Dug a beauty today!

PhillyMike68

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This thing is in great shape, the mud is drying and flaking off and its like new, everything moves on it still... Amazing!! 20150611_151315.jpg20150611_151227.jpg20150611_140137.jpg20150611_140124.jpg20150611_151528.jpg
 

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that's an incredible buckle!!!! I don't know squat about the style/age.. but plenty of guys here do...
hopefully you will get an ID... along with approximate age... congrats!!!
 

Thanks guys, i don't know much about buckles either so i put it on the what is it site to.. I was shaking when i pulled that out, i love that stuff!!
 

ill let the experts chime in, but im pretty sure that's colonial. guessing shoe buckle. very very cool. can you give us general ideas as to the site...i know, i know, i dont want specifics...

edit: in all of that, i forgot to say, awesome find!
 

Very nice buckle
 

Beautiful complete shoe buckle. Looks like it has great pantina under the dried mud also. Congrats! :thumbsup:
 

SHE IS A BEAUTY ID SAY 1700S ALL THE WAY.VANZUTPHEN
 

Metal Mag is correct 18th Century Colonial shoe buckle of the highest condition , one could ever hope to find !

28 years detecting and never found one completely intact. Outstanding ! PhillyMike , my name is Mike as well .

Many more !:occasion14:

dawg
 

I cleaned it up a little and found this, US ?20150611_162423.jpg
 

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A beautiful historically significant recovery, congratulations!
 

Thats Awesome Mike.
Definitely mid 1750s.
Not sure about the us through?
 

ill let the experts chime in, but im pretty sure that's colonial. guessing shoe buckle. very very cool. can you give us general ideas as to the site...i know, i know, i dont want specifics...

edit: in all of that, i forgot to say, awesome find!
I looked on old satellite photos of a place in Langhorne and found that it was all farm land at one time, it's now a lake. A lot of the barns are now under water and most of the area is now covered in trees. I did a ton of walking in tick infested crap to find it. Well worth it...
 

awesome - i especially love finding stuff that is hidden away like that. where no one would have the foggiest idea of what was there before - and you go and pull something historic out of the ground. now that's just magic to me.
 

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