Old Home Sites x 2, Railroad Station Site & 1924 School Site

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I met up with pepperj on Thursday for a hunt at a couple of his site permissions. We haven’t detected these sites since the spring and have been anxiously waiting for the crops to come off the fields. The first site we hit was a now long gone home site, where I found the early ball button. We then traveled down the road to the site where the old railway station once stood; this is where I found the horse bell and a lead mailbag seal. The lead seal reads, "Canada ER Custom". The 'ER' is for the King / Royal Mail Canada. The next site was a new permission pepperj had just received. According to the farmer, “there used to be an old wooden framed house here and that, it had bulldozed into the creek 30 years ago”. Well, we found the remains of the house, which is now just a pile of lumber at the bottom of a hill near the creek. I found the brass horse buckle and a bone handled knife here, pepperj found a couple of cool looking lead soldiers!

In the pictures, you can see pepperj digging a target at the station site and the farmer arriving to remove the remaining beans from the field where the wood framed house once stood. The 1924 school site I detected on Friday morning and all I got for my efforts was a 1940’s penny spill and $2+ in change!

It was a long 7hrs of detecting, we even made friends with one of the locals who it turns out had grown up in the same area of Toronto as I did. He then gave us permission to detect his property the next time we were in the area. Thanks again for the invite buddy and thank you for the yummy homemade apple butter!

I took the picture of the lit Christmas tree in downtown Kingston, ON Thursday night, after a couple of beers, I thought it looked pretty cool!

Thanks for looking,
Dave

 

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[Carolina Tom]

Nice set of finds you got there Anti. Once again, I see a bell in the mix!

Sounds like you and PJ had an awesome time. Best of luck to the both of you!

 

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