Incredible 1550 - 1650 Vesica Rosette Buckle! Seal Matrix Etc.

[gwdigger]

Went hunting with the wife on the opposite end of a 1679 land patent where I'd recently dug the cut Pine tree Shilling. Not necessarily expecting much as the place is absolutely loaded with can slaw, I was knocked off my feet by my very 1st find. Retrieving the 85 Deus signal from some serious depth out pops this magnificent Vesica buckle. Whitehead #418 but this one blows the specimen in that book away. Never found even a piece of one of these before. I really am stunned by the way she cleaned up. I mean, dayum! I'm stoked. lol. My wife dug a seal matrix which shows "25". Quite a fantastic item itself. We also dug a small fist full of buttons, a few buckle pieces and I got a really old 17th century leather ornamental. Clearly this place can pop up something special so we'll work it more thoroughly this winter. Its a mucky mess right now with all the rain we've had. But easy digging. I also found a King William III halfpenny (SPENT!) & a couple indians, wheats and a buffalo nickel. Not bad digging these later era finds in between the really old stuff!

 

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[joeyfresh]

Great finds Gary especially the buckle and seal matrix. I've found a few examples of those buckles and they all match up exactly as if they came from the same mold. Maybe I'll see if Bill can bring one of his next time he and I meet up to see if his matches up exactly as well......lol we can really go down the path of nerd-land quickly around here!

Here are the two I've dug that look just like yours. I bet if you put yours against mine they would line up exactly

 

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[Bill D. (VA)]

Here are the two I've dug that look just like yours. I bet if you put yours against mine they would line up exactly

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Probably the same as with most of these too ....

 

[gwdigger]

Man, you guys get handfuls of em. lol

 

[trapperart]

Very nice finds congrats

 

[relic lover]

That's a really nice looking buckle. What was the exact use of that type of buckle?

 

[49r Relics]

Wow, the condition of that buckle! Huge congrats!

 

[gwdigger]

That's a really nice looking buckle. What was the exact use of that type of buckle?

Thats a good question. I'm not really sure. We find a lot of similar cast buckles in general and from the 17th century so I suppose they we're a sort of harness buckle?