Rusted_Iron
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- May 25, 2006
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- All Treasure Hunting
This weekend's finds
I took my Tesoro Tiger Shark out and hunted during a torrential downpour. I was in the woods so I didn't have to worry about making a mess of someone's lawn. I found my first V nickel today, a 1911, pretty corroded. I found 2 buckles, one of them is not metal (some kind of rubber or plastic), by the base of a very large old tree. The large tool or axe-like object was about a foot deep under some tree roots. I almost gave up digging.
The small rock-like object appears natural and might be some kind of metal-rich ore. It gave a very loud signal like a piece of silver. I would not expect to find a silver nugget in NJ, but this rock is not magnetite. It also doesn't look like lead. Whatever it is, it appears rounded as if by stream action.
The old horseshoe piece was under rocks in the soil. I would not care to repeat that digging episode. At least it's an old one (looks like square nails)
The .22 round is live, but the bullet is almost corroded away. It's an old one! Next to it is what appears to be a fired .22 bullet. The other 2 coins above the V nickel are a Jefferson (date unreadable) and a Memorial cent (date also unreadable). The area all this came from has had one use or another going all the way back into the mid 1700's.
Not shown: a mountain of pull tabs, foil, rusty nails, and pieces of wire. :P
Oh, also the light bulb screw threaded object is a very old fuse with a mica window. It has lettering on it but needs to be cleaned up so I can read it. The spoon is silver plated, mostly gone, over copper. The other iron object is a mystery. Piece of a bootscraper??
I took my Tesoro Tiger Shark out and hunted during a torrential downpour. I was in the woods so I didn't have to worry about making a mess of someone's lawn. I found my first V nickel today, a 1911, pretty corroded. I found 2 buckles, one of them is not metal (some kind of rubber or plastic), by the base of a very large old tree. The large tool or axe-like object was about a foot deep under some tree roots. I almost gave up digging.
The small rock-like object appears natural and might be some kind of metal-rich ore. It gave a very loud signal like a piece of silver. I would not expect to find a silver nugget in NJ, but this rock is not magnetite. It also doesn't look like lead. Whatever it is, it appears rounded as if by stream action.
The old horseshoe piece was under rocks in the soil. I would not care to repeat that digging episode. At least it's an old one (looks like square nails)
The .22 round is live, but the bullet is almost corroded away. It's an old one! Next to it is what appears to be a fired .22 bullet. The other 2 coins above the V nickel are a Jefferson (date unreadable) and a Memorial cent (date also unreadable). The area all this came from has had one use or another going all the way back into the mid 1700's.
Not shown: a mountain of pull tabs, foil, rusty nails, and pieces of wire. :P
Oh, also the light bulb screw threaded object is a very old fuse with a mica window. It has lettering on it but needs to be cleaned up so I can read it. The spoon is silver plated, mostly gone, over copper. The other iron object is a mystery. Piece of a bootscraper??
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