FIELD 1 - PIPELINE

[CRUSADER]

Some may remember the pipeline trenches we did, well they have now filled them in. Which means that the unsearched soil which was piled up is now spread back in the trench. So we can search this and under where the pile lay without distubing the crops.

Luck would have it we meet the farmer & she was happy for us to do three of the beaned fields as well

Whatsit:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,121972.0.html

2 Lead token
Victorian pewter medallion
Roman scrappy
Button
Halfpenny

Nice Medieval Buckle & casket key

It nice to have some old land to walk over again which increases the buzz factor.

 

[DCMatt]

Neat stuff, as usual.

But how does this stuff get in the middle of a farm field? I hunted a farm field near my dad's house in Pennsylvania. Houses in the area date from the mid 1700's. All I found were tractor and plow parts...

DCMatt (jealous in the US)

 

[tymcmurray]

Great finds.
Your whatsit was funny because I thought you would figure anything out.
It took something a little more modern to stump you.

 

[CRUSADER]

Neat stuff, as usual.

But how does this stuff get in the middle of a farm field?

In the sh*t

 

[bootybay]

well I just learned something new..a casket key you always find great stuff crusader... I just love your posts

 

[DCMatt]

Neat stuff, as usual.

But how does this stuff get in the middle of a farm field?

In the sh*t

Are you $h!ttin' me? I guess those Pennsylvania farmers are using the wrong kind of fertilizer. :P

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Good day, mate.

BDD...Kirk

 

[watercolor]

CRUSADER, when you said a lot the stuff you find "gets" out to the fields from the sh$t that's being spread makes PERFECT sense! (note light bulb going off in head) I never thought of that! I guess we'll have to check out some of "our" fields a bit more carefully.

Wonderful info, Thanks!
watercolor

 

[rayredditch]

Neat stuff, as usual.

But how does this stuff get in the middle of a farm field?

In the sh*t

Are you $h!ttin' me? I guess those Pennsylvania farmers are using the wrong kind of fertilizer. :P

Not New England

 

[Roger Mn.]

Nice finds crusader.Are you saying the farmers went into the barn to milk the cows,slipped in some cowpies,his coins,keys and other things fell in the manure.Come spring the farmer spreads the manure on the fields.Four hundred and some years later you find them metaldetecting?I thought they lost them things well working the fields.

 

[Merf]

Neat finds Crusader---Good hunt

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice finds crusader.Are you saying the farmers went into the barn to milk the cows,slipped in some cowpies,his coins,keys and other things fell in the manure.Come spring the farmer spreads the manure on the fields.Four hundred and some years later you find them metaldetecting?I thought they lost them things well working the fields.

Since Roman times people have cleared up rubbish (broken pots, sh*t, straw etc) from their villiage & stuck it in carts & dumped it on the fields.

In victorian times the night soilman came around & collected the sh*t from the towns people & paying them a small amount for it. This would be sold to the farmer & dumped on the fields. This is how alot of Victorian goodies got on the fields.

Poor farmer workers would not risk taking out money or other goods into the field. They may have had some smoking material & thats it.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Nice spectacle buckle and flint was that from the trench

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice spectacle buckle and flint was that from the trench

It was on the back fill of the trench