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[ANTIQUARIAN]

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Yesterday morning I got back to the site for a couple of hours where I found the British Martingale Badge. My first find of interest was a Canadian 1953 Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Coin, this is the second one of these I've found in 3 years. Apparently, every school age kid in Canada got one of these spiffy medals when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, so there are a heck of a lot of them around! My next find was the large brass buckle with the fancy decoration ... if anyone can give me a definitive age for this piece I would appreciate it! I then dug the Little Cleo “WIGL” Spoon, I could just make out some writing on it, but this became much clearer when I cleaned it at home!

Little Cleo was a real life performer from the 1930′s in New York City. The developer of this lure was “inspired” by Little Cleo, stamped a likeness on the backside of the spoon (topless belly dancer) and made her a namesake in 1953. In 1996 a female employee of a retail store took offense to the image and complaints forced the company to end this lures production.


My last find was the large bronze horse buckle. I've found a number of these over the years but this is definitely the largest of it's type that I've found!

This site is a 2hr drive each way from my house, so I'll hopefully I'll get back there again late next week.

Thanks for looking and best of luck to you all,
Dave

PS. The picture of the little girl with the black hair is my helper Lilly ... her job is to drive my crazy barking at squirrels all day!

 

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[tyrocksalot]

Nice haul. Do you use her instead of a digging tool. HH

 

[dirtlooter]

they cleaned up very nicely... so does she sniff your finds out for you?

 

[Ahab8]

Dave I love that buckle. I will check my book tomorrow and get you a date range.
Tell you pooch Jada says hello

 

[treblehunter]

Good finds, I like Lilly best and that lure is too cool.

 

[CRUSADER]

Good more evidence that these so called batwing buckles are horse related & at least mid-19th C. How old is this site?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Nice haul. Do you use her instead of a digging tool. HH

Nah, she's too easily distracted by squirrels, birds and other dogs to used as a 'recovery tool'!
But she's darn cute!
Dave

they cleaned up very nicely... so does she sniff your finds out for you?

Thanks DL!
No, but she can smell a piece of chicken lying on the kitchen floor from 50'!
Dave

Dave I love that buckle. I will check my book tomorrow and get you a date range.
Tell you pooch Jada says hello

Thanks very much Abe, I'd appreciate any info you can find!
Jada's a beauty (that's a great pic too), she looks like she's saying, "Hey Dad I found my ball, let's go outside and play"!
Dave

Good finds, I like Lilly best and that lure is too cool.

Thanks Brad!
Lilly is certainly a 'barky monkey' as I like to call her ... but we love here anyway!
Dave

Good more evidence that these so called batwing buckles are horse related & at least mid-19th C. How old is this site?

From the research that I've done and by 'research' I mean talking to others who've detected the site previously and to the 'locals' who live in the area.
There were at least 4 houses and possibly 5 originally on this site. The earliest was likely built in 1800 the most recent probably from 1900, the last house (c1830) was torn in 2013.
The site covers almost 3 acres, so there's obviously a lot of ground that the others before me likely missed!
Dave

 

[CRUSADER]

'The site covers almost 3 acres, so there's obviously a lot of ground that the others before me likely missed!'


I systematically covered 3 acres the other week when I did that 8 hours & 15 minutes.(on my own) It's part of our success, you have to cover the area quickly, specially as many of our Roman Sites are as large as 10 or more acres.
But thats on ploughed land where its easy to grid. Not to say I don't missed stuff, because we go back for many years. Just thought I would give an insight to our land coverage.

 

[Greylock]

Nice haul. I like the buckles. With such a large place who knows what cold be there. Hope ya get back there and pull some more goods.

 

[beez0404]

Great finds. I hate that your site is so far away from home. I'm dreading the day when I've hunted everything fairly close to me and have to start venturing further and further. Heck I might just move to a new location and start over. Probably up near Bill D in VA with all that history!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Nice relic finds! And a really cute squirrel chaser ! You never have to worry about the squirrels absconding with your treasures again, Lilly is on the job!

 

[Evolution]

Nice finds. I love those bat wing buckles.

 

[Old Dude]

Nice ones, Dave. That first buckle is a real looker!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

'The site covers almost 3 acres, so there's obviously a lot of ground that the others before me likely missed!'

I systematically covered 3 acres the other week when I did that 8 hours & 15 minutes.(on my own) It's part of our success, you have to cover the area quickly, specially as many of our Roman Sites are as large as 10 or more acres.
But thats on ploughed land where its easy to grid. Not to say I don't missed stuff, because we go back for many years. Just thought I would give an insight to our land coverage.

Thank you very much for the information Cru, this is very helpful!
I'll often revisit sites that I haven't been back to for a few years just to see if anything 'sounds different'.
Dave

Nice haul. I like the buckles. With such a large place who knows what cold be there. Hope ya get back there and pull some more goods.

Thanks very much for your post Greylock!
I hope to get back there again on Thursday this week.
Dave

Great finds. I hate that your site is so far away from home. I'm dreading the day when I've hunted everything fairly close to me and have to start venturing further and further. Heck I might just move to a new location and start over. Probably up near Bill D in VA with all that history!

This is exactly the problem I'm having. I've detected all of the sites with any potential in my area, now I'm looking further afield at more distant locals.
I'm currently hunting a local park that's 10miles away, but it is surrounded by post-WWII built homes.
I doesn't appear to have ever seen a metal detector before, so I'm optimistic I'll find some silver coinage there!
Best of luck to you beez,
Dave

Nice relic finds! And a really cute squirrel chaser ! You never have to worry about the squirrels absconding with your treasures again, Lilly is on the job!

She's definitely is the friendliest dog we've ever had, but I don't think she'd know what to do with a squirrel if she ever caught one!
Best of luck to you K!
Dave

Nice finds. I love those bat wing buckles.

Thank you Sir!

Nice ones, Dave. That first buckle is a real looker!

Thanks very much Dave!

 

[worldtalker]

So...................what do you have for today

COOL finds dude!!

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

So...................what do have for today

COOL finds dude!!

GOD Bless

Chris

Hopefully I'll have some decent finds to show you later tonight Chris!
Take care buddy,
Dave