North Tennesse Finds

[wildman4910]

I have been hunting an old home/one room school site.
I know approximately were the house was and believe I have located the old school house site.
Unfortunately I didn't have as much time to hunt as I wanted but had fun when I could.
Here is what I pulled outta the dirt~~

I believe this to be a old plum bob~~

Have no clue what this is, it's broke and corroded~~

Junk iron n beer cans I dug out~~

Quartz rock found in the creek between the 2 sites.~~

Strange rock found in the creek~~

I also found a bunch of old style wood anchors and nuts{forgot them in Tenn }, but have found very little other trash target's on the school site.
I have the area just about located, but ran out of time to hunt it further.
It also didn't help the ground was really dry and like cement.
Hopefully I'll have more time to hunt the next time I'm up that way.

Thanks for looking.
~~Happy Hunting~~

 

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[ridgehunter58]

That rock looks more like a Geode

 

[juju]

Your old plumb bob looks like the tip to an old soldering iron. Looks like a good hunt to me.

JuJu

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very cool finds there wildman4910!
Looks like the site holds a lot of secrets for you to discover.

For those of us that don't know what Geodes are:

Geodes are geological rock formations which occur in sedimentary and certain volcanic rocks. Geodes are essentially rock cavities or vugs with internal crystal formations or concentric banding. The exterior of the most common geodes is generally limestone or a related rock, while the interior contains quartz crystals and/or chalcedony deposits. Other geodes are completely filled with crystal, being solid all the way through. These types of geodes are called nodules.

Geodes can form in any cavity, but the term is usually reserved for more or less rounded formations in igneous and sedimentary rocks, while the more general term "vug" is applied to cavities in fissures and veins. They can form in gas bubbles in igneous rocks, such as vesicles in basaltic lavas, or as in the American Midwest, rounded cavities in sedimentary formations. After rock around the cavity hardens, dissolved silicates and/or carbonates are deposited on the inside surface. Over time, this slow feed of mineral constituents from groundwater or hydrothermal solutions allows crystals to form inside the hollow chamber. Bedrock containing geodes eventually weathers and decomposes, leaving them present at the surface if they are composed of resistant material such as quartz.

Most geodes contain clear quartz crystals, while others have purple amethyst crystals. Still others can have agate, chalcedony, or jasper banding or crystals such as calcite, dolomite, celestite, etc. There is no easy way of telling what the inside of a geode holds until it is cut open or broken apart. However, geodes from any one locality usually have a more restricted variety of interior mineralization.
Geodes and geode slices are sometimes dyed with artificial colors. Samples of geodes with unusual colors or highly unlikely formations have usually been synthetically altered.

Geodes are common in some formations in the United States (mainly in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, and Utah). They also are common in Brazil, Namibia, and Mexico.
Naturally formed Geodes:

 

[wildman4910]

Thanks, it was a lot of fun hitting an "old" site for once, and being the first to hit it with a beeper!

Juju, we were guessing either plum bob or a soldering iron tip.

The geode was whole, I smacked it another rock just for giggles and got a surprise so I kept it.

The original owner said the prop. had been in his family since the early 1800's, so I'm hope to pull some nice finds out of the dirt.

 

[Mike_of_Tenn]

Very cool finds! I am researching a little town here at the moment in middle TN. Maybe we could get together some time and hunt!
Anyways congrats on the finds and best of luck to you on your future ones!

Mike

 

[wildman4910]

I'm hoping to be able to get back up in the end of Nov., the weather was just perfect when I had to come back to FL.

I was really stoked, as most of the "old" sites in my neck o the woods in FL are built over.

 

[Syrena Hunter]

Great going...I love it when my md talks to me!