Shako crown,artillery button, Native stone tool and few more items.

[Aureus]

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share some of the finds from the last week end as I haven't had a chance to write the post before.

Few interesting finds,

My favorite being a British shako crown. Was a little bent when I found it but I managed to fix it without damaging it.




An artillery button (1830's-1840's) and a few nice flat buttons.



A neck clasp and few other copper items, also a piece of an early pewter spoon.




A nice cannonball. I very rarely find them in the ground. Made me work to get it out ...



A few 1837 Lower Canada Halfpenny's and an unknown copper coin. (Maybe a Civil War period token, seems to have an Indian with ''Liberty'' writing)




What I believe to be a piece of a stone arrowhead,spearhead or a knife.



A nice fossil. I try to collect them from the fields when I get the chance.



Thanks for the comments!

 

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[trapperart]

Nice bunch of finds congrats

 

[Gridwalker306]

Great finds Aureus, the cannonball is a really cool dig and I love that shako crown.

 

[Kurios1]

Very nice variety of coins and way cool relics. Have you measured the cannon ball? I dug a four inch 12 pound solid iron cannon ball and I do consider it one of my best-favorite recoveries ever. Totally cool mate. Well done. Great spot you have there.

 

[Relicific]

Those are some nice relics Anton.
Nice canon ball and arrow head.

 

[Scrappy]

Very nice Shako crown. I have a sneaking suspicion a lot more are found but are pushed aside. I've seen two found, and both times the finders had it in their junk pile. Anywho, great save. Also great artillary button

 

[Patriot Relics]

Quite a haul Aureus, the mold seam on that cannonball seems to point to well preserved iron. Shako plate and arty buttons are just icing on the cake.

 

[Aureus]

Nice bunch of finds congrats

Thank you.

 

[Aureus]

Great finds Aureus, the cannonball is a really cool dig and I love that shako crown.

Thank you. Yes, the shako crown is a nice find. Hoping to find a complete one eventually.

 

[Aureus]

Very nice variety of coins and way cool relics. Have you measured the cannon ball? I dug a four inch 12 pound solid iron cannon ball and I do consider it one of my best-favorite recoveries ever. Totally cool mate. Well done. Great spot you have there.

Thank you. I believe it's a 12 pounder as well. I agree, a nice cannonball always makes my day. They are a pretty rare find where I'm hunting.

 

[dirtlooter]

very cool finds, very interesting and sweet finds

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Another amazing hunt man! That shako piece and artillery button are awesome.

Check out this site for identification on that possible cannon ball. SolidShotEssentialsMod (I believe one of the authors is a member on here)

Here is a quote from that article:

"The general surface of a cannonball should be smooth unless heavily pitted by corrosion. There should be no wide belts or raised bands at the mold seam, but a faint trace of the mold seam (if any) as the previous picture of the 12 Pdr. shows. There should be no flat spots, egg-shape or out-of-roundness to the object."

What seems a little off to me is how pronounced that mold seam is. That ball would have a lot of play to fit in a cannon, however I am by no means well versed in artillery... so i could be TOTALLY wrong here! As I understand, after casting, the artillery balls were "finished" where they would clean the seam and sprue. However, on smaller canister shot, they wouldn't take the time to "finish" them since canister was loaded as a group. That article was written based on American Civil War shot, so perhaps it doesn't apply here.

 

[CRUSADER]

Have you IDed the Crown type yet? At first I thought Will IV but I'm not so sure.....

 

[Aureus]

Those are some nice relics Anton.
Nice canon ball and arrow head.

Thanks Tony.

 

[Aureus]

Very nice Shako crown. I have a sneaking suspicion a lot more are found but are pushed aside. I've seen two found, and both times the finders had it in their junk pile. Anywho, great save. Also great artillary button

Thank you. It's my 3rd shako crown (found an other one yesterday) my first one was in a ''don't know what it is'' pile for a year. So yes, I believe it's possible that more are found and aren't posted here.

 

[Diggin Dude]

Those are some incredible finds!! Congrats and HH

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Z.K.]

Another clinic on "awesome digging." Nice recoveries, Anton!

I'm very curious about that "liberty" token. I don't recognize it at all. Hope more folks can chime in on that, maybe hit up Mackaydon or Bramblefind if no ID is forthcoming.


PS - you know you're good when Casper breaks out a GIF ^

 

[Ahab8]

Do you ever have a bad hunt buddy? You certainly have your research game locked down. I'd love to put a couple cannon balls in my collection. Very unlikely but I'll hold out hope. Love that artillery button

 

[Aureus]

Quite a haul Aureus, the mold seam on that cannonball seems to point to well preserved iron. Shako plate and arty buttons are just icing on the cake.

Thank you. Yes the cannonball seems to be very well preserved.