Eastern Ontario Hunt – Military Button & 1850 Halfpenny

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I met up with my buddy pepperj on Thursday for a hunt in Eastern Ontario. He has a great relationship with the local farmers, probably because he farms as well. He got us permission for a site that had an old school, a blacksmith shop and as we later discovered a much earlier building not identified on the late 19thc map. The old school was located on a high outcrop of rocks, unfortunately a bunch of modern trash had been dumped there after the school was demolished in the 1950s.

We decided to concentrate our efforts on land to the west of the school, this is where we found evidence of a much earlier structure. It was here that my buddy pepperj found the ‘Flower’ button and to both of our surprise a ‘Royal Montreal Cavalry’ button! I did some online research but found no information on the history of this button. Based on its two-piece construction, I’m thinking it dates to the 1850s, the civilian ‘Star’ button would be of similar vintage. I found the remains of a ladies wristwatch, a horse harness bell and an 1854 Upper Canada Halfpenny Token. I also found a modern novelty token from Toronto; it never ceases to amaze me what turns up at these old sites.

While detecting I noticed a very old wind powered water pump half buried in the ground, so I decided to take a pic of the old water trough and the concrete base of the well where the windmill had originally stood. Note the old horseshoe cast into the concrete used as a handle and the iron rings on the edge of the tough to tie up the horses for watering. A herd of ‘young girls’ came over to investigate what we were finding, but they weren’t impressed so they wandered away to talk to a bull in the next field.
Thanks again to my very generous friend pepperj for sharing his site permission with me.

Thanks very much for looking,
Dave

 

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