I suspect an old find in my yard - llooking for age range

[DeepseekerADS]

My farm dates way back in our family. to the early 1700's.

Trying out my new used Tejon yesterday in my back yard area, found this "thumb screw"? Is that what it is?

Please take a look at the pictures. I was getting the mud/dirt off of it and flicked off a hunk of rusted metal.

But I'm thinking this find may date back a bit...

 

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[Kray Gelder]

Yeah, I'd say some kind of thumb screw. But...are those hand cut threads? If so, that puts it back there I think. Kind of fancy, also.

 

[vhs07]

Looks like an old C clamp screw.

 

[Mackaydon]

Maybe a coffin thumbscrew; used to seal the lids of coffins prior to burial.
Don......

 

[WaterScoop]

Looks like an old C clamp screw.
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Yup!

 

[Kray Gelder]

Looks like an old C clamp screw.
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You nailed it, vhs.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Here's a picture with the screw featured with a ruler, threads per inch...

 

[BosnMate]

Yes sir, I was thinking it might be for a Victorian gas light, but vhs nailed it.

 

[worldtalker]

1700's...how many generations have lived there?

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[Red James Cash]

Hey guys

 

[old digger]

I have a 1900 th century apple peeler that has a very similar cast iron screw bolt. It is used to fasten the peeler to the edge of a table or counter top.

 

[RTR]

Boy ,you guys are...GOOD at ID ing stuff

 

[DeepseekerADS]

1700's...how many generations have lived there?

I really don't know, but Mom probably does - she's done the geneology of the Robertson family back to Scotland, coming over in 1690, and the Turner family back to Scotland in 1650. I'm a direct descendant of Shadrack Turner who settled in Henry, Virginia I figure sometime around 1751. There's a historical marker just South of us stating William Penn surveyed this area in 1730. The Old Plank Road going down from upstate Virginia down through North Carolina is just to the East of us running through what's now Stanleytown, there was a tavern where Geo. Washington stayed in 1757. The road goes through Bethania, NC which was formally established in 1759.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

VHS nailed it! Even with the same head design. With that, there's no real way of knowing just how old that thumb screw really is - only the corrosion speaks of its' age!

 

[BLK HOLE]

I'm going with VHS on this one and I have got to agree with RTR, this site and the people on it are freakin amazing with the level of knowledge and experience I see on a daily basis.

 

[TDogger]

That same type of thumbscrew could have been used on a variety of products. It seems too short for a C clamp, although the thumbscrew could have come from the same manufacturer as the ones used in the C clamp.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

That same type of thumbscrew could have been used on a variety of products. It seems too short for a C clamp, although the thumbscrew could have come from the same manufacturer as the ones used in the C clamp.

Early on there was a apple orchard here on my West ridge, Mom remembers it from when she was a child. The orchard is long gone now, the area heavily forested now. I'm thinking because of the size of the screw, this may have been part of a clamp for a hand crank apple peeler.

 

[worldtalker]

I really don't know, but Mom probably does - she's done the geneology of the Robertson family back to Scotland, coming over in 1690, and the Turner family back to Scotland in 1650. I'm a direct descendant of Shadrack Turner who settled in Henry, Virginia I figure sometime around 1751. There's a historical marker just South of us stating William Penn surveyed this area in 1730. The Old Plank Road going down from upstate Virginia down through North Carolina is just to the East of us running through what's now Stanleytown, there was a tavern where Geo. Washington stayed in 1757. The road goes through Bethania, NC which was formally established in 1759.

An area well worth searching dude!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

An area well worth searching dude!

Over my detecting years I've hit this place many times. The only silver I've ever found was a Merc back in the 80's. But then a few days ago I found another wheat with my "new" Royal Sabre, and then that screw with my "new" Tejon. I've only hit the yard, never into the woods or across the creek. One thing that limits me really is the knowledge my ancestors didn't carry pocket change, even a nickel was so important as to my great grandmother searching for weeks for a nickel my Mom lost here in the late 1930's. I really haven't expected to find anything, but clearly I need to consider relics as well as coins.

Where's the logic? I only hit this yard when I pick up a new detector?