Colonial goodies at my community park!

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I have exhaustively researched and hunted my 400 acre township park in W PA. Many good finds at 5 old homesite locations. All were relatively easy to find with modern map and lidar techniques over the last 6 years.

This week was about scouting and hunting 4 spots that are not on any maps but I have seen random pottery shards along the hiking paths over the last few months and some odd tulips placements in the woods. 2 of the spots were total busts, but 1 provided some relatively modern relics and the other is turning out to be a productive colonial era spot.

Good stuff first...

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Handful of buttons with 6 of them being tombac. One is has a silver wash and a design.
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A couple of these saddle adornments, not sure of the era for these but they were mixed in the area with the tombacs.
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Some random old stuff, fishing weight is cool.
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Luggage tag, this guy lived down the old dirt road a mile or so 100 +/- years ago.

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And some old British Colonial coins. We think the nickel sized coin might be my first farthing, maybe Hibernia. The 1747 KG2 I believe is counter stamped with a “C”? Can anyone shed light on this? The other copper is thicker, almost thought it was an early LC, but rang up a 21 on the Nox so most likely another wiped KG.

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Some of the newer stuff from the other hunch site.
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The token was ID’d by DC Matt as a Pennsylvania Railways Token, potentially from their safety fair at the turn of the century.
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Good luck out there!
 

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Wow!!!! Nice!! Congrats!!
 

Very nice mix of finds. Congrats!
 

Excellent finds
 

Nice finds and research Thad.

I was wondering were you fellas went. The group chat went silent lol. I figured you were finding some stuff.

Best of luck out there. I just started getting back out this week. Got out Sunday and yesterday.

Jer

Jer
 

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