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Hello Friends, 
Decided to knock off work early today . . . being a long weekend and all!
Headed back to the property / park area that I found the gold signet ring at on Monday! 
Started out by digging the 1944 Penny, then a 1962 Penny, followed by the axe head. No makers marks on this piece, though it doesn't look that old to me? 
If any of you axe experts out there can help me date this piece, I'd greatly appreciate it! I found the glassware in the same hole as the '62 penny.
I was working along the "breakwall" of the lake and got a very strong high nonferrous signal about 2" down and out pops this 10K wedding band!
After digging up this beauty, I had to sit back and catch my breath! 
What are the chances of digging 2 gold rings on old home sites that sit next to each other?!
Thanks for looking and have a great long weekend everyone!
Dave
History of Bond Head, Ontario
The Lovekins and Bates arrived in Clarke Twp in 1797 - the first settlers - and lived in log houses. Robert Baldwin Sr, with son W.W. Baldwin and family arrived 2 years later and they also lived in a primitive house - maybe a fur trader or Indian shanty that had been sitting empty by the Lake shore. It had a bark roof and a chimney made of sticks and clay. One corner was closed off for the daughters who slept on boards on the floor. A few years later the Baldwins moved to Toronto.
Bond Head was the name given to the community beside Lake Ontario, while Newcastle Village was a mile & a half north, on the main road from Toronto to Kingston and Montreal. This road was first built in 1816 by a man named Danforth. It was a dirt road - a bush road -sometimes called the Danforth Road - sometimes called the "King's Highway" because it belonged to the King - and it ran from Toronto to "Kingstown." In more recent years the road became "Highway No.2" or "The Trans-Canada Highway," running 2326 K from Windsor, Ontario - at the border with Detroit, Michigan - to Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada's great port on the Atlantic Ocean. In the 1860's, a Bond Head schooner, partly owned by Capt Frank Gibson, of Bond Head, with a Bond Head crew, took a ship load of barrel staves from Newcastle to Quebec city. Bond Head was called Port Newcastle at that time, and local ships kept up a steady trade with Toronto, Kingston and American ports.
One of the first to arrive in Bond Head was a foundry man named Richard Vaughan who ran a small blacksmith shop that made parts for mills and plows and other simple farm machinery. He was joined in 1847 by Daniel Massey - and thus was started one of the most successful Farm-Machinery Manufacturing Businesses in the world. In later years the company was know as Massey-Harris or Massey-Ferguson and sold equipment around the world. One hundred and fifty years ago the Massey Company played a very important role in village family life. In the same fashion today, many people in Newcastle work for - or sell goods to people who work for - "The Motors" - the local name given to General Motors of Canada, in nearby Oshawa, where hundreds of men and women build cars and trucks.
Decided to knock off work early today . . . being a long weekend and all!
Headed back to the property / park area that I found the gold signet ring at on Monday! Started out by digging the 1944 Penny, then a 1962 Penny, followed by the axe head. No makers marks on this piece, though it doesn't look that old to me? If any of you axe experts out there can help me date this piece, I'd greatly appreciate it! I found the glassware in the same hole as the '62 penny.I was working along the "breakwall" of the lake and got a very strong high nonferrous signal about 2" down and out pops this 10K wedding band!
After digging up this beauty, I had to sit back and catch my breath! What are the chances of digging 2 gold rings on old home sites that sit next to each other?! Thanks for looking and have a great long weekend everyone!
Dave
History of Bond Head, Ontario
The Lovekins and Bates arrived in Clarke Twp in 1797 - the first settlers - and lived in log houses. Robert Baldwin Sr, with son W.W. Baldwin and family arrived 2 years later and they also lived in a primitive house - maybe a fur trader or Indian shanty that had been sitting empty by the Lake shore. It had a bark roof and a chimney made of sticks and clay. One corner was closed off for the daughters who slept on boards on the floor. A few years later the Baldwins moved to Toronto.
Bond Head was the name given to the community beside Lake Ontario, while Newcastle Village was a mile & a half north, on the main road from Toronto to Kingston and Montreal. This road was first built in 1816 by a man named Danforth. It was a dirt road - a bush road -sometimes called the Danforth Road - sometimes called the "King's Highway" because it belonged to the King - and it ran from Toronto to "Kingstown." In more recent years the road became "Highway No.2" or "The Trans-Canada Highway," running 2326 K from Windsor, Ontario - at the border with Detroit, Michigan - to Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada's great port on the Atlantic Ocean. In the 1860's, a Bond Head schooner, partly owned by Capt Frank Gibson, of Bond Head, with a Bond Head crew, took a ship load of barrel staves from Newcastle to Quebec city. Bond Head was called Port Newcastle at that time, and local ships kept up a steady trade with Toronto, Kingston and American ports.
One of the first to arrive in Bond Head was a foundry man named Richard Vaughan who ran a small blacksmith shop that made parts for mills and plows and other simple farm machinery. He was joined in 1847 by Daniel Massey - and thus was started one of the most successful Farm-Machinery Manufacturing Businesses in the world. In later years the company was know as Massey-Harris or Massey-Ferguson and sold equipment around the world. One hundred and fifty years ago the Massey Company played a very important role in village family life. In the same fashion today, many people in Newcastle work for - or sell goods to people who work for - "The Motors" - the local name given to General Motors of Canada, in nearby Oshawa, where hundreds of men and women build cars and trucks.
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Great post and very nice ring ! There just may be another one there for you ! keep us posted ! MaineRelic
