YumaMarc
Sr. Member
- Dec 12, 2004
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- Detector(s) used
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White's MXT
Minelab Quattro
Fisher F2
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
My wife and I recently acquired a fairly large piece of land on a mountain above Ojojona, Honduras. On this property is the remains of an old house, actually just the foundations and evidence of habitation. How old it is, nobody knows, but our relatives knew the last people who lived there. It was last abandoned around 1980s or so, but was inhabited by others for generations before.
I took the opportunity to give my metal detector a shot on the old foundations, where I could get to the ground between all the recently chopped brush covering everything. I didn't find anything spectacular, but I put in about an hour and only in those spots I could poke through the brush, and before we were hit with the daily afternoon thunderstorm. I hope to go back this week and rake off all the brush so I can give it an honest try next time.
I did manage to find a few things, even under the adverse conditions. A number of old rusted pieces of iron, banding, sheet as if from barrels, an old blue enamelware pot lid, a brass padlock, and an old brass military buckle bottom which said "Made in US".
The photos show a couple old buttons, one a mother of pearl, one gold plated (or gold colored) and nearly smashed, a 1989 five centavos piece found on the entrance trail, a well-encrusted one centavo piece from 1957, and a tiny metal round can that once held some kind of salve or medicine. The best find of this short hunt was a medallion with the likeness of Colonel Oswaldo Lopez Arellano. Arellano is an interesting figure in Honduran history. He led two successful military coups against the government and positioned himself as president, actually military dictator, twice. In the end he was ousted in another coup led by his erstwhile partners who brought him to power.
Circumstantial evidence can date the medallion to 1963-1964. Arellano was not popular enough politically and publicly to warrant a medallion until after the coup of 1963, yet it shows him as being a "Coronel", thus it was struck before he was made president and before he promoted himself to general. My guess would be 1963, for his ego would not allow him to be called a lesser title.
I took the opportunity to give my metal detector a shot on the old foundations, where I could get to the ground between all the recently chopped brush covering everything. I didn't find anything spectacular, but I put in about an hour and only in those spots I could poke through the brush, and before we were hit with the daily afternoon thunderstorm. I hope to go back this week and rake off all the brush so I can give it an honest try next time.
I did manage to find a few things, even under the adverse conditions. A number of old rusted pieces of iron, banding, sheet as if from barrels, an old blue enamelware pot lid, a brass padlock, and an old brass military buckle bottom which said "Made in US".
The photos show a couple old buttons, one a mother of pearl, one gold plated (or gold colored) and nearly smashed, a 1989 five centavos piece found on the entrance trail, a well-encrusted one centavo piece from 1957, and a tiny metal round can that once held some kind of salve or medicine. The best find of this short hunt was a medallion with the likeness of Colonel Oswaldo Lopez Arellano. Arellano is an interesting figure in Honduran history. He led two successful military coups against the government and positioned himself as president, actually military dictator, twice. In the end he was ousted in another coup led by his erstwhile partners who brought him to power.
Circumstantial evidence can date the medallion to 1963-1964. Arellano was not popular enough politically and publicly to warrant a medallion until after the coup of 1963, yet it shows him as being a "Coronel", thus it was struck before he was made president and before he promoted himself to general. My guess would be 1963, for his ego would not allow him to be called a lesser title.
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