first finds for the fall

[ironhorse]

Getting back to some serious detecting this fall has been high on a list of priorities for some time now. I got back to an old favourite site with Iron Patch yesterday, we had mixed results with fair conditions, I was hoping for more finds but the former potato field was still hilly and full of vegetation, could have been better, but still good to get back. We checked an adjacent field that supposedly held a Loyalist site, we agreed it was perhaps at the end of that era but not much after, still Georgian we continued to hunt with a few finds, but nothing of great importance came out. We also continued some scouting some fields with no real results.
Although our finds weren't spectacular we did have an enjoyable day and hope to have many more before our season ends. My finds of the day were typical of our sites, a few buttons, a couple of old worn out coppers, a couple of nitnoids ,mine included a piece of musket brass and a flint that I eyeballed. My favourite find of the day was nice old brooch that had a hunting motif.
One side had a clear stone with a carved fox?, and the other had a similar design carved in a black stone( a fox or perhaps a hound) unfortunately it was damaged. All in all, it was a great kickoff, and the rest of the season should be just as interesting.

First pic shows the days haul(less the garbage of course) the days heartstopper was a modern silver found on the colonial site, I thought that I was on the old silver board until I saw that it wasn't from the 1700's or 1800's, I guess you can't have it all, all of the time.

Next pics are of the brooch

 

[Bramblefind]

Looks good to me - that brooch is fantastic!

 

[Iron Patch]

It will get better and I told myself I will not post finds again until I have something very worthy! I just hope it happens by freeze-up.

I still don't know why there is an engraved? image on the back of that brooch thing. Almost seems like a failed wax seal made into something else. I'm curious to know what it is, see another example, and how it was used/worn.

Wednesday was definitely a better choice than today, takes me a full 24 to recover!

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Very cool broach.
Flint probably scarce in Dirtyville.

 

[ironhorse]

Very cool broach.
Flint probably scarce in Dirtyville.

not sure of the rarity of flint in these parts, but I've found several gunflints over the years, they show up from time to time in our oldest sites

 

[underdogger]

Is east dirtville near east Bum? lol. Nice digs guys I hope with all this rain the good stuff starts to come to light . Not that those finds are any slim pickings great stuff Rob

 

[ironhorse]

Is east dirtville near east Bum? lol. Nice digs guys I hope with all this rain the good stuff starts to come to light . Not that those finds are any slim pickings great stuff Rob

I once heard someone say it was the "arsehole of the universe", closer to the armpit if you ask me

others have said it was in the middle of nowhere.....actually it's a couple hours drive past the edge of nowhere

 

[CRUSADER]

Looks like a double sided seal to me

 

[Woodland Detectors]

So all those buttons were an Ok day eh?


Nice assortment there.


Looks like a piece of British flint there too eh?

Again fine day

 

[The Patriot]

Nice to see your finally out digging again IH...you were due!
Some nice targets there, just enough to satisfy your itch...also thought that hound brooch was a wax seal when I first saw it...almost made into a brooch cool find none the less

 

[mainer]

Nice digs. That Brooch is awsome.

 

[Hunthicks]

That brooch is pretty sweet, and I'll take any silver most days!!! Nice!

 

[Iron Patch]

That brooch is pretty sweet, and I'll take any silver most days!!! Nice!

But will you take us to get silver next week?

 

[ironhorse]

the more I look at it, the more I'm tending to agree with Crusader and say it's a double sided seal
in fact IP did say that very thing when he saw it for the first time as well

if you notice there's a hole at either end, like it was hung in a 'hanger' of some sort, I've noticed a couple of similar finds recently which made me think brooch, one had a pictureframe too anyways that was cool too

either way it's a nice addition to my collection

 

[romeo-1]

Nice finds IH...what was the musket brass?

 

[Hunthicks]

That brooch is pretty sweet, and I'll take any silver most days!!! Nice!

But will you take us to get silver next week?

Sure will try!

 

[Iron Patch]

That brooch is pretty sweet, and I'll take any silver most days!!! Nice!

But will you take us to get silver next week?

Sure will try!

I don't care about the silver (I lie) , my 2nd American is very ugly... I need an upgrade!

 

[ironhorse]

Nice finds IH...what was the musket brass?

just that frag of a buttplate at the top of the pic, it's at a weird angle

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

I.P. is worried about the freeze up. So are we. If it doesn't stop raining soon they will never harvest the fields until much later. That sucks.
Chris

 

[deanv63]

sweet recovery.