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I detect a large area first settled by Puritans in the mid-1600's. Always an area with a sparse population and to this day never developed. It's wonderful in that I don't have to sort through trashy signals. I detect for five or six hour spells in beautiful woods covering a lot of hilly ground wishing my White's Spectra V3i would chirp. Often I don't ever see another human. But the finds are sparse. I came upon a forested area with quite a few square wrought iron rose nails, hefty spikes like this sample I found today (Merc is not associated, just for scale). No trace of a foundation so I imagining a barn structure to house livestock as this was primarily a wooded mixed pasture land with mediocre soils. I wish they had left more for me to find. But the truth is iron was essential for fastening, binding, and manipulating the wood their lives were built around. Nails were a form of colonial currency. All I can do is keep searching. The finds are revealing. Months ago in this general area I found a large oxen bell and with it the pieces of wrought iron yoke hardware buried together like a set. I've found their ax heads, horse shoes, cauldron fragments, and broken plow tips as well.
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