Everett Mcgill
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I spent the last week learning my MXT by MD ing my yard. No easy task, as there was a blacksmith shop and an old house where mine now stands. The townsite that I live in dates to 1869. The smith closed down in the 40s and the house was torn down soon after. My house was moved in from town in the early 1960s.
I am also a bottle digger collector/digger as well as a MDer. I found and dug one of the outhouses under my house the week I moved in nearly 16 years ago. It was a pretty new one probably 30s or 40s judging by the junk bottles it was full of. I found out later that an early bottle club dug this yard in 1960.
Anyway. I have been cleaning up tons of junk iron with my MXT this week. The people who lived on this place must have been dirt poor, cause they didn't drop very much change on the ground. I have found brass shotgun shells, tons of assorted hand made iron rings of all sizes, most likely used for tack and wagon parts, wagon wheel tires (metal), hubs and just a veritable you name it of blacksmith hand made junk and general leavins.
My neighbor who was 90 when I moved in told me the Smith's money was never found when he died. So I am trying my best to find it. But so far just this kind of stuff. Here are a few pics of some stuff I got today a couple of wheaties a couple of pennies that I can't ID and a few memoriale also a newer quarter. I don't know who the copper man's head represents. My horse kicked that out in the pasture and I found it with my MXT.
Well...now that i've found this site, I will be reading and learning all I can.
I am also a bottle digger collector/digger as well as a MDer. I found and dug one of the outhouses under my house the week I moved in nearly 16 years ago. It was a pretty new one probably 30s or 40s judging by the junk bottles it was full of. I found out later that an early bottle club dug this yard in 1960.
Anyway. I have been cleaning up tons of junk iron with my MXT this week. The people who lived on this place must have been dirt poor, cause they didn't drop very much change on the ground. I have found brass shotgun shells, tons of assorted hand made iron rings of all sizes, most likely used for tack and wagon parts, wagon wheel tires (metal), hubs and just a veritable you name it of blacksmith hand made junk and general leavins.
My neighbor who was 90 when I moved in told me the Smith's money was never found when he died. So I am trying my best to find it. But so far just this kind of stuff. Here are a few pics of some stuff I got today a couple of wheaties a couple of pennies that I can't ID and a few memoriale also a newer quarter. I don't know who the copper man's head represents. My horse kicked that out in the pasture and I found it with my MXT.
Well...now that i've found this site, I will be reading and learning all I can.
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jgas
Buckleboy found one earlier this year:
