incajoe
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What a great day to go out detecting yesterday! This weather has given us in the northeast a nice jump on the season.
Yesterday my father and I decided to head out into the woods to search for a home site that I had researched over the winter months. It was about a half mile walk from the nearest road and we were able to find it with no problem. Looks like it was a pretty big farm at one time with a lot of cleared fields and stone walls. We immediately noticed a really cool arched stone cold cellar right next to the house foundation. (That's my father standing in front of it in the pics.) You don't see too many of these and we thought it was really amazing that it was still standing after all these years. The area was very difficult to hunt due to the abundance of prickers and brush but it wasn't 5 minutes into the hunt when I got my first flat button which I took to be a good sign. Several more followed and the large silver plated one really gave me a start when it first came out of the hole. I really thought I had found my first colonial silver coin. Several hours of searching revealed not too much else so I returned to the area that I got the buttons and ended up finding one lone coin, a Woods Hibernia copper circa 1723. It's not in the greatest condition but at least there was enough to identify it. The last find was the bicycle suspender clip. This was odd since it dates to around 1900 and nothing else we found was that late. Anyone ever seen one before? The Silver Top Chewing Gum tin came from another site we hit on the way there. Enjoy the pics!
PS. What's the deal with this cedar tree photographed below? Why would someone make all those axe cuts in it? It was definitely done a long time ago....
Yesterday my father and I decided to head out into the woods to search for a home site that I had researched over the winter months. It was about a half mile walk from the nearest road and we were able to find it with no problem. Looks like it was a pretty big farm at one time with a lot of cleared fields and stone walls. We immediately noticed a really cool arched stone cold cellar right next to the house foundation. (That's my father standing in front of it in the pics.) You don't see too many of these and we thought it was really amazing that it was still standing after all these years. The area was very difficult to hunt due to the abundance of prickers and brush but it wasn't 5 minutes into the hunt when I got my first flat button which I took to be a good sign. Several more followed and the large silver plated one really gave me a start when it first came out of the hole. I really thought I had found my first colonial silver coin. Several hours of searching revealed not too much else so I returned to the area that I got the buttons and ended up finding one lone coin, a Woods Hibernia copper circa 1723. It's not in the greatest condition but at least there was enough to identify it. The last find was the bicycle suspender clip. This was odd since it dates to around 1900 and nothing else we found was that late. Anyone ever seen one before? The Silver Top Chewing Gum tin came from another site we hit on the way there. Enjoy the pics!
PS. What's the deal with this cedar tree photographed below? Why would someone make all those axe cuts in it? It was definitely done a long time ago....
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