Church yard finds.

[IHC656]

I went back to where my old church and school was until it was demolished years ago. A section of sidewalk was just removed and found the 1939 Mercury dime and 53 & 1920 wheat pennies.
I believe this was a pewter spoon.
The church was built in 1911 from what I read.

 

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[cajundetector]

I went back to where my old church and school was until it was demolished years ago. A section of sidewalk was just removed and found the 1939 Mercury dime and 53 & 1920 wheat pennies.
I believe this was a pewter spoon.
The church was built in 1911 from what I read.
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Very cool! Congrats!

 

[pepperj]

Nice going on the Mercury dime.
Thinking the pewter spoon certainly predates the church build.
Though from reading different historical accounts it seemed to be common for a landowner to gift the church a piece of land to build on.
So that being said the site might produce some more stuff from earlier times.

 

[IHC656]

Nice going on the Mercury dime.
Thinking the pewter spoon certainly predates the church build.
Though from reading different historical accounts it seemed to be common for a landowner to gift the church a piece of land to build on.
So that being said the site might produce some more stuff from earlier times.

I do know the property was donated/gifted to the church. Unsure if there was a earlier church building. There’s a much older General Store across the street that is still in business.

 

[IHC656]

I wasn’t going to post this. But it was mentioned this could be a much older site.
Decided to try and clean the mystery iron.
And it looks like a cast iron pan the was used for smelting. Is very fragile, tried tapping some chunks off and broke a piece off the side off.
Found about 2ft below where the sidewalk was. Same area as the coins and spoon, but they where only 3 to 4 inches deep.

 

[Groundhogg]

I wasn’t going to post this. But it was mentioned this could be a much older site.
Decided to try and clean the mystery iron.
And it looks like a cast iron pan the was used for smelting. Is very fragile, tried tapping some chunks off and broke a piece off the side off.
Found about 2ft below where the sidewalk was. Same area as the coins and spoon, but they where only 3 to 4 inches deep.

Pretty sure it's a cast iron frying pan. Judging by the ridge around the bottom and the place where the handle was. I don't know why but I've found several pan handles but never the pan... just parts. Just a thought. Nice merc...congrats!

 

[jewelerguy]

nice!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the coins.

 

[xr7ator]

fan DIME tastic

 

[Digger RJ]

I went back to where my old church and school was until it was demolished years ago. A section of sidewalk was just removed and found the 1939 Mercury dime and 53 & 1920 wheat pennies.
I believe this was a pewter spoon.
The church was built in 1911 from what I read.
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Very Nice!!! Congrats!!