The Colonial Watering Hole still producing...weve got lead and brass!

[HomeGuardDan]

The Colonial Watering Hole still producing...we've got lead and brass!

Well I decided to take advantage of the right conditions today at the local watering hole. I am still working on one particular target and still not been able to get it to the surface yet. After an hour or so of work, I decided to leave it and go back to the surface finds.

I managed to find a few buttons(6 or 7), all from the 1700-1600s. I love the drilled shanks that I typically find there. I thought I had a regimental button with the big pewter one, looked like it was an 8 in the center, but too damaged to tell what was actually there.

As always, I managed a handful of musket balls and lead shot. It is amazing the various sizes/calibers that I find here and all are crude in molding (today I found samples from .70 to lead pellet).

Lead sheathing is consistently found here due to all the ship traffic and construction and each one (especially the large ones) blow the headphones off. I actually enjoy these as they too are quite crude and typically have square nail holes on them from attachment to wood. Imagine how many miles of ocean these might have lasted!

I always find a ton of nails here (so much iron to dig through) and they actually too are quite crude and cool from rose-heads to squares, nothing post 1800s here. One unique find I made today was the two 1700 cast iron stakes that were still attached to the wood. This came from the clay layer and was preserved nicely and had to either be part of the wharf or some other purpose. It is amazing how well clay will preserve items for 200-300 years!

No coins today, but they are still there and I will find them the next time...oh yes I will!

HH

Dan

 

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[46Wheat]

That's some pile of lead

 

[Old Dude]

Those buttons are great and I always enjoy old lead!

 

[HomeGuardDan]

That's some pile of lead

thanks man, I always seem to find plenty of lead at this site. The silver and copper has begun to slow down.

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Of course we normally hate finding them, but those nails are interesting being clenched and still in the wood. I can't imagine the time needed to make enough of them back in the day to build something.

And that's a nice pile of musket balls... with all the different sizes a lot of different muskets and their owners must have visited that site through the years.

Nice saves, Dan.

 

[HomeGuardDan]

Of course we normally hate finding them, but those nails are interesting being clenched and still in the wood. I can't imagine the time needed to make enough of them back in the day to build something.

And that's a nice pile of musket balls... with all the different sizes a lot of different muskets and their owners must have visited that site through the years.

Nice saves, Dan.

Thanks man.

During the rev war this was a resupply point, but now that so many other calibers are popping up, it is probably just dropped batches during trade (offloading). I have long suspected that a ship was scuttled here which is another theory. They are everywhere and in pockets by size typically.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Another nice assortment of goodies Dan. Although the coins didn't make an appearance, you definitely had a good day in the button and lead departments. And I love finding those rose heads with the flattened ends since they confirm you're on a 17th century site.

 

[Argentium]

Surprised me to see all that gold plating still left on the buttons - and the nails are cool too in the wood like that !

 

[BuckleBoy]

Man with great targets like those there is bound to be some great stuff mixed and still there to find

 

[HomeGuardDan]

Surprised me to see all that gold plating still left on the buttons - and the nails are cool too in the wood like that !

Its actually not gold plating. These are finds from the water and the conditions (depending on how/where found) can keep the oxidation process from occurring, meaning at times, items look like they did the day they were dropped.

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Great finds Dan! Its cool to see those buttons and lead come from the water with very little oxidation on them. My land found buttons have a thick patina, so your water found ones give me an idea of what they might have looked like when they were lost. I've been pulling a bunch of rose head nails with flattened tips out of a pit recently and just started to tumble them with some pea gravel. (too much of a pain to do electrolysis on a smaller nail) They are some of my favorite finds since they were hand forged and you can see all the hammer marks on them still. Your's with wood still attached are awesome!

 

[metalev4]

I like the buttons Dan. Nice work. That site keeps on giving