No, I'm not talking about rocks. I posted another thread about an 18th century gold ring. At the same, very old site, we recovered some old musket balls, some buck loads, a flattened aluminum pot (lots of fun there), a huge dandy button, it has something on it (please be a GW!), more buttons, misc. oddball things, an extremely early flat (sad Iron), an 18th century hand forged rat tailed file AND three old brass buckles. One is a non-descript rectangular brass horsie buckle. One is a 17th century shoe buckle, it is twisted in a circle and part is missing, however with careful annealing, I should be able to straighten it out. Besides the ancient gold ring in the other post, I dug one of the deepest (small) good targets I have ever found. Pictured is a 17th century shoe buckle and it is totally COMPLETE and functional. The Deus found it. It read a solid, repeatable 83 with vdi. The soil has just thawed out. And this thing was DEEP. It was not flat, it was kind of half sideways in the hole, but not on edge either. I had to take another dig at it to get it out. I couldn't believe it was as deep as it was in a heaving iron infested trash area. I put my Garrett pinpointer in the hole at the depth it came from. It was 9" down. This is my first 17th century buckle with all the pieces intact. Most I have seen have the iron innards, but this one is hand made from brass, was in the lawn of the great house and was never subject to plow or fertilizer. Please use the zoom feature to see all the details on this.
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