Easter Weekend Digs - Rare Cricket Buckle!

[Steve in PA]

I was able to hit a couple spots over the Easter weekend and dug a few coins and relics. I guess the most exciting thing, as I came to find out, was this:

Turns out it is the center piece to a circa 1860-1865 cricket buckle. It has three bats, two balls, a wicket, a tent with a flag, and a tree on it. There is even a book on cricket buckles and this one is on pages 85 and 86. What it was doing in rural Somerset County PA, basically the middle of nowhere, is anybody’s guess. Apparently the guy was so attached to this buckle, that he drilled four mounting holes in it so he could keep using it after the keeper broke off.

Here is a link to the cricket buckle book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwENP4lMSuvCM2tFQ0RHVWJ1N1U/view

Here is the cellar hole where the cricket buckle was found


Other notable finds were a gunpowder flask top and a nice gold gilded sash buckle.


Coins included several Indian head pennies and two silver dimes found a couple feet from each other.


Here are the rest of the finds that I brought home with me.


Thanks for looking and happy hunting to all.

 

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[rastinirv]

It's astonishing and kind of wonderful that there exists a 928-page document relating to dug cricket buckles. Great finds!

 

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[dirtdigginfool]

Steve, man it is great to see you got and and had a PHENOMENAL hunt! You said your back was feeling better, but you had not put it to the test yet this year, so here's hoping that it and you are both doing well, I would hate to see you overdo it and be sore.. Congrats on an excellent trip, here's to many more! Ddf

 

[Steve in PA]

I hope that the jolly ol' limey who wore that was able to find someone to play cricket with him here in the New World. Nobody has given a damn a bout cricket around here for a very long time.

I was also wondering who he played with. I was told that the buckle dates to the 1860s, and I guess cricket was somewhat popular before baseball took over.

It's astonishing and kind of wonderful that there exists a 928-page document relating to dug cricket buckles. Great finds!

I was also surprised that there is a 928 page book on cricket buckles. Some of them can bring big bucks.

Steve, man it is great to see you got and and had a PHENOMENAL hunt! You said your back was feeling better, but you had not put it to the test yet this year, so here's hoping that it and you are both doing well, I would hate to see you overdo it and be sore.. Congrats on an excellent trip, here's to many more! Ddf

Thanks for the well wishes DDF, but my back is fine. You must have me confused with another Steve.

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks Thad. Actually I found two IHPs on Saturday and two on Sunday. The area where I dug the two rosies has given up seated, barber, mercs, and rosies.


Thanks Cru, that is nice one you dug. I was surprised how many different variants of these cricket buckles were made. Have you found many others? I found another one on a Civil War site, but it was just fragments.

Had time to look.

(Sorry forgot the macro function! But you get the idea)

 

[HighVDI]

Great finds, Steve! Congratulations

 

[johnnyblaze]

Very cool buckle Steve i also wonder how it got out there..Cool to ponder that stuff..Never seen or heard of one before..

~Blaze~

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Yes, sorry I was confused with Jeff of Pa...again, congrats on your great hunt. Ddf