Finds from the 1810 Homestead

ANTIQUARIAN · Apr 30, 2011

The old homestead was originally located in the town of Columbus, Ontario. I say originally because it was torn down about three years ago to build a golf course on the property. Once again, we lose another irreplaceable building for the sake of building a golf course! >:(

Last week I screwed up the courage to ask the owner for permission to hunt the property and he said, "sure go right ahead". I hunted this site on Friday and this afternoon for a total of 6 hours. I could still see portions of the old foundation at the back and I remembered where the footprint of the old house stood. I could also tell that there had been soil added on top of the original soil, so I knew that I'd have to think "outside the box" as to where would be the most likely areas to make some finds.

I started by finding some modern coins; my earliest was a 1956 penny. I found a bunch of iron trash and a lot of square and rosehead nails. I ventured into the woods for a while and found more square nails, some old bottles (none were worth the effort to bring home) and the golfballs. I get the feeling that there's something good here, but I just haven't found it yet. On Friday I got my truck stuck in the soft shoulder and it cost me $180 to get it pulled back onto the road! :'(

The last picture is just to say thanks to a good friend for sending me one of the beautiful buttons he found . . . OK, he actually found 25 of them! :laughing7:

Thanks Herbie! :notworthy:

ANTIQUARIAN · May 3, 2011

tomharris76 said:
Yeah, don't give up on that place. Keep digging as long as you have permission. I know what you mean about good hunting places getting ruined. The parks department installed a frisbee golf course right through the heart of my favorite park. Every time I try to detect it now I have frisbees flying by my head.

I hear what you're saying about the Frisbees Tom! :icon_thumright:

All I can keep thinking about is . . . "if I spend much more time here I'm going to be getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, black flies & ticks soon! :laughing7:

Thanks very much,
Dave

desertfox · May 4, 2011

Hope you get back over there this weekend, Dave. Like you, I think that place has a lot more to give up and it's all got your name written all over them. I also hunt fast when hunting a new place then when I hit a few targets I go so slow I can watch the grass grow under my feet. Happy Hunting my friend.

Desertfox

ANTIQUARIAN · May 4, 2011

desertfox said:
Hope you get back over there this weekend, Dave. Like you, I think that place has a lot more to give up and it's all got your name written all over them. I also hunt fast when hunting a new place then when I hit a few targets I go so slow I can watch the grass grow under my feet. Happy Hunting my friend.

Desertfox

Hey Paul!

Thanks very much for your words of encouragement! :icon_thumright:

The weather's going to be nice here today with temps in the low 50's, so no bugs yet. I'll get onto the site again today for a few hours, but probably not this weekend. I have to fly to Houston to do a three day sales training for our reps there next week.

Hope you're getting out these days and finding some treasures!

Dave