Mid 1800s house site continues to give it up (Updated with cleaned pics)

[Steve in PA]

Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up (Updated with cleaned pics)

I put in a good 4 hours today at a mid 1800s house site that I have been hunting off and on for 10 years or so. It is not quite colonial, but does give up some some 1820s material. However it's mostly mid to late 1800s stuff. There is a lot of iron masking the buttons and coins, so you have to go slow and dig iffy signals. I am getting pretty good at picking out the better signals between all the cracking and popping I hear on my F75. Today I got 10 buttons, 4 Indian Heads (1863, 1864, 1883, and 1893), 4 suspender buckles, and a nice clover heal plate. Here are some phone pics I took before I left. I may update the post with some cleaned pics tomorrow.

UPDATE 11-11-10: Cleaned the coins and relics today and added new pictures.

 

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[bootyhoundpa]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

good days worth of finds... will be nice when you start pulling the silver out from that era...good luck..

 

[KOOTNEY KID]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

Love the stuff you are finding there,keep it up ......................K.KID.

 

[allen]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

there is no telling what else will come out of that site !!

 

[umrgolf]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

Nice hunt Steve I like that heel plate Indians are good too Are you having trouble with chatter on your machine? PM me and I'll tell ya how to get rid of it.

 

[halfdime]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

It was a nice day for treasure hunting in the region; do you have to clear any brush, or is this a site you can just detect? You'll find some nice old silver there, I'll bet. Oh, and another thing; have you found a privy there?

 

[Steve in PA]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

It was a nice day for treasure hunting in the region; do you have to clear any brush, or is this a site you can just detect? You'll find some nice old silver there, I'll bet. Oh, and another thing; have you found a privy there?

This site is south of Pittsburgh. It is in a cow pasture and they have the grass chewed down to a putting green right now. The conditions are as good as they can get. There is just a pile of bricks and rocks where the house was. I have hunted this place at least 20 times with several detectors and it always gives something up. One thing it never gives up is silver. Three Large Cents, a flying eagle, and at least 10 indians, but no silver. The F75 has really opened the site up again in the last couple years, it is a great machine in trashy homesites. I probed some depressions today looking for the privy, but no luck. I have no idea how the house was oriented, but I know there would be great bottles in the privy. There is pottery and china in every hole, I even found a broken historical flask while digging a hole.

 

[DirtMan1]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

Dang, that heelplate looks small from the pic. Almost looks child's size? Congrats on the cool finds!

 

[halfdime]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

It was a nice day for treasure hunting in the region; do you have to clear any brush, or is this a site you can just detect? You'll find some nice old silver there, I'll bet. Oh, and another thing; have you found a privy there?

This site is south of Pittsburgh. It is in a cow pasture and they have the grass chewed down to a putting green right now. The conditions are as good as they can get. There is just a pile of bricks and rocks where the house was. I have hunted this place at least 20 times with several detectors and it always gives something up. One thing it never gives up is silver. Three Large Cents, a flying eagle, and at least 10 indians, but no silver. The F75 has really opened the site up again in the last couple years, it is a great machine in trashy homesites. I probed some depressions today looking for the privy, but no luck. I have no idea how the house was oriented, but I know there would be great bottles in the privy. There is pottery and china in every hole, I even found a broken historical flask while digging a hole.

No matter how the house was oriented, try looking northeast of the brick/rock pile. One suggestion; look on an old topographical map for the house. They often show roads leading to a property; that might give you some idea what was front and back. Prevailing winds here are generally from the west, so outhouse odor would already be away from the house and pushed even further by even the slightest breeze. Good luck!

 

[HISPAN]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

I would love to see those more closely Indians ..... but good hunting!
Greetings!

 

[Steve in PA]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

Dang, that heelplate looks small from the pic. Almost looks child's size? Congrats on the cool finds!

It is small, partly due to wear I think. I compared it to another that I found at an 1850's military post in Texas last year. It has the same size clover cut out, but the hole pattern is smaller than the one from Texas. But then, everything is bigger in Texas, even heel plates

 

[Mr Tuff]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

great finds!!! sweet IHs MR TUFF

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up

Great finds there Steve

 

[S IL THer]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up (Updated with cleaned pics)

I found a heel plate like yours today...except mine has a heart and has a "1 1/4" stamped (raised) on it

 

[Rickiowa2009]

Re: Mid 1800's house site continues to give it up (Updated with cleaned pics)

Interesting finds, Congratulations