- Mar 30, 2020
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Sifting through a large old farm area overgrown with forests. This area has 300 years of use layered in but the 1700's interest me the most. I'm more of a needle in the haystack detectorist so I feel overloaded when trying to pick through debris fields from late 1800's farms. I tend to stay away from those foundation pits and work the surrounding area instead. This yields stray isolated finds like the two skeleton keys in the same hole. Legend has it finding skeleton keys is good luck. So finding two keys and a horse shoe in one afternoon might signal future good luck. I see tons of nails but this might be a horse shoe nail from an old dirt road. The projectile-like object measures .46 inch diameter but is not lead. The broken iron kettle is neat as I do find find these shards quite often but not with the wire handle attached. Found this broken scythe along with a hoe and pieces of a draft animal iron plow. I think I'm the first one to seriously detect this area so this weekend I'm hoping to find something more interesting and date definitive.
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