IRON MAIDEN! Colonial iron incl. pitchfork, axes, and buttons & draped...

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IRON MAIDEN! Colonial iron incl. pitchfork, axes, and buttons & draped...

I have been away for family vacation, forbidden to detect for the week despite being in a colonial area of Maine. Long story short, and not by chance, we ended up on eastern Long Island where I did some colonial digging.

Day one was sifting for about 4 hrs, and found lots of bits including buttons and hand-blown glass. The shells are clams - a very important food to Long Islanders in colonial days.
Here's the pit I marked two months ago:




Day two was detecting an old farm that had some poor folk about. All iron, no copper to speak of. After two days and about 10hrs.
Here's the foundation hole, apparently disappeared between 1846-1857...


Here it is:



Hand wrought Axes:
Pitchfork:
Hand iron:
Log grabber?:
Iron smalls incl. buckles
Hand blown glass and black glass:
Smalls incl. a poured rat-tail pewter spoon handle:
Barely and coinage. A crusty draped copper and half copper:
Smalls incl. thimbles and such:

Anyway, enjoy. I'm sending off the iron to Brad (OutdoorAdv) for some expert preservation. I'll post the results soon enough.

Steve

 

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Nice digs Steve. How did you sift? Small frame with a screen or do you have a larger set-up? The watch frame coins and buttons are a great addition to your finds.

I used a 2' x 4' sifter with 3/8" wire mesh. Wasn't a bad set-up, l but I'm going to build a 2.0 version this week.

 

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Glad to see that you got out. Nice selection of finds too.

The cool weather will be here shortly, and I am certain that you will make up for lost time!

Best of luck to you sir!

Haha thx Tom. The good weather and sun have slowed me down. Too much growth in all my foundation spots. Charlie and I were actually joking last week how we wished it were late fall...lol

 

[JerseyDigger19]

Those iron relics came out amazing! Way to go!

 

[Scrappy]

Nice hunt, any ticks? There are no ticks in the water. I had to send off my Deus, water infiltrated my waterproof bag. I'm receiving a brand new control box. They informed me Deus came out with a new hard case and was told the new coil and upgrade will kick butt in the salt water. I'm already looking forward to next year water hunting.
I was up in the Poconos this past weekend, I found a great fall/winter spot to detect as long as there would be no snow?

Sorry to hear about the Deus, but at least it's covered. As far as ticks - hopefully I'm in the clear - but there's always a chance I'll get superpowers from a tic, kind of like Spider-Man.

Let me know about the Poconos. Foundation?

 

[silver john]

Great stuff. Great variety

 

[Scrappy]

WTG man...perseverance at the definition!

Thanks Dan. My wife didn't figure out my scheme until it was too late. She said no metal detecting...so I pack the sifter on the Jeep roof and cover it with some bags. Not to be fooled she asked me what I was packing. I told her I was using the wood to keep the roof cargo in place.


Then I hid the deus in a bag...

Cha Ching!

 

[Ahab8]

Don't be creeping into Maine you dirty dog! There's nothing to see here. You don't see me rolling into NJ plundering your secret spots. I'm just glad the wife had your detector on lock down. Nice little grouping of finds bud. It can't always be Spanish silver and 1812 buttons....but it will be this fall my friend. I can't wait

 

[Diggin Dude]

Cool finds!! Congrats and HH

 

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Great hunts man! I really like that pitchfork a LOT. I wish it wasnt losing one of the tines on it, but that might be the reason you found it... trashed after it broke! The flat clothes iron is awesome too. Look forward to preserving those for you.

As a few others pointed out the grabber is a hinge piece. Here are a couple ones I have found and zapped.

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This one I slid a strap hing on to display. It has a long "tail" on it but its hidden between the bricks.

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The bend in yours looks looks too close to 90 degrees to be by mistake. I'm guessing they drilled a pilot hole through a 6" or so post, hammered the hinge piece in, and bent the last inch or two of the "tail" part up to "lock" it in place. I find rose heads with bends like that too.
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You work magic with your iron Brad.

And I think you're right about the hinge, and somebody must have wailed on it for such a bend.

 

[creskol]

Yep, very nice Google work.

.. no google work here .. just a rehash of a recent post here on T-net.

 

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Don't be creeping into Maine you dirty dog! There's nothing to see here. You don't see me rolling into NJ plundering your secret spots. I'm just glad the wife had your detector on lock down. Nice little grouping of finds bud. It can't always be Spanish silver and 1812 buttons....but it will be this fall my friend. I can't wait

Haha, you busted me!

I'm actually quite stoked about the iron after seeing the possibilities, but yeah, Spanish would have been nice. I'm 0 on the Spanish for 2016. Last year I was already at 4 with one being a cob. Sigh...

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