TrpnBils
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- Western PA
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- CTX 3030
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
is it?
It would be a heck of a weird find for Western PA, but there were lots of enlisted men from my county so it's possible. I found this tonight just in front of a cellar hole that appears on an 1871 map (I believe it's older than that though, that's just the oldest map I have). I found a very nice 1854 large cent at the same cellar hole about 40 feet away a couple of months ago, which makes me believe the house was pre-civil war (the coin did not look like it had circulated for 20 years before being lost).
The home site is located next to a major creek and old bridge abutments that were in use in the 1870s. The "road" is and was basically just a wagon road width, and all of this is just woods right now.
It's thin like a sword would be, but I don't know how much thickness would be lost with the corrosion. Regardless, it's consistent width and thickness throughout.
It would be a heck of a weird find for Western PA, but there were lots of enlisted men from my county so it's possible. I found this tonight just in front of a cellar hole that appears on an 1871 map (I believe it's older than that though, that's just the oldest map I have). I found a very nice 1854 large cent at the same cellar hole about 40 feet away a couple of months ago, which makes me believe the house was pre-civil war (the coin did not look like it had circulated for 20 years before being lost).
The home site is located next to a major creek and old bridge abutments that were in use in the 1870s. The "road" is and was basically just a wagon road width, and all of this is just woods right now.
It's thin like a sword would be, but I don't know how much thickness would be lost with the corrosion. Regardless, it's consistent width and thickness throughout.
