Hammered 3-cent silver orament

[dognose]

I found this hammered perforated Silver Coin on a site in Marion County Indiana May 28 1990 in the Maywood Quadrangle T14N R3E Section 9, on the south side of Little Buck Creek.


The same day I found a red slate bannerstone preform, where the drilling had barely been started on one end and a very nice complete greenstone celt.


In the Midwest women's dresses were sometimes adorned with the hammered coins. Further west in the plains hair pipe breast ornaments and other clothing sometimes had these.


In the 1990's this field was planted turnips, which they would plant and harvest three times a season. This made for good hunting all summer. A housing development was built on this site about 2005.

 

[Jon Stewart]

OUSTANDING find

 

[arrow86]

Really cool find ..... Any chance of seeing the bannerstone and Celt?

 

[creekhunter]

Sad about the housing sites they are destroying history quickly.

 

[unclemac]

even sadder....what they do to good farm land is scrape all the good soil off (the soil with artifacts in it by the way), build the houses on the substrate and then sell the top soil back to the homeowner.

 

[creekhunter]

even sadder....what they do to good farm land is scrape all the good soil off (the soil with artifacts in it by the way), build the houses on the substrate and then sell the top soil back to the homeowner.

Bet the top soil guys have a nice collection

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Awesome find. I have seen a couple of those found in my area on historic sites. Very cool.

 

[NCPeaches]

Awesome find and thanks for sharing the knowledge, I never knew but will watch for that stuff now.

 

[dognose]

Here is a the bannerstone, drilling just started. Red slate is the material.