Just a buckle today

[johnnyi]

Three times in a row witrhin a month I've walked the shore road by the swamp, cut into the swamp at a different random place each time , and each time within a few seconds got my only good signal of the couple hours spent hunting. Besides this buckle, the finds today were a couple bronze nails in a little peice of buried wood, a piece of flattened lead probably to hold a flint, and lots of shotgun shells. The immediately found things the other two times this were a reale, and the other time an 1808 artillery button.

I like the buckle because this specific type is almost always a baldrick ( buckled the strap which went over the shoulder to hold the sword), and because I found it in view of the Barnegat inlet which saw some pirate action in the 17th and 18th centuries when this design was in use. Thanks for looking.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Family Maps of Hinds County, Mississippi, Deluxe Edition - Grab it through Amazon!

[Kirk PA]

When it comes to Colonial, Johnnyi is the man for the show.

Kirk

 

[Kyle PA]

WOHOOOOO, John, on that early 1600s buckle. That find has my heart beating...faster, that is.

Good luck on your future trips there. You will pull out more!

Kyle

 

[NJ Marty]

Very nice, Buckles are always a welcome sight and an early one like this is that much better.
Marty

 

[johnnyi]

Thanks fellers. Kyle, don't expect much from me out of the marsh. The signals there are all random drops, and are very very few and far between, probably because anybody with a lick of sense in the old days wouldn't have been out there unless he had to be. The up side is that if anybody lost a decent relic in the marsh the odds are he wouldn't have had much luck ever finding and retrieving it.

 

[The Patriot]

Congrats on that old buckle... nice to find it in ref. material too

 

[Kirk PA]

Thanks fellers. Kyle, don't expect much from me out of the marsh. The signals there are all random drops, and are very very few and far between, probably because anybody with a lick of sense in the old days wouldn't have been out there unless he had to be. The up side is that if anybody lost a decent relic in the marsh the odds are he wouldn't have had much luck ever finding and retrieving it.

Have you ever found Colonial coins in the Marshes?

Kirk

 

[Silver Searcher]

Johnnyi... would your Buckle have origanaly looked like this is there parts of yours missing this one has a very wide date range which fits right into the date you posted, and like you say used as a Sword hanger buckle.

1500-1630

SS

 

[johnnyi]

Thanks fellers. Kyle, don't expect much from me out of the marsh. The signals there are all random drops, and are very very few and far between, probably because anybody with a lick of sense in the old days wouldn't have been out there unless he had to be. The up side is that if anybody lost a decent relic in the marsh the odds are he wouldn't have had much luck ever finding and retrieving it.

Have you ever found Colonial coins in the Marshes?

Kirk

Kirk, in the real marsh (the boggy peat moss over gray sand that lays along the reed line) the only colonial coin has been a reale. A little farther in, maybe an eigth of a mile and a foot or two higher, I've found King George's and reales, but they've been few. Like everywhere else, most of the good finds are around the houses or farm fields, and there just weren't many of them here that close to the water back then. People were in the marsh to either work or guard the salt flats (salt works), salvage whatever washed in or was dragged in, or to hide from the British.

 

[johnnyi]

Johnnyi... would your Buckle have origanaly looked like this is there parts of yours missing this one has a very wide date range which fits right into the date you posted, and like you say used as a Sword hanger buckle.

1500-1630

SS

Silver searcher, no, my buckle is complete as in the picture next to it. Your buckle is spectacular!!! I'm not sure how to describe your's? "Double loop, openwork trefoil knops, with cross bar and sword loop"? Is that too wordy?

 

[Hardy]

Nice Old Buckle Bud , Would love to find one in my sites that I search.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Johnnyi... would your Buckle have origanaly looked like this is there parts of yours missing this one has a very wide date range which fits right into the date you posted, and like you say used as a Sword hanger buckle.

1500-1630

SS

I thought the sword loop might have broken off from yours this ones also similar, just not as fancy either way yours is a great find, seing as you have to search such a hard area, with only few signals

Silver searcher, no, my buckle is complete as in the picture next to it. Your buckle is spectacular!!! I'm not sure how to describe your's? "Double loop, openwork trefoil knops, with cross bar and sword loop"? Is that too wordy?

 

[johnnyi]

Colin, the difference is that your buckle actually hangs the sword; my buckle is for the baldrick (which in turn hangs the sword).

 

[Silver Searcher]

Colin, the difference is that your buckle actually hangs the sword; my buckle is for the baldrick (which in turn hangs the sword).

Right gotcha

SS

 

[kuger]

Very nice!!! :icon

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Nice find, umm can I ask what book it is you have??

Keep @ It and HH!!

 

[phantomfinder]

Well done , great find.

 

[Iron Patch]

You got some old stuff there! We've never dug a buckle anywhere near that age here. Maybe today is the day!

 

[sscindercoop]

Sweet buckle

 

[pepperj]

Great looking buckle