nova treasure
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It was a Beautiful day here in Kentucky, So me and the gang headed for another possible wooded site that I located on the maps. We didn't take a detector with us, but was out for just some good ole family time and enjoying the Outdoors with hopes of finding the site.
We walked about a half mile back in the woods when we started seeing some natural signs of a old homesite and than coming up on a flat area, where we found alot of rock wall formations and after alittle more searching we found bricks and coal chunks, so I knew we found the chimney end of the house.
Without having a Metal detector, I thought the next best thing was to look around for a trash pit and lo and behold with checking a few areas by dragging some leaves and with some big help of the Beautiful sun shining today, we found glass pieces and pottery. So, with about another hour to spend the gang got busy dragging more leaves and limbs and started finding broken tops and more pottery that led to some pretty decent surface finds. The finds of the day going to my 16 yr old daughter with 2 complete bottles and me ending with a half.
her biggest bottle embossed reads: Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and than 14 1/2 ozs. on the shoulder of the bottle. Her other bottle is not embossed but I think it's alittle older, maybe mid to late 1800's. The half that i found is embossed : Rawleighs and with a green tint probably late 1800's.
If We would had a detector or even a shovel, I am sure the finds list would have been longer but my day out with the Family couldn't have been any bigger (unless the wife and oldest daughter would have came.)
Thanks For Reading, Nova Treasure
We walked about a half mile back in the woods when we started seeing some natural signs of a old homesite and than coming up on a flat area, where we found alot of rock wall formations and after alittle more searching we found bricks and coal chunks, so I knew we found the chimney end of the house.
Without having a Metal detector, I thought the next best thing was to look around for a trash pit and lo and behold with checking a few areas by dragging some leaves and with some big help of the Beautiful sun shining today, we found glass pieces and pottery. So, with about another hour to spend the gang got busy dragging more leaves and limbs and started finding broken tops and more pottery that led to some pretty decent surface finds. The finds of the day going to my 16 yr old daughter with 2 complete bottles and me ending with a half.
her biggest bottle embossed reads: Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and than 14 1/2 ozs. on the shoulder of the bottle. Her other bottle is not embossed but I think it's alittle older, maybe mid to late 1800's. The half that i found is embossed : Rawleighs and with a green tint probably late 1800's.
If We would had a detector or even a shovel, I am sure the finds list would have been longer but my day out with the Family couldn't have been any bigger (unless the wife and oldest daughter would have came.)
Thanks For Reading, Nova Treasure
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Seriously, nice bottle finds........you really need a detector out there!
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Glad to see y'all getting out together as a family and enjoying better weather. It looks like a wonderful site to go back to and really probe the area. I got to go to a nice spot with a stone stacked wall (not slave fence old) but eary 1900's around where the home stood. Partially wooded with some really old live oaks, pine trees, majestic palms and was a really neat looking site. Spoke with the lady at the neighboring property which has a beautiful humongous home. She said her mansion was built in 1925 by one of the New York Yankees players (can't recall which player) as they won the "World Series" that year!!! He wanted a warm winter home in St. Petersburg as it was becoming all the rage from the media. It was said that "Babe Ruth" was a regular at her home and pictures show him throwing baseball in that very backyard.
