1855 Stagecoach Stop Site

[ANTIQUARIAN]

The owner of this property recently gave me permission to detect this site and 3 others he owns. On Thursday I spent 4hrs here and slowly gridded a narrow stretch of the yard on the east side of the oldest section of the building. The front portion of the building dates to the 1880's, while the back part dates to 1855. Consequently, most of my older finds came in the 1855 area of the side yard. A wrap-around porch had been removed from the 1880 front and side portion of the building in the 1960's. Most of the finds from the front portion of the yard dated from the 1950's onwards. I swept across the very front of the yard and got few signals and no finds. It was bit disappointing that I only found modern coinage and not a single baggage tag in sight! The one bright spot was that the old pocket watch face ring is silver!

My favourite finds were the shield buckle, the cover of a compact, the 1950's cap gun and the nickel-plated whistle. The whistle has some writing on it, so to read it better ... yup I have to tumble it!

There are two more properties attached to this one. Next door there's a concrete swimming pool built in the 1930's or 40's that apparently had rental cabins surrounding it, it's now attached to a 1970's built house. Next to that there's an 1890's built home, with a lot of open area around it, so I feel confident there's definitely more to be found here. In the last pic, the area in red is where I detected yesterday, in blue is the pool / cabin site and in green is the 1890's home site.
Thanks for looking and hope you all have a great long weekend,
Dave

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

Dave, Vino's super old, super productive site he has been gracious enough to share several times with several people has an enormous front lawn that has been the most productive part of the property. It is just so huge that it seems overwhelming to try and grid methodically. Perhaps yours would be the same?

Well, let me put it this way Dave . . .

I went east to west and even walked backwards sometimes to make sure I didn't miss anything good after I found the shield buckle and the whistle.
On my next visit I'll go north to south and walk backwards too!

Take care buddy,
Dave

 

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[johnnyblaze]

Nice variety as usual Dave

That buckle is sweet..

~Blaze

 

[coinman123]

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

My favorite is the whistle or maybe the compact? I the compact.lol
I the pix too!

Thanks for your post Brad!
After tumbling the whistle I was able to read the writing on it ... 'Canadian Girl Guides - Made in England'.
See at the bottom of this post for before & after pics of the 'tumbled' finds>

Best of luck to you my friend,
Dave

Nice grab on the buckle, and other items.
It's always a when it comes to certain locations and it has history written all over the site but there's little to no coinage show for the hours put in detecting. This new site has the potential of producing some very nice keepers, and I'm thinking if the main activity was off the side. Lets say another smaller structure for the hitching of horses away from the main house, either way there's a sweet spot waiting for the coil to go over on a return hunt.

Thanks very much for the information J!
I've been back to the site one more time since posting this, mainly detecting around the back of the house.
Although, I did detect the front yard in the opposite direction and found nothing.

There are still two more properties adjacent to this one that i have permission to detect.
Next week I'm on holiday and hope to get back again ... weather permitting.
I received an email from a home owner in Port Hope this week and he wants me to detect his 1840's home site!
Dave

Very nice digs, Antiquarian. Fun and interesting finds are always good if you cant find coins or jewelry in my opinion, and you certainly have done that!

Maybe, but I also have a theory that there may be sites - no matter how old - that just dont produce. One of my permissions is a 1817 stagecoach stop, and the woman who owns it lived there for 47 years. She claims that no one has ever detected it. I have found a brass buckle, which I am assuming goes to some sort of saddle maybe - its too small for a shoe - and thats about it. After hours spent, I've only found a clad dime and a wheatie, and hundreds of nails and assorted trash. Not one silver.

So its probably okay to consider the notion that a there are sites that just dont produce or the targets are deeper than the capabilites of our detectors.

I completely agree with you Higgy!
I can't tell you how many sites I've detected that have held amazing potential and yet produced very little!

It's a mystery, thanks for your post!
Dave

Nice digs.

Thanks!

 

[Dagger Woods]

Neat stuff! Those items really clean up nicely! You've probably posted on this before but could you tell a newb how you go about tumbling your finds?

 

[g-olden years]

Super finds! Andi

 

[prolab69]

that is a sweet buckle, the whistles cool too, yeah i wouldnt be surprised if theres a hot spot there.
youll find it.