Pewter Spoon Handle??

[Swartzie]

To me this looks like part of a spoon handle. At first I thought it was lead because that's around where it hit on my detector, but it's not that heavy and who would make a lead spoon anyway. So, I'm thinking pewter. But were pewter eating utensils very popular? Also wondering how old it may be. Site is on a 1912 topo map.

Thanks for looking.
-Swartzie

 

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[BioProfessor]

Pewter was used quite often for eating utensils, plates, and drinking vessels. So it could be a pewter spoon handle.

Can you tell if the end is broken or smooth? Also pewter many times has a "brittle" uneven edge from ground action.

Daryl

 

[vayank54]

It looks like a spoon handle. We dig a lot of pewteer spoon pieces at early house sites and civil war camps. I believe most if not all are precivil war though

 

[kuger]

It looks like a spoon handle. We dig a lot of pewteer spoon pieces at early house sites and civil war camps. I believe most if not all are precivil war though

Yep

 

[Swartzie]

It looks like a spoon handle. We dig a lot of pewteer spoon pieces at early house sites and civil war camps. I believe most if not all are precivil war though

Awesome. From the stuff I have dug at this site most of it is from the 1920's. But I don't know the history of the site other than it's on a 1912 map. Now the area (less than 1 mile) does have history dating back to the 1750's (indian/military/missionary stuff). The site is situated in a pleasant area also so I'm sure that has drawn people in. What's funny is the object was darn near right on top of the ground. Lots of stuff I'm digging are not deep at all. The area does see flooding from local dams and where I'm digging is right where the water would crest and then recede. So, I'm thinking the flood waters have help erode the hill a bit.

-Swartzie

 

[BioProfessor]

Kids playing in the woods with their mother's good silverware. Damn kids!!

Daryl

 

[vayank54]

Kids playing in the woods with their mother's good silverware. Damn kids!!

Daryl

ha ha ha ha
that's the way it is sometimes. the older stuff will be shallow and the newer stuff deep. Down here the freezing and thawing of the ground can move stuff around and even bend stuff. If you have ever seen a civil war breast plate of buckle bowed up like a bowl, the freezing of the ground did that. Maybe some older stuff will turn up at that site.

 

[Swartzie]

Pewter was used quite often for eating utensils, plates, and drinking vessels. So it could be a pewter spoon handle.

Can you tell if the end is broken or smooth? Also pewter many times has a "brittle" uneven edge from ground action.

Daryl

The end is definitely broken.
-Swartzie

 

[BioProfessor]

Spoon (or fork) handle piece then. Probably 18th century. Keep looking. There will be more somewhere in the area.

Daryl