Black powder guys, dont laugh... I just Ided this...DUH lol

[CTwoods]

Black powder guys, don't laugh... I just Id'ed this...DUH lol

Went back yesterday very late to where I found my oldest ever relic, 5 minutes from home.

Did not expect much at this, the most obvious big cellar/barn, mill and 2 dams site, in this area.

Found a crumpled up thin decorative brass "home furnishing décor", ... Today, I was bored, and Just a few minutes ago, straightened it out and aligned the broken piece. then I noticed the tree was upside down...and as soon as I turned it around....duh...a powder flask piece.

How to you date these?

What was the rest of it?

Also, a thin brass squished tube that I found there last week, 40 feet away. It was a cylinder with no taper, no fancy etchings, and it is necked down to a flared end. Both ends are open, no threads, no tiny holes to hold something to it.

The site may have been in use to early 1900s maybe

 

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[trapperart]

Nice find congrats. It would of had a small lever that operated a slide valve and a tapered tube for pouring the powder.

 

[CTwoods]

Nice find congrats. It would of had a small lever that operated a slide valve and a tapered tube for pouring the powder.

Thanks on the lever valve. I will keep looking.

Something I found last week, 30 feet away from the flask. An upside-down domed chunk of lead that cooled in a tiny iron kettle. I was thinking it must be from making round balls, and now I know it was. There also was a broken 1700s Tombac button near there.

I like to see a site "come together" with additional finds. The easy big coppers were grabbed long ago on this site, but I honestly don't care.

 

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[against the wind]

Very cool that you are able to piece that site together.
Congrats on your finds.

 

[kingskid1611]

Interesting place you have there.

 

[texjim]

Looks like your thin brass tube is an old shotgun shell. Nice job on your finds

 

[gunsil]

No way to prove your lead piece was left over from casting round balls. It could just as easily be left over from casting fishing sinkers or lead toys. Dunno what the brass tube was, definitely not a shotgun shell. Looks like a great place to hunt!!

 

[CTwoods]

No way to prove your lead piece was left over from casting round balls. It could just as easily be left over from casting fishing sinkers or lead toys. Dunno what the brass tube was, definitely not a shotgun shell. Looks like a great place to hunt!!

I'll try to get some pics of this site. You really have to see what is here in person, to get the same idea about casting roundballs. 450+ acre site. The town says no field on the other side, but I see some still showing WAY out in a 1934 aerial photo online.

Huge high dollar 3 sided barn foundation built into a hill, best I've seen on construction. Might be a later one as the operation grew. Older ramshackle barn? foundation just across the road on a dam site with big pond,(partly visible in pic 2 below) but I don't see a spillway to make mill power...but dam is covered in downed huge trees from a F1 tornado, (that also hit my home 5 minutes away)

Homesite cellar seems destroyed, I think I know where it was, right next to a small orchard. Also, the town says there is a sawmill site and wrecked dam out back that I have not walked to yet.

Town bought it 60 years ago for a walking park/open space deal. I found a burn pile (2) with bricks. Looks dumped or pushed by a bucket crawler. I think the town back then, burned whatever home remains that were still not rotted. I keep a clamrake in my car waiting for the piles to thaw so I will rake/scan. I found a broken Tombac in the top, before it froze. Some items in pile were not burned, so I keep dreaming

I think it was a very early home, added onto like most were, over time, and that is why I don't just go by the bricks (which would be later) versus stone chimney


EDIT, also note the size of the trees growing from the burnpile in pic one; that seems likely that this burn was 60 years ago when the town got the property.

 

[A2coins]

That area looks like it wood be a great hunt site good stuff