BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
I went out Solo again today. Last time I was near this site, I found a barn site in an adjoining field (dug a Large Cent there). I was still waiting for the beans to be cut on this spot--but today as I drove by--I saw that they were harvested.
Since I have standing permission from the kind farmer that owns this land, I checked in with him this afternoon and began swinging.
I got up on a little ridge expecting the house to be there--and I did find an iron patch. After a bunch of pieces of junk iron, broken tools, and a door hinge or two, I got a decent signal and was happy to see this:
It is a "Fatty" Indian Head Cent frozen in time.
I kept pounding the iron patch on the ridge with diminishing returns--and I kept thinking all the while "Where are the buttons?" "Where are the Suspender Clips?" "Harmonica Reed Plate, Anyone?" "Toe Taps?"
There wasn't even any broken brick or pottery. 
But there were rivets, horseshoes, and a bridle buckle. :P Yep. That's it. I'd just spent two hours and a half hunting yet another barn site. (That's fine by me--I've dug some great things at barns. I just wish they'd buried a little tag at each one of them that said "Barn was Here" so that I'd know...
)
So I stood on the ridge and looked around, turning slowly around until I'd gone the full 360 degrees. I decided to walk on downhill a little bit towards a spot near where what looked like a dry branch ran through. And as I walked in that direction, the iron got less...and less... until there wasn't any chatter from my machine.
And then lo and behold, the iron started getting thicker again! I started digging brass bits, melted lead, two round lead balls, pewter spoon pieces, an oil lantern top, and other items. I was back in business.
(Plus, there were tiny bits of broken brick and stoneware scattered around.) 8) I'd found the housesite.
I started to work this one hard--taking no prisoners. The sun was getting lower, and I wanted to get a darned good idea of what was there before dark. More bits of lead came up. Then I got a good signal and was stoked to see a .69 cal minieball come tumbling out of the hole.
BIG lead like that will Make Your Week--but the best was yet to come.
My next find was a rolled up piece of brass. Cleaning later revealed that the piece was a bayonet scabbard tip. It is a little over 2.5 inches in length, and it has two small nail holes at the larger end where the piece was secured to the leather scabbard. The finial is absent. (You can see this relic in the last photo in my post--to the left of the Indian Head Cent.)
I went on pick up what I thought was a newer button--until cleaning later revealed the backmark "BENEDICT & COE/EXTRA RICH" (1829-1834). I got two pieces of suspender clips--just another bit of confirmation that I was on the site of the house--and then I got one of those "deep, but good" signals. (Fellow 1266 users will understand what a brass beep sounds like on a larger object that is a foot down )
The fifth or sixth scoop of dirt revealed my prize find for the day--one of the keepers from a Snake Buckle!
Here's a photo of it after I got it home:
And a photo of one which sold online recently (http://www.horsesoldier.com/catalog/c0087.html). I posted the photo below, but on the website, the snake buckle is a little over halfway down on the page.
(Here's another link--a non-dug one, with original belt: http://southgeorgiarelic.org/snake.htm)
And here are the before/after photos. The IH is an 1862. If anyone has any idea what the mushroom shaped, flat, brass piece is in the top right of the first photo (bottom middle of the second photo), please help me out.
Best Wishes,
Buckleboy
I went out Solo again today. Last time I was near this site, I found a barn site in an adjoining field (dug a Large Cent there). I was still waiting for the beans to be cut on this spot--but today as I drove by--I saw that they were harvested.
Since I have standing permission from the kind farmer that owns this land, I checked in with him this afternoon and began swinging.
I got up on a little ridge expecting the house to be there--and I did find an iron patch. After a bunch of pieces of junk iron, broken tools, and a door hinge or two, I got a decent signal and was happy to see this:It is a "Fatty" Indian Head Cent frozen in time.
I kept pounding the iron patch on the ridge with diminishing returns--and I kept thinking all the while "Where are the buttons?" "Where are the Suspender Clips?" "Harmonica Reed Plate, Anyone?" "Toe Taps?"
There wasn't even any broken brick or pottery. But there were rivets, horseshoes, and a bridle buckle. :P Yep. That's it. I'd just spent two hours and a half hunting yet another barn site. (That's fine by me--I've dug some great things at barns. I just wish they'd buried a little tag at each one of them that said "Barn was Here" so that I'd know...
)So I stood on the ridge and looked around, turning slowly around until I'd gone the full 360 degrees. I decided to walk on downhill a little bit towards a spot near where what looked like a dry branch ran through. And as I walked in that direction, the iron got less...and less... until there wasn't any chatter from my machine.
And then lo and behold, the iron started getting thicker again! I started digging brass bits, melted lead, two round lead balls, pewter spoon pieces, an oil lantern top, and other items. I was back in business.
(Plus, there were tiny bits of broken brick and stoneware scattered around.) 8) I'd found the housesite. I started to work this one hard--taking no prisoners. The sun was getting lower, and I wanted to get a darned good idea of what was there before dark. More bits of lead came up. Then I got a good signal and was stoked to see a .69 cal minieball come tumbling out of the hole.
BIG lead like that will Make Your Week--but the best was yet to come.
My next find was a rolled up piece of brass. Cleaning later revealed that the piece was a bayonet scabbard tip. It is a little over 2.5 inches in length, and it has two small nail holes at the larger end where the piece was secured to the leather scabbard. The finial is absent. (You can see this relic in the last photo in my post--to the left of the Indian Head Cent.)
I went on pick up what I thought was a newer button--until cleaning later revealed the backmark "BENEDICT & COE/EXTRA RICH" (1829-1834). I got two pieces of suspender clips--just another bit of confirmation that I was on the site of the house--and then I got one of those "deep, but good" signals. (Fellow 1266 users will understand what a brass beep sounds like on a larger object that is a foot down
) The fifth or sixth scoop of dirt revealed my prize find for the day--one of the keepers from a Snake Buckle!
Here's a photo of it after I got it home:
And a photo of one which sold online recently (http://www.horsesoldier.com/catalog/c0087.html). I posted the photo below, but on the website, the snake buckle is a little over halfway down on the page.
(Here's another link--a non-dug one, with original belt: http://southgeorgiarelic.org/snake.htm)
And here are the before/after photos. The IH is an 1862. If anyone has any idea what the mushroom shaped, flat, brass piece is in the top right of the first photo (bottom middle of the second photo), please help me out.
Best Wishes,
Buckleboy
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The belt keep is real nice, the .69 is a big piece of lead. I bet you can't wait to go back, good luck there.
Found SC palmetto tree button.Minnie balls ,musket balls,English shoe buckles
