BuckleBoy
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Hi All,
I teamed up with Hill Billy today to go track down an old spot or two. (He ended up with the star find of the day, and I ended up with a lot of sun.) We got started early in the morning to beat the heat, and got permission for the first site fairly quickly. We were convinced we were on the right spot--a tall hill overlooking some pasture land. The property lines were correct, and there was a nice spring close by--but no house site!![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
We spent the morning hunting every flat and knoll in that pasture before deciding that the place had been bulldozed into a sinkhole on one side or another of the hill. (The sinkholes were like a jungle, choked with plants, vines, and trees ) There was iron on the hill, and not much of it. So we figured that since the soil was so rocky there, and the topsoil so shallow (2 inches or so), that it wouldn't take much bulldozing to clear most of the traces of an early house--and little for us to find in the way of brass to know that it was ever there. (Flat buttons would be the only brass items that could be found with any regularity in such a site.)
Our plan of beating the heat didn't exactly work, although we did find another site on the way out--and it is in soybeans right now, so it goes on the Fall hunting list.
So we went to an old standby--the site where I dug the Seated Half Dollar last year, and where HB found a nice "Goddard & Sons" bm. Eagle Button, the complete Gwynn & Campbell lock plate, and a nice spur. We hunted there for a while with the sun beating down, and HB dug a nice CW knapsack hook.
He also got a match to a suspender clip that he dug on a previous hunt there. Here is a photo of the pair:
I got a few bits--a lantern piece, a turn-knob, an organ reed, and some junk. We dug a good bit of iron hoping for a ram rod or gun barrel. The sweat was pouring off us--it looked like we'd dunked ourselves in the owner's pool.
When I got home, I slept for 16 hours and almost missed church.
I was rather pleased to dig what looks like a tin plate. I have found pieces of them before, but never a whole one. I'd appreciate a little help with the ID of the piece. Here it is cleaned up:
And here are all the rest of the finds:
Best Wishes,
Buckles
Hi All,
I teamed up with Hill Billy today to go track down an old spot or two. (He ended up with the star find of the day, and I ended up with a lot of sun.) We got started early in the morning to beat the heat, and got permission for the first site fairly quickly. We were convinced we were on the right spot--a tall hill overlooking some pasture land. The property lines were correct, and there was a nice spring close by--but no house site!
We spent the morning hunting every flat and knoll in that pasture before deciding that the place had been bulldozed into a sinkhole on one side or another of the hill. (The sinkholes were like a jungle, choked with plants, vines, and trees ) There was iron on the hill, and not much of it. So we figured that since the soil was so rocky there, and the topsoil so shallow (2 inches or so), that it wouldn't take much bulldozing to clear most of the traces of an early house--and little for us to find in the way of brass to know that it was ever there. (Flat buttons would be the only brass items that could be found with any regularity in such a site.) Our plan of beating the heat didn't exactly work, although we did find another site on the way out--and it is in soybeans right now, so it goes on the Fall hunting list.
So we went to an old standby--the site where I dug the Seated Half Dollar last year, and where HB found a nice "Goddard & Sons" bm. Eagle Button, the complete Gwynn & Campbell lock plate, and a nice spur. We hunted there for a while with the sun beating down, and HB dug a nice CW knapsack hook.
He also got a match to a suspender clip that he dug on a previous hunt there. Here is a photo of the pair:
I got a few bits--a lantern piece, a turn-knob, an organ reed, and some junk. We dug a good bit of iron hoping for a ram rod or gun barrel. The sweat was pouring off us--it looked like we'd dunked ourselves in the owner's pool.
When I got home, I slept for 16 hours and almost missed church.
I was rather pleased to dig what looks like a tin plate. I have found pieces of them before, but never a whole one. I'd appreciate a little help with the ID of the piece. Here it is cleaned up:
And here are all the rest of the finds:
Best Wishes,
Buckles
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Great finds, and it makes you wonder how in the world that ring got out there.
RR
