paleomaxx
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I was revisiting a site of mine that's about a half mile into the woods on an abandoned road. It had been well hit by many detectorists before I got there so not much around, but I figured I'd give it another shot. Targets were scarce and mostly just zinc bits so I was heading back along the road in the woods when I noticed a well about 100 feet away from the homesite along a rock wall. I swung around for a bit and found a few early buttons so I started a grid and late 1700's relics were all over the place. Then I noticed a 10' by 10' shallow depression in the ground not 15 feet from the road. It was a colonial foundation! I guess everyone was so focused on the known cellar hole that they never noticed this spot as they were walking by.
Right at the lip of the cellar hole I found this cufflink:
It's larger than most cufflinks I've found (the last photo is next to a more typical sized one) and it was so encrusted I didn't notice a design until I started cleaning it. It took quite awhile, but I managed to tease the image out and recognized it as an 18th century ship. I hadn't heard of ship cufflinks before, but I did find a few examples online and they seem to be quite uncommon. This has been a great year for cool cufflinks!
Near to the cufflink I got a terrible signal that I dug anyways just to get it out of the ground. I thought it was a chunk of iron at first, but I could see just a hint of design in the mud so I cleaned it when I got back home and found this:
A beautiful cast pewter knee buckle! This is only my third knee buckle and by far the most attractive. Still trying to figure out the best way to preserve the rusted remains of the workings. I don't want to remove them entirely, but they'll flake away to nothing if I don't soak it in glue or something similar. Fortunately the pewter is stable so I'm not to worried about that.
Only one coin turned up and the ground was not kind to it:
It's a KGIII half penny and non-regal judging by the weight, but that's about all I can get from it. I did find what I think is a token and it's quite intriguing. I'm really hoping someone on here recognizes it because I'm sure that it's old and I would love to find out more about it:
It's quite thin and what's interesting is you can see the toolmark from where the "S" was stamped into it, but not the "C." Any thoughts on it?
There were of course a bunch of buttons around. Nothing military, but some nicely designed ones:
This may be my new favorite tombac. The design is great and it's absolutely perfect with the shank fully intact. The dandy has an interesting floral pattern too.
Here's another odd piece. The front is silvered brass while the back is pewter filled. Too small to be a martingale heart, but possibly still an adornment for horse tack.
There were also a number of melted brass and copper pieces around including one huge honking blob of copper:
The piece on the ruler is the handle from a barrel tap and it's blistered like they were trying to recycle it but stopped before it fully melted. The hinge is blobbed towards the bottom, but they stopped before that fully melted too. Possibly a small charcoal fueled foundry?
Here's the rest of the haul from the site:
Nothing out of this world, but some great pieces and I love that everyone has been walking past it until now. I'll have to retrace my steps on some other old roads and see if there are similar spots still hiding!
Right at the lip of the cellar hole I found this cufflink:
It's larger than most cufflinks I've found (the last photo is next to a more typical sized one) and it was so encrusted I didn't notice a design until I started cleaning it. It took quite awhile, but I managed to tease the image out and recognized it as an 18th century ship. I hadn't heard of ship cufflinks before, but I did find a few examples online and they seem to be quite uncommon. This has been a great year for cool cufflinks!
Near to the cufflink I got a terrible signal that I dug anyways just to get it out of the ground. I thought it was a chunk of iron at first, but I could see just a hint of design in the mud so I cleaned it when I got back home and found this:
A beautiful cast pewter knee buckle! This is only my third knee buckle and by far the most attractive. Still trying to figure out the best way to preserve the rusted remains of the workings. I don't want to remove them entirely, but they'll flake away to nothing if I don't soak it in glue or something similar. Fortunately the pewter is stable so I'm not to worried about that.
Only one coin turned up and the ground was not kind to it:
It's a KGIII half penny and non-regal judging by the weight, but that's about all I can get from it. I did find what I think is a token and it's quite intriguing. I'm really hoping someone on here recognizes it because I'm sure that it's old and I would love to find out more about it:
It's quite thin and what's interesting is you can see the toolmark from where the "S" was stamped into it, but not the "C." Any thoughts on it?
There were of course a bunch of buttons around. Nothing military, but some nicely designed ones:
This may be my new favorite tombac. The design is great and it's absolutely perfect with the shank fully intact. The dandy has an interesting floral pattern too.
Here's another odd piece. The front is silvered brass while the back is pewter filled. Too small to be a martingale heart, but possibly still an adornment for horse tack.
There were also a number of melted brass and copper pieces around including one huge honking blob of copper:
The piece on the ruler is the handle from a barrel tap and it's blistered like they were trying to recycle it but stopped before it fully melted. The hinge is blobbed towards the bottom, but they stopped before that fully melted too. Possibly a small charcoal fueled foundry?
Here's the rest of the haul from the site:
Nothing out of this world, but some great pieces and I love that everyone has been walking past it until now. I'll have to retrace my steps on some other old roads and see if there are similar spots still hiding!
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