Bloody BILL!

[Capncrunch]

I have recently joined a group of detectorists, who are going to attempt to find relics in Ray County- for The Ray County Museum.
Today was the first day of our first project- searching for evidence of the ambush of Bloody Bill Anderson and his approx. 150 men, October 26, 1864. Although there were 300 Union soldiers who ambushed 150 guerillas that day, 156 years ago, we didn't find ANY bullets where we searched today (maybe time has obscured the actual site of the skirmish?).
However, I DID find a few items of interest: one brass (or copper?) hand-hammered rivet, one adjustable wrench- minus the wooden handle, a square-headed bolt, an extra-long nail, a thin, tapered piece of steel and some sort of tool made by Indians (spear head?).
Any Info for any of these items would be appreciated, as I am always about the history of items I find!
Happy hunting folks and God bless!
John

 

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[63bkpkr]

That adjustable wrench remings me of 1920's metric wrench..

Keep having fun "out there"! 63bkpkr

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!! That adjustable wrench has been around for awhile !

 

[trdking]

Ford Motor included one of these in every tool kit for model T and A Quite possibly one from Ford as there were many many of them issued One for every car sold. I have several They will say ford forged into the steel Let me know?

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, keep digging goodies await your coil!

 

[U.B.]

Nice finds for sure. Keep researching, and looking, for the ambush site. To find it would be the detector’s dream come true.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Adjustable wrench, arrowhead point, knapsack rivet ?. Nice relic finds.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Sounds and looks like you got hooked up with a cool group. God Speed on finding the relics for the museum.

 

[GeoW]

Nice monkey wrench!

 

[pulltabfelix]

Nice finds. I like the idea of working with local historical societies. I have been thinking about doing so with my county historical society. But darn, I would have a hard time giving up a CSA belt buckle if I found one.

 

[Capncrunch]

Nice finds. I like the idea of working with local historical societies. I have been thinking about doing so with my county historical society. But darn, I would have a hard time giving up a CSA belt buckle if I found one.

I understand that pulltabfelix! I have never found a CW bullet and I knew that if it did I wouldn't 'own' it, but a picture is as good as the item! I'm just glad to have friends who I can exchange knowledge with (mostly from them to me, their base is wider than mine- LOL!), hunt with, in and/or outside the Museum group! Plus it's good practice with the detector- like finding that rivet in all the trash that had accumulated 10 yards into a field, beside a road that has been there for over 150 years! I'm definitely learning the Simplex better, because that tone stopped me dead and I dug it, even tho I'd already emptied one finds-bag full of barbed wire, bottle caps, aluminum cans and pieces, and iron implement parts! I'm really starting to enjoy MD hunting again!
Happy hunting folks!

 

[Silvermonkey]

This sounds like a very interesting project John. Good luck with your future hunts. There's got to be more to find out there!