lucky four scores me a 1894 Indian head

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Woke up at 4am, called old Jersey girl four hours later so not to wake her. We went to a cornfield permission of mine. I had looked up a old house on historicmapworks.com
Four hours later she found an iron patch as big as a football field. She found four coins, I'll let her tell you what she found.
Good day, new good site, I'll be there tomorrow.Enjoy the pix
HH & GL
Brad


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Here are a couple other finds that I'm not sure what they are, along with the cleaned up Indian Head Cent
 

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Cleaned up with couple of targets I don't know what they are?
 

Thanks Dave and Tony.
 

Brad found the first Indian. I found a wheat, then two Indians and another wheat that had a run in with the plow.indians 006.JPG Could not get good photos.
 

nice ihc!cleaned up very well,but the dirty pic.rocks...I never get tired of lookin at'em..
 

Nice digs Brad!!! You know how i love IHs..
George
 

That one lever looking thing looks like a window latch, like what is on a car. You know those old "air conditioning" windows. I found one intact that is made of brass.

Man, I need to get a few Indians before the ground freezes. It has been a lean year for me on those.
 

Hey nice finds you two. Looks like a great site. Couple of interesting items bud
 

Brad found the first Indian. I found a wheat, then two Indians and another wheat that had a run in with the plow.<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1078673"/> Could not get good photos.

Look like nice photos to me.
Great finds Becky.
 

Thanks all you guys for your comments
 

Congrats on the IH Brad! :occasion14:
Bet there's more there too!

Dave
 

The round thing with the cavity ( which probably feels like lead) is most likely a lead cover for the head of a nail. Used the make a sealed contact
 

The round thing with the cavity ( which probably feels like lead) is most likely a lead cover for the head of a nail. Used the make a sealed contact

I have found these at almost all the really old sites I have hunted. I never knew what they were. I'm still not exactly sure what you mean by "Used the make a sealed contact"?
 

I have found these at almost all the really old sites I have hunted. I never knew what they were. I'm still not exactly sure what you mean by "Used the make a sealed contact"?

460 is right. It's the cap for lead-head roofing nails. The lead cap would conform to the metal roofing, sealing around the nail hole, while protecting the head of the nail from rusting. They were nailed on top of the ridges (corrugations).
 

460 is right. It's the cap for lead-head roofing nails. The lead cap would conform to the metal roofing, sealing around the nail hole, while protecting the head of the nail from rusting. They were nailed on top of the ridges (corrugations).

Haaa that's funny, just goes to show, you can teach an old dog new tricks. I'm a retired commercial roofer, of course I'm not that old that I was using any of these lead caps in my career. I started out in 1981 doing hot tar roofing and coal tar pitch hot roofing. I never in my career ever did any metal roofing.
 

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