BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
The heat finally broke in Old Kentucky this week--so Rodeo Recon and I headed out to do some housesite hunting.
We stopped at a pasture where we'd knocked on the owner's door before...and they gave us permission--with the condition that we ask the person who had rented the pasture for their cattle. We have a great relationship with the rentor--he owns Acres and Acres of land, and we'd stopped by his house at least three times in the past (permission granted each time)--so we expected to get our "Yes."
Well--it took no time to get our permission squared away and get hunting.
We walked out into the pasture, and the GPS unit steered us away from the flat knoll we were heading toward and over toward a flat spot barely large enough for a double log cabin. As soon as we tuned in the machines, that sweet, Sweet sound of iron confirmed that we had us a spot. After house items (rather than barn ones) started coming up, we were relieved. Here's a photo of the place where we think the house sat (no trace of anything there now):
Further confirmation came when we started seeing old, crumbly mud brick in our holes:
After digging some big iron--including a cast iron stove leg, I got a nice flat button. Here it is in the clod:
I was happy to see this one--and even happier that it seemed to have a good bit of gold gilding left on it. I dropped it into my cotton ball jar and kept hunting with my Passion HIGH.
Pretty soon I'd found an early heel plate--which I was pleased with--as well as another flat button, a toe tap, and a brass wedding band. Rodeo Recon had racked-up on some flat buttons and pewter spoon pieces.
Here's the man swinging with his usual passion:
Rodeo got one flat button that we were Certain was a coin... :P Looked like a 2c piece to me! I might've been a little crazy for thinking that Two Center #3 for 2008 was right there in that clod. Danged coin-sized buttons.
So we kept pounding the site--hitting the fringe areas, taking breaks in the shade and watching the Red-Tailed Hawk watch us from the tree tops. It was a Beautiful day out.
Yet again it was proven today that digging the large iron out will help you find the goodies. I got a nice flat button out of the same hole I'd just dug a large cooking stove piece the size of my head from.
The best find for me came about midway through the hunt--I thought this was a curved handle off a copper pot when I first picked it up--but it is most likely a sword decoration--and I'll bet it's an old one to boot. If anyone has some information on its age, please send it our way!
So here is a photo of some of our finds, and photos of some of them cleaned-up..
The gold gilded button was actually a Scovills button (1827-1840). Aluminum Jelly and a little gentle cleaning and it shone like the sun:
And the great Eagle. We thought it was a cane topper originally--but the only thing that seemed odd about the cane topper idea was the hole underneath the eagle's beak. There is a hole in the top of the head, which goes into the cavity underneath, and then the mystery one underneath the beak.
But thanks to Golddiver's reply below--with the link imbedded--there is a very similar example from an 1812 saber decoration. 
And of course, the IRON:
(Quarter for size reference only)
Regards,
Buckleboy and the IRON BRIGADE
The heat finally broke in Old Kentucky this week--so Rodeo Recon and I headed out to do some housesite hunting.
We stopped at a pasture where we'd knocked on the owner's door before...and they gave us permission--with the condition that we ask the person who had rented the pasture for their cattle. We have a great relationship with the rentor--he owns Acres and Acres of land, and we'd stopped by his house at least three times in the past (permission granted each time)--so we expected to get our "Yes."
Well--it took no time to get our permission squared away and get hunting.
We walked out into the pasture, and the GPS unit steered us away from the flat knoll we were heading toward and over toward a flat spot barely large enough for a double log cabin. As soon as we tuned in the machines, that sweet, Sweet sound of iron confirmed that we had us a spot. After house items (rather than barn ones) started coming up, we were relieved. Here's a photo of the place where we think the house sat (no trace of anything there now):
Further confirmation came when we started seeing old, crumbly mud brick in our holes:
After digging some big iron--including a cast iron stove leg, I got a nice flat button. Here it is in the clod:
I was happy to see this one--and even happier that it seemed to have a good bit of gold gilding left on it. I dropped it into my cotton ball jar and kept hunting with my Passion HIGH.
Pretty soon I'd found an early heel plate--which I was pleased with--as well as another flat button, a toe tap, and a brass wedding band. Rodeo Recon had racked-up on some flat buttons and pewter spoon pieces.
Here's the man swinging with his usual passion:
Rodeo got one flat button that we were Certain was a coin... :P Looked like a 2c piece to me! I might've been a little crazy for thinking that Two Center #3 for 2008 was right there in that clod. Danged coin-sized buttons.
So we kept pounding the site--hitting the fringe areas, taking breaks in the shade and watching the Red-Tailed Hawk watch us from the tree tops. It was a Beautiful day out.
Yet again it was proven today that digging the large iron out will help you find the goodies. I got a nice flat button out of the same hole I'd just dug a large cooking stove piece the size of my head from.
The best find for me came about midway through the hunt--I thought this was a curved handle off a copper pot when I first picked it up--but it is most likely a sword decoration--and I'll bet it's an old one to boot. If anyone has some information on its age, please send it our way!
So here is a photo of some of our finds, and photos of some of them cleaned-up..
The gold gilded button was actually a Scovills button (1827-1840). Aluminum Jelly and a little gentle cleaning and it shone like the sun:
And the great Eagle. We thought it was a cane topper originally--but the only thing that seemed odd about the cane topper idea was the hole underneath the eagle's beak. There is a hole in the top of the head, which goes into the cavity underneath, and then the mystery one underneath the beak.
But thanks to Golddiver's reply below--with the link imbedded--there is a very similar example from an 1812 saber decoration. And of course, the IRON:
(Quarter for size reference only
)Regards,
Buckleboy and the IRON BRIGADE
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). Nice digs, HH Charlie
