Found my first coin, .......coins!

[rc2125]

Spent a few hours today at an old farmhouse/site and also in the "back yard".

Found alot of misc stuff/junk ......(the copper pointed thing?....from farm. Flag post top/bottom?)

.....25 gallon water/pressure tank

.....thought this was gonna be an easy digging outhouse pit:

until I dug and found concrete bottom:

Not sure what this was? Lots of iron scrap metal in/around it though.

Found my first COIN a wheat penny....

Much better than a square nail!








Then, several more.....

Oldest few were 1935, then 1940,44,45

 

[scrapdoggie]

No idea what the copper thingy is but....Nice pocket spill ya got there.Must be a lil more there somewhere.

 

[vayank54]

A good start for sure. How long is the brass piece? Does it have a nail or screw hole in the side toward the top? I'm not sure what it is. It looks kind of sharp to be the bottom of a flag pole but I wouldn't count that out as a possiblity.

 

[mlayers]

You sure the brass thinging is not copper, It looks like part of a lighting rod that they used to put on top of the old houses and barns.....Matt

 

[rc2125]

The pointed thing is copper for sure. Didn't think about the lightning rod possibility. There were two iron things found near it, some sort of two bolt/screw wire clamps, that would hint toward a lightning rod wire/grid connectors.

The pennies were found a few steps outside were the front door would have been, just off to the side of the sunken pathway, headed toward the front yard gate. Almost need a sniper type coil to hunt through all the mixed signals....

 

[yankee2500]

The pointed copper item is part of a lightening rod system for sure, there would be several on the roof connected to a braided copper line that ran to the ground. Most old farm houses and barns had them.

John

 

[burglarifyoulike]

looks like you had alot of fun, and alot of hard work!