paleomaxx
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Obviously I had to go back to the field where I found the Vermont 1785 copper, and while I didn't find any more of those, it wasn't dull by any means. The weeds are still pretty high, so I can't canvas it perfectly, but I found quite a bit more and this really cool mechanism that has me stumped.
I'm now up to ten of those brass pins that I think are tack rivets for large wagon teams. There are two more standard brass leather rivets too. The two whole rings and one broken one are all brass and while it is possible that they're from contemporary halters, they were in the same layer as everything else and have some patina so they could be old too.
The mechanism is the weirdest piece though. I found it like it is in the first photo where it was folded together with the smaller pieces inside the large ring. And then inside the smaller circle of copper is the gears on the shaft and two small cut pieces of copper. Absolutely no writing or symbols of any kind. I'm open to any suggestions on it!
And last is what was probably a coin at one point but the ground was very rough on it. It looks a lot like the shadow of a bust on the front, but it could also be coincidental areas of corrosion. It's strange though, because the Vermont copper was covered in green patina, but both sides have great definition and not much copper was eaten away. I wonder why this coin was so badly degraded in the same soil?
I'm now up to ten of those brass pins that I think are tack rivets for large wagon teams. There are two more standard brass leather rivets too. The two whole rings and one broken one are all brass and while it is possible that they're from contemporary halters, they were in the same layer as everything else and have some patina so they could be old too.
The mechanism is the weirdest piece though. I found it like it is in the first photo where it was folded together with the smaller pieces inside the large ring. And then inside the smaller circle of copper is the gears on the shaft and two small cut pieces of copper. Absolutely no writing or symbols of any kind. I'm open to any suggestions on it!
And last is what was probably a coin at one point but the ground was very rough on it. It looks a lot like the shadow of a bust on the front, but it could also be coincidental areas of corrosion. It's strange though, because the Vermont copper was covered in green patina, but both sides have great definition and not much copper was eaten away. I wonder why this coin was so badly degraded in the same soil?
