DownNDirty
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Last Saturday I finally located the site of an 18th century plantation home that I have been trying to find for about two years. British soldiers occupied it during a short period of time during the Revolutionary War, so there is a lot of history there. Saturday I found a large D ring that was used on a saddle, a flat button, kaolin pipe stem pieces, pottery shards, colonoware, black glass shards, a tack and a bunch of rose-headed nails.
I went back on Monday & took up where I left off. I picked up a good signal about 4 inches deep next to a tree & when I first dug it I thought to myself "Oh that's a cool wood stove piece." Then I turned it to an upright position, cleaned some of the dirt off & realized that it was a fully intact cock mechanism from a Brown Bess flintlock that was more than likely was lost when the British troops were there. I also dug the end of a two-tined fork, an iron meat skewer, an intact iron buckle, half of a two-piece button, another tack, plenty of pipe pieces (and two partial bowls), and more black glass, pottery & colonoware. One of the pipe bowls is decorated with the British royal coat of arms.
Here's a big thanks to those of you who id'd several of the relics in the "What Is It?" forum.
I'm headed back for a full day of detecting there on Saturday-it should be interesting.
I went back on Monday & took up where I left off. I picked up a good signal about 4 inches deep next to a tree & when I first dug it I thought to myself "Oh that's a cool wood stove piece." Then I turned it to an upright position, cleaned some of the dirt off & realized that it was a fully intact cock mechanism from a Brown Bess flintlock that was more than likely was lost when the British troops were there. I also dug the end of a two-tined fork, an iron meat skewer, an intact iron buckle, half of a two-piece button, another tack, plenty of pipe pieces (and two partial bowls), and more black glass, pottery & colonoware. One of the pipe bowls is decorated with the British royal coat of arms.
Here's a big thanks to those of you who id'd several of the relics in the "What Is It?" forum.
I'm headed back for a full day of detecting there on Saturday-it should be interesting.
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