First Time ever detecting, 1890 Brass Skeloton Key! Pictures!

westerntreasurehunter · Oct 25, 2010

So one of my friends had a couple detectors and asked if i wanted to come and detect an old 1890 home site. the house had been added onto in the fifties, but had been vacant for some time. Just recently the City decided to tear it down, so it seemed like the perfect place to go. He had found some wheat pennies before there, but nothing older than 1910. I didnt find anything really for the first hour, just some iron nuts and bolts and some frostie root beer cans. Then, after a few minutes in the front yard i found this Brass key, and judging that the house had been around since the late 1800s, and this might have been the house key, i would think it would be pretty old! Anyway, it was pretty exciting for a first hunt!