cheffer
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- Joined
- Sep 17, 2004
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- Location
- Western Mass
- 🥇 Banner finds
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- XP Deus, Fisher 1275 LTD, Fisher 1265, Fisher 1270, Tesoro Vaquero
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Mike, Joe and I returned to a deep woods site where I found a beauty of early American silver:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/583296-my-oldest-u-s-silver-today.html
After each of us doing some research on the area, the old maps and some history from the library confirm almost 100% that this site was the former location of an 18th century inn and tavern that may have operated up to around the Civil War. In addition to the 1809 dime, we've now found 4 coppers (pretty crusty, definitely two of them large cents but no date), plus a fatty Indian (also too far gone to date), and I managed to pull a nice 2 Reale out of a supremely trashy section:
It's a beautiful hilltop section of woods along an old carriage road studded with cellar holes, so we've got a lot of hours to spend really taking our time up there. The inn foundations feature a lot of old landscaping, shrubs and plantings that you don't normally see in the middle of the woods, all obviously gone way wild now. Ferns and vegetation at the site are waist-high, so, even though I love the summer, I cannot wait until the weather turns cold and some of this gets knocked down.
We'll keep posting, hopefully, as the ground gets easier to work. Research so far is paying off!
HH,
Steve
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/583296-my-oldest-u-s-silver-today.html
After each of us doing some research on the area, the old maps and some history from the library confirm almost 100% that this site was the former location of an 18th century inn and tavern that may have operated up to around the Civil War. In addition to the 1809 dime, we've now found 4 coppers (pretty crusty, definitely two of them large cents but no date), plus a fatty Indian (also too far gone to date), and I managed to pull a nice 2 Reale out of a supremely trashy section:
It's a beautiful hilltop section of woods along an old carriage road studded with cellar holes, so we've got a lot of hours to spend really taking our time up there. The inn foundations feature a lot of old landscaping, shrubs and plantings that you don't normally see in the middle of the woods, all obviously gone way wild now. Ferns and vegetation at the site are waist-high, so, even though I love the summer, I cannot wait until the weather turns cold and some of this gets knocked down.
We'll keep posting, hopefully, as the ground gets easier to work. Research so far is paying off!
HH,
Steve
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