SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS
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Just nit-picking tonight.
Most posters on this site use the term relic. Metal detectors have relic modes.
Got out the dictionary.
RELIC: a surviving memorial of something past.
an object having interest by reason of it's age or it's association with the past.
a surviving trace of something.
ARTIFACT: any object made or modified by man.
I usually use the term artifact for something I find, unless I can place it to the area I found it in.
I found a shooting gallery duck in an area that was once an amusement park, I call it a relic. I found
some tags from the University Of Chicago in an area where they had a atomic program going, again a relic.
I find a piece of metal in a field that I cannot I.D. , it could be a farmers but I am not sure, I
call that an artifact. The same field had some French troops in the area in the past, and I find a French
coin from the period they passed through, I call it a relic. If I find an old foundation and dig some bottles
near it, I call it an artifact, who know who dumped them, could have been the folks who had the foundation,
perhaps not. AM I MAKING ANY SENSE?
Unless you can tie it in with the area and time frame you are hunting it would only be an artifact and not
a relic.
Any comments?
all have a good un.........
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS
Most posters on this site use the term relic. Metal detectors have relic modes.
Got out the dictionary.
RELIC: a surviving memorial of something past.
an object having interest by reason of it's age or it's association with the past.
a surviving trace of something.
ARTIFACT: any object made or modified by man.
I usually use the term artifact for something I find, unless I can place it to the area I found it in.
I found a shooting gallery duck in an area that was once an amusement park, I call it a relic. I found
some tags from the University Of Chicago in an area where they had a atomic program going, again a relic.
I find a piece of metal in a field that I cannot I.D. , it could be a farmers but I am not sure, I
call that an artifact. The same field had some French troops in the area in the past, and I find a French
coin from the period they passed through, I call it a relic. If I find an old foundation and dig some bottles
near it, I call it an artifact, who know who dumped them, could have been the folks who had the foundation,
perhaps not. AM I MAKING ANY SENSE?
Unless you can tie it in with the area and time frame you are hunting it would only be an artifact and not
a relic.
Any comments?
all have a good un.........
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS