Who says farm Iron cant be pretty !

[MaineRelic]

Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

Hunted an old farm site here in town today ! I hunted it this site this spring and took 0ver thirty leads out of the ground then, almost all of the 45/70's there are still alot of lead signals there! This spring I found 1coin at this site, a no date 2 cent piece in baaaad ! condition . No coins today though I did find some pretty farm iron !!! And Some more big lead!! I especially liked the two BIG HARNESS BUCKLES AND THE CROSS HARNESS HITCH! When I first brought it out of the groud I thoght it was a cruifix!! MaineRelic.

 

[wwwtimmcp]

Re: Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

looks like you got half of a snaffle bit. nice finds.

 

[Tnmountains]

Re: Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

Love that iron. Fun days digs for sure
HH
TnMtns

 

[vayank54]

Re: Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

looks like you got half of a snaffle bit. nice finds.

Yep half a snaffle bit and it looks like two ox shoe halves in the first pic. The longer brass piece in the first pic. Does the loop at the end go all the way around or is it open on one side? From what I can see in the pic it looks like one I dug in a civil war camp and I think it had wood in the end. I dug it in the '70's and still don't know what it is.

 

[kuger]

Re: Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

Yep,I agree ...half of a snaffle bit!Neat digs!!!

 

[ashleysflyr]

Re: Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

Ought to try electolisys on those! Neat digs!

~Tom

 

[MaineRelic]

Re: Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

looks like you got half of a snaffle bit. nice finds.

Yep half a snaffle bit and it looks like two ox shoe halves in the first pic. The longer brass piece in the first pic. Does the loop at the end go all the way around or is it open on one side? From what I can see in the pic it looks like one I dug in a civil war camp and I think it had wood in the end. I dug it in the '70's and still don't know what it is.

Vayank the brass piece is open on one end of the loop ! I wondered wat it was too??

 

[Michellets]

Re: Who says farm Iron can't be pretty !

I guess that's why I prefer to dig all the signals when I'm hunting.... sometimes you can come up with some very interesting pieces. I recently dug up a horse shoe that someone had forged some bars across the bottom of so that the horse wouldn't slip on the ice. Seems that some of the objects in iron were good examples of how the people improvised early metal objects into either toys ( pipe whistles) , or more utilitarian objects... HH M