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[Older The Better]

Found these/this in an old sandstone quarry guessing it was active in the late 1800’s early 1900’s I assume it was quarry related

 

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[Madmox]

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Found these/this in an old sandstone quarry guessing it was active in the late 1800’s early 1900’s I assume it was quarry related

Hmmm not much to go on. It has pop rivets it looks like in it which would make it not too awful old.

 

[firemanphob]

I'm thinking it could have been a patch pop riveted onto something to cover a crack.

 

[Older The Better]

The curve on it made me think it was more than just a strap but I don’t know
time frame is simply based off of the founding of the nearest town 1863 and my grandpa now nearly 90 not knowing anything about it other than it was there... in fact nobody I’ve talked to knows anything about it. That’s why I’m doing my own investigating
It may not be much of anything but any info is better than none

 

[Older The Better]

If it helps when I say quarry I mean they were drilling stone from the top edge of some bluffs and splitting it with rock wedges, there are mounds of dirt pushed up all around small depressions and a small private road runs a quarter mile to the nearest county road. So I wonder if it has anything to do with moving dirt, maybe a reinforcement of some kind of blade

 

[ARC]

Possibly from side top of a "dome top" footlocker / steamer trunk. ?

 

[Kray Gelder]

I think I'm with firemanphob. An on the spot patch, or a reinforcement piece.

 

[creskol]

Maybe strapping off of an old wood chest like that on this old cedar chest:

 

[IowaRelic]

If it helps when I say quarry I mean they were drilling stone from the top edge of some bluffs and splitting it with rock wedges, there are mounds of dirt pushed up all around small depressions and a small private road runs a quarter mile to the nearest county road. So I wonder if it has anything to do with moving dirt, maybe a reinforcement of some kind of blade

I regularly hunt an 1860s rock pit/ work camp. You will find more iron like that then you will ever care to find if there was any real number of men or machinery. I have buckets of spikes, flat iron, kettle scrap, thin strips a lot like what you have here, and a million other rusty do-dads. All from an area about 50 yds square. The actual quarry site is now list sheer cliffs down to a creek. Full of rail spikes and horse shoes. Good luck. My quarry site is from 1868-1875 and it is rewarding and challenging. Lots of lead as well.

 

[Older The Better]

Best I’ve got is an axe head pushed up into one of the piles, i don’t hit it often because for most of the year the low spots hold water and you will be eaten alive by mosquitoes no matter how much bug spray you have. It also gets super brushy and hard to swing a detector

There’s gotta be some good stuff there, I wish I knew where they ate lunch or loaded wagons, places things could have fallen out of pockets.

I’m finding more in the pits than in the piles or level ground. Where do you have the best luck Iowa?

 

[IowaRelic]

Best I’ve got is an axe head pushed up into one of the piles, i don’t hit it often because for most of the year the low spots hold water and you will be eaten alive by mosquitoes no matter how much bug spray you have. It also gets super brushy and hard to swing a detector

There’s gotta be some good stuff there, I wish I knew where they ate lunch or loaded wagons, places things could have fallen out of pockets.

Check old maps for nearby homesite. A lot of times they were working on someone’s property and would set up camp nearby. My particular site sits on the edge of an 1830s/40s home site. If no home, check high ground between ravines, pottery on the surface is how I found this one.

 

[Older The Better]

I can’t find any maps before 1904, I’ve always thought there would be a building closer nearest ones are a half mile away, one is known the other is a spot in a pasture I suspect is older it produces square nails and older looking things but nothing yet that is reliably dateable and nobody knows anything about a building ever being there

 

[IowaRelic]

I can’t find any maps before 1904, I’ve always thought there would be a building closer nearest ones are a half mile away, one is known the other is a spot in a pasture I suspect is older it produces square nails and older looking things but nothing yet that is reliably dateable and nobody knows anything about a building ever being there

I would hunt that spot hard.

 

[Older The Better]

I go there off and on there’s a lot there but when the grass gets too tall I can’t swing a detector and there’s a bunch of large rocks and locust trees that keep me from knocking it down with a mower

Here’s some of the more interesting finds but I really can’t find much info about any of them definitely nothing to date them

 

[IowaRelic]

I go there off and on there’s a lot there but when the grass gets too tall I can’t swing a detector and there’s a bunch of large rocks and locust trees that keep me from knocking it down with a mower
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Here’s some of the more interesting finds but I really can’t find much info about any of them definitely nothing to date them

For sure something around there. Nice stuff. Thanks for sharing.