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Everything here is from the colonial cellar hole I discovered a few weeks back. Now that the weeds are dying off I've been detecting it every chance I get, but it's slow going with the brambles and dead trees covering most of the ground. Until today I've been wondering why no coins have turned up. There have been plenty of relics and more than a few non-ferrous pieces, but not so much as an IHP. My luck finally turned today though with the first coin at this site and it's my first half cent to boot!
This is completely uncleaned, but I can tell it's in phenomenal shape for a copper this age and I'll be cleaning the dirt off very slowly. This site also produced another first for me: an intact pewter spoon!
I find pieces of these all the time, but never whole and it's a miracle with all the rocks and roots in this soil that it came out in one piece.
This site has been producing an amazing array of relics and in fairly good condition. The cellar hole is on the edge of a rise in the terrain and the soil is very rocky so I think water drains out of it fast. As a result the iron relics come out in quite good condition and I'm planning to treat many of them for display. Here are the buckles:
The chape still moves on the huge brass one, and the small silver washed buckle is in similarly good condition. The suspenders buckle is stamped "nonpareil" which is very appropriate since you never find two suspender buckles that are the same.
I'm very happy with the selection of iron tools from this site and the small iron hammer is very interesting. As a side note, the garden hoe in the middle is the first I've found like that; is that a colonial style?
This site also holds the new record for number of toe plates.
There were a handful of buttons, including a no-design dandy, and a piece of crotal bell. The iron parasol slide is unusual since up until now all I've unearthed have been copper or brass.
Finally there this tiny reed. Any idea what instrument this was from?
Based on the relics it looks like this site was occupied from the late 1700's to around the 1850's. I'm far from done detecting it, but now that I know there's early American coinage to be found I'll be double-checking under every bramble. After all, there has to be at least one piece of silver!
This is completely uncleaned, but I can tell it's in phenomenal shape for a copper this age and I'll be cleaning the dirt off very slowly. This site also produced another first for me: an intact pewter spoon!
I find pieces of these all the time, but never whole and it's a miracle with all the rocks and roots in this soil that it came out in one piece.
This site has been producing an amazing array of relics and in fairly good condition. The cellar hole is on the edge of a rise in the terrain and the soil is very rocky so I think water drains out of it fast. As a result the iron relics come out in quite good condition and I'm planning to treat many of them for display. Here are the buckles:
The chape still moves on the huge brass one, and the small silver washed buckle is in similarly good condition. The suspenders buckle is stamped "nonpareil" which is very appropriate since you never find two suspender buckles that are the same.
I'm very happy with the selection of iron tools from this site and the small iron hammer is very interesting. As a side note, the garden hoe in the middle is the first I've found like that; is that a colonial style?
This site also holds the new record for number of toe plates.
There were a handful of buttons, including a no-design dandy, and a piece of crotal bell. The iron parasol slide is unusual since up until now all I've unearthed have been copper or brass.
Finally there this tiny reed. Any idea what instrument this was from?
Based on the relics it looks like this site was occupied from the late 1700's to around the 1850's. I'm far from done detecting it, but now that I know there's early American coinage to be found I'll be double-checking under every bramble. After all, there has to be at least one piece of silver!
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I’ve found 4-5 of hoes like that around cellars dating 1730s-1760s,that’s the old style. Great hunt,get back to it man
