Ben. franklin stayed. If you could find something that belonged to him in the ground, such as a button, that could bring BIG money.

pa plateau hiker · Apr 12, 2013

I guess no one read where I mentioned the last relic could be a drop hitch.

Holly_squirrel · Apr 12, 2013

farmdump said:
These are all great finds! If you can, try searching the place down the road were you said Ben. franklin stayed. If you could find something that belonged to him in the ground, such as a button, that could bring BIG money.

It's a preserved historical village ... So not a chance .... Darn it

Holly_squirrel · Apr 12, 2013

pa plateau hiker said:
I guess no one read where I mentioned the last relic could be a drop hitch.

I think I replied back to you about it, sorry if not. I did look up drop hitches and couldn't find a urging similar . The loop end is also off to the one side... So not sure that's work

farmdump · Apr 16, 2013

That sucks! Oh well, im sure there are plenty of good colonial houses nearby since Benjamin Franklin had a house down the road from you. I wonder what the town was like back in the Revolution? The town that I live in was founded in 1818 but settled in 1780. Benjamin Lincoln actually built a house in the town in the late 1780s. It is the oldest house in the town. Happy Hunting!

Holly_squirrel · Apr 16, 2013

farmdump said:
That sucks! Oh well, im sure there are plenty of good colonial houses nearby since Benjamin Franklin had a house down the road from you. I wonder what the town was like back in the Revolution? The town that I live in was founded in 1818 but settled in 1780. Benjamin Lincoln actually built a house in the town in the late 1780s. It is the oldest house in the town. Happy Hunting!

Just to correct history here.. Ben Franklin didnt own the house, he did stay at it and installed a stove n worked with the blast furnace connected to the village to build the stoves