Unique Horse Rosette

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I targeted a couple of sites to search yesterday. The first ‘new permission' homestead site was in the middle of a farm field, unfortunately it was covered in a corn crop. (first two pics shown) I’ll have to wait for the fall harvest to detect this one. The next site I went to was where a one-room school was located in the 1860s. Unfortunately, it had seen a bunch of ton of activity in the past 150+ years and all I found there was modern trash and coins. Luckily it was located directly across the street from a homestead site the arkies had dug last summer.

As always, I would like to thank the arkies for leaving a beautiful looking horse rosette for me to find! Now, I’ve found a lot of rosettes in my nine years of detecting, but this example has more detail then any I’ve ever seen before. Coming out of the ground, it looked smooth as a baby’s bottom, it was only after giving it a warm bubble bath that the details started to appear. After a couple of passes on a fine brass wire wheel, a liberal slathering of Museum Conservator’s Wax and a final polishing with a buffer wheel, you can see the results. It was originally silver-plated on brass.

I have included pics of what the foundation look like that the arkies had uncovered last summer. The area circled in red is where I detected yesterday and also back in June after the beans had been planted... you can see what it looked like yesterday.

Thanks very much for looking,
Dave

 

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Nice job on the clean up Dave. What a beauty. Congrats again.

Thanks very much Hawks, I'm still in shock at the sheer amount of work somebody put into carving this piece.

Thanks,
Dave