MuckyBottles
Bronze Member
Back in the saddle again, I needed to take a break (wifey was complaining
) so these past couple weeks I racked up the detector and broke out the screen to do some sifting due to the soil around here as hard as concrete. So I decided to hit an old cellar pit from the early 1700's up until 1890's, roughly 18x12, an 1/8th of the way through, I have found some real neat items (stone marble, opium bottles, etc) which I will post later...However, I did find this old lock of sorts with the skeleton key inchs away. Now, I do not know diddly squat about locks, could some of you wise folk here fill me in? I do not know where begin..
On a side note, when i pulled it out of the ground, it was nothing but a hunk of rust, with some lime away and copper wool, I have nearly clean.
) so these past couple weeks I racked up the detector and broke out the screen to do some sifting due to the soil around here as hard as concrete. So I decided to hit an old cellar pit from the early 1700's up until 1890's, roughly 18x12, an 1/8th of the way through, I have found some real neat items (stone marble, opium bottles, etc) which I will post later...However, I did find this old lock of sorts with the skeleton key inchs away. Now, I do not know diddly squat about locks, could some of you wise folk here fill me in? I do not know where begin..On a side note, when i pulled it out of the ground, it was nothing but a hunk of rust, with some lime away and copper wool, I have nearly clean.
