Colonial settlers were blazing it! 420 pipestems and more from the pits with Isaac!

[Pacivilwarluke]

Wow what a day today in the colonial pits in SC! First a thank you to Bill D. For urging me to use a sifter! It helped immensely! Ended up with exactly 420 pipestems and bowls! Also tons of pottery, hammer, hoe, hand iron, and Isaac got a half of a Georgian wig curler! I also got a very old bottle top, some musketballs, crystal/ glass goblet, dad got 6 buttons a escutcheon plate, some saddle parts etc. we had a blast and we are really tired now, dug for about 5 hours! HH!

 

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[Pacivilwarluke]

420? Pipes? Blazing it?
Too funny...... I hereby nominate you for caption of the day.....lol. Good digs.

As soon as my buddy and I finsihed counting them at home we just looked at each other and busted up laughing. Too perfect ����

 

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[flatbutton]

DANG! makes me want to go back to the site where this stuff came from and screen it!

 

[sutphin]

UNREAL COLONIAL FINDS YOU HAVE THERE FROM THE BUTTONS TO THE PIPE STEMS AND WIG CURLER AND THE HOE AND SAD IRON SEEMS LIKE YOU HAD A GOOD DAY LUKE. NICE BUNCH OF RELICS AND CANT GET OVER ALL THE PIPE STEMS.

 

[Pacivilwarluke]

DANG! makes me want to go back to the site where this stuff came from and screen it! View attachment 1198265 View attachment 1198266

Um wow, that's some big iron bottls top is nice!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Thank you! Yes, 1750s to 1820s, and there was a tavern somewhere that I'm thinking I may have found finally! I'm know here near done, there are many other pits I haven't even dug out, but I'm heading home to PA so they'll have to wait for my college break in December. Woods will be better then too! I love the combed slipware, although I wish everything wasn't so smashed. I supposed beggar can't be choosers! I'm still stoked to have a cool site down here, and I'm thinking I will be able to get well over 500 next time I'm down. Every bucket seemed to have 10 in it!

Luke - by the way, I wrote a detailed article in one of the detecting magazines a couple years ago about colonial clay pipes. If you're interested in a pdf copy, shoot me a PM with your email and I'll make sure you get it.

 

[46Wheat]

That looks like a fun day