Not lead but - not brass - but likely to leave a mark!

[Paul of Mo]

Greetings!

I do not post much but I do visit this site often and enjoy it greatly!

A few months ago I found an old Mexican coin made into a heroin spoon and yesterday fairly close to the same spot I got a big hit on my F5 and at 10 inches I dug up these.

They are harder than lead but very heavy - I would not want to be on the receiving end of a beat down by these babies.

Both items were deep, the coin is from 1892, and none of the old timers on the road remember anything being at that site on our property. I am only finding old square nails and nothing modern in this specific spot - very odd.

Happy hunting to all!

- Paul

 

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[leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose...tough area and not so ordinary find...wtg!

 

[Wldbil]

That is a different type of find... Think I might leave that area alone after some finds like that.

 

[djm of PA]

wow, very cool finds! i'd only be putting the headphones on one ear in that spot though! and watching over my back often

 

[Rooter]

I beleive the spoon is a souvenir spoon perhaps re-purposed for the activity you described.
It's a great and unusual find. I would hit that place hard.




http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-STERLIN...334223?pt=Antiques_Silver&hash=item5640bd48cf

 

[lennon631]

Well, 10 inches deep means to me that it's been a while since that thing was dropped! Cool find!

 

[N.J.THer]

Fun finds...if it was 10 inches deep it was a tough place a long time ago...may not be anymore. Good luck and be safe.

NJ

 

[The Patriot]

very neat and different type of finds....

 

[kuger]

Very awesome find!!I have seen several surface in 1850's camps.I am waiting for mine!!!!A set of those are at the top of my list!!!

 

[Paul of Mo]

Thanks for all the replies - this is what makes MD'g fun.

I found the link to the "silver and hash" item interesting. It does look very much like what I found. I do think this one is much older as it was 8 to 10 inches deep on the edge of a farm field. Like the knuckles it was in deep and in undisturbed soil. It is also very crudely made.

My son and I went back out to the same area tonight and found a musket ball that is just a hair over 1/2 inch across - you can see the mold seam and where they cut the pour off the ball - it was 7 inches down. A few feet from that we found a small harmonica reed at the same depth. There is simply nothing shallow or anything new in this 20 x 20 area. About 100 yards from this spot was an 1870's log cabin at one time. The original barn is still standing behind where the cabin was and I have pulled several hundred pounds of interesting old iron from that area. There is very little between the two spots even in all metal mode.

This area is as close to living in a Norman Rockwell painting as you can get. Rolling farms that have been in the same families for hundreds of years, wineries, old churches, and cows - lots of cows.

I wish these things could talk!

- Paul