MisterHelix
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I only collect items from my own farm to build a mental picture of the human activity here over time.
My farm is the back corner if an old central Virginia estate, dating back to the 1750’s, but seems to have seen a lot of activity in the mid to late 1800’s through 1915-ish, then it’s pretty quiet except for some enthusiastic deer hunters in the eighties. Subdivided in the nineties, There were no houses within a half mile until the sixties. Our place was built in the late 2000’s.
Anyway, with that as context, here are some of the items I have found.
I will start today with a few plow points, as they’re called, that I dug out of the deep soil down here in the clearing near the house and road.
I have learned that these are from a “left handed turning plow” or a “walking or sulky plow” and though I have asked around a bit, I still don’t have an idea of the kind of plow(s) specifically, they were for.
If you know how I can know, let me know.
“Syracuse 503 C 363 1368”
“10”
Anyway, those are the plow points. There’s more big iron out there I just have to decide what to dig.
And shotgun stamps, as they’re called I guess. The brass ends of paper shotgun shells. Apparently rabbit and Turkey hunting was big here until the sixties, then whitetail deer became more common, or so I’m told. Anyway, lots of nice stamps, easily dateable, most from 1890-1915 or so.
one more and I’ll have fifty of the things.
More exciting rusty bits of fencing to come, haha. I have a few axes and whatnot that need to be cleaned up and photographed.
My farm is the back corner if an old central Virginia estate, dating back to the 1750’s, but seems to have seen a lot of activity in the mid to late 1800’s through 1915-ish, then it’s pretty quiet except for some enthusiastic deer hunters in the eighties. Subdivided in the nineties, There were no houses within a half mile until the sixties. Our place was built in the late 2000’s.
Anyway, with that as context, here are some of the items I have found.
I will start today with a few plow points, as they’re called, that I dug out of the deep soil down here in the clearing near the house and road.
I have learned that these are from a “left handed turning plow” or a “walking or sulky plow” and though I have asked around a bit, I still don’t have an idea of the kind of plow(s) specifically, they were for.
If you know how I can know, let me know.
“Syracuse 503 C 363 1368”
“10”
Anyway, those are the plow points. There’s more big iron out there I just have to decide what to dig.
And shotgun stamps, as they’re called I guess. The brass ends of paper shotgun shells. Apparently rabbit and Turkey hunting was big here until the sixties, then whitetail deer became more common, or so I’m told. Anyway, lots of nice stamps, easily dateable, most from 1890-1915 or so.
one more and I’ll have fifty of the things.
More exciting rusty bits of fencing to come, haha. I have a few axes and whatnot that need to be cleaned up and photographed.
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