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On Thursday afternoon I received an invitation to detect a friend’s house in Tamworth, ON.
Ian & Melanie's home dates to about 1890 and is absolutely beautiful! I was only able to detect the front yard for about an hour, as we had dinner plans. Unfortunately, the beautiful stone wall that sat in front of the house is now gone, it had to be removed as it was literally falling down and had become a safety risk to their kids. I took this c2015 picture from Google Maps... now all that remains of where the wall and trees sat is a pile of dirt sloping to the road.Sorry, there are no pics of 'finds from the dirt' this time, as I was moving fast. I was closely followed around by his two daughters ages 7 & 9 who anxiously awaited every find I made in their front yard. I found a clock winder key, a modern house key and 3 pennies, which I gave to them. I also found what I initially thought was a brass wedding band, but now I think it might be iron. I'm going to tumble it and present it to Ian & Mel at a later time.
My most interesting finds from here were the eyeball finds I made in the dirt along the cedar fence line of the property. I found an ink bottle, what I think is an old Listerine bottle, a small blown-glass pill bottle and a decorative serving spoon. The bottles cleaned up amazing and I'm thinking about tumbling the spoon this winter to remove the corrosion and rust. I'm thinking the bottles originally had paper labels glued on. Bottles almost always seem to come out of the ground with cracks from having been frozen with water in them. I found these mixed in with rocks by a fence, so I feel the secret to their surviving was good drainage. They also have an old chicken coop on the property and seem very interested to have me detect in that area for some reason. I'd like to get back here again in the fall.
Thanks very much to Ian and his lovely family for permitting me to detect their yard.
Dave
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That small skinny bottle is interesting!
