Small beach next to Maine Colonial Site, 1605 landing.

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I went for my second beach hunt ever today. im way more into the history/relics, but this tiny beach is right down the road from Colonial Pemaquid. (see red circle on old map below) This whole area is one of the oldest in Maine. In In 1605, George Waymouth and Englishman, with 29 men landed at Pemaquid. This is 2 years before the settlement of the first permanent colony at Jamestown, Virginia. And fifteen years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. He had intended to go ashore in Cape Cod. But fearful that the sand and shoals would provide too poor an anchorage, he continued north and east. After spending some time among the islands in the surround waters. He explored the mainland for a week. While there he captured 5 native Americans and took them back to England. They apparently lived with the better English families and were well treated. Since several of them upon their return to America acted as guides for Captain John Smith and other early explorers for the many islands, rivers, bays, and inlets of the Maine coast.
In the early days Pemaquid represented an important strategic position. It was the last outpost between the Englsih and the French. Both of whom claimed territory between the Kennebec and St. Croix river. The history of Pemaquid is closely tied with the rise and fall of the four forts that have been built there. Briefly the first fort, Fort Pemaquid was erected in 1630.And was burned by the Native Americans in 1676. The fort was replaced by Fort Charles in 1677. Which in turn was destroyed during the Native American massacre of 1689. Then in 1692 Fort William Henery, the first stone fort in New England was built. This lasted only four years. In 1696 it was captured by the French fleet under D'Iberville. Supported on land by a band of several hundred Native Americans under Castine. For the next 30 years the entire peninsula was deserted due to fear of the Native Americans. Then David Dunbar was commissioned to build the fourth and last fort, Fort Frederick in 1729. This fort lasted for 46 years, until it was torn down by the citizens of the town of Bristol in 1775. To keep it out of the hands of the British during the Revolutionary War.

These are the finds form the permission.
#1 biggest spoon bowl ive dug, but probably 1800's. not great a dating spoons yet.
#2 round ball or fishing weight?
#3 jackknife not sure how old but probably not more that 50-75 years.
#4 Chape, im hoping is colonial right?
#5 show buckle frame i believe.
#6 rose head nail? so old right? hand wrought?

Now these are my finds from the little beach, which i assume has been hunted thoroughly. But pulled quite of lot of stuff.

#7 and #8 modern-ish silverware. #8 is a "big ol" spoon
#9 a buddha
#10 a pocket watch. I dont think this one is as old as the one i pulled from big beach around the corner.
#11 button
#12 i have no idea. lead that someone was cutting pieces from?
#13 old toy car
#14 no idea. anybody?
#15 what do they call that. a pour off or something?
#16 I really have no idea. This thing is weird, found together. Probably post this in what is it. If nobody knows here.
#17 is this scrap lead with a hole in it?
#18 one looks like a cuff link, not sure about the other.
#19 encrusted coin. not much left of it. i broke into it.
#20 The smallest target i have ever dug. some brass washer i think
#21 buckles of some sort. are they old? are they horsey stuff? not sure
#22 old school washers?
the rest is various bits and bobs. i dont think any of it is old.

here is a birds eye view of one of the archeological excavations of the village around the fort in the 1960's. (Talk about some cellar holes i would like to detect around.) and just a tiny sampling of stuff they found then.They found 8,000 pipe pieces. The Maine State if kinda slacking if you ask me. I feel like a proper more extensive dig should be done here.

and some thumbnails for full images if you are on a phone.

 

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I check the thumbs up "Like" icon to let you know that I read your post and liked it. I don't know anything about the area, and next to nothing about your finds, but I liked seeing them. Please don't change the style of your posts because some of us don't respond with anything more than a quick note, they are well written and interesting. As I'm sure you knew already.
You may find the artifact photo on p38 of the following booklet interesting. Unfortunately there is nothing to say if this piece was determined to be pre-European contact.

Thanks Sandog! That is a neat booklet on some ancient people. I didn't know there where any Native American's who made bronze/copper weapons/tools/Jewellery until very recently. I just found out about Wisconsin Copper Culture from Centsless Detecting amazing banner find the Copper Culture Sawtooth Spear Point. Pretty cool stuff!
"The Old Copper Complex, also known as the Old Copper Culture, refers to the items made by early inhabitants of the Great Lakes region during a period that spans several thousand years and covers several thousand square miles. The most conclusive evidence suggests that native copper was utilized to produce a wide variety of tools beginning in the Middle Archaic period circa 4,000 BC.
and now you are saying there were more ancient people make that kind of stuff in Kentucky? wow
i use to think all Native American stuff was made out of stone.

 

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This pottery piece is wild. Is that native?

 

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This pottery piece is wild. Is that native?

yes it is pretty cool piece. its a German brown stoneware jug made between 1550-1699 called Bellarmine. The medallions were made separately and applied to the jug before firing. That jug as 3 medallions, each have an Egyptian standing beside the sacred bird ibis. The early jugs often bore the date of manufacture. This one has 1610
You can read more about it on page 16&17 is this PDF link 👉 Pemaquid Lost and Found as well as just a small sample of the other cool stuff they dug up in 1965. everything in that link is only stuff from the dig in 1960's. They found 25,000 artifacts then and 9 cellar holes. There has been 2 more smaller digs since then, but nothing like what i think they should do there.

 

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yes it is pretty cool piece. its a German brown stoneware jug made between 1550-1699 called Bellarmine. The medallions were made separately and applied to the jug before firing. That jug as 3 medallions, each have an Egyptian standing beside the sacred bird ibis. The early jugs often bore the date of manufacture. This one has 1610
You can read more about it on page 16&17 is this PDF link 👉 Pemaquid Lost and Found as well as just a small sample of the other cool stuff they dug up in 1965. everything in that link is only stuff from the dig in 1960's. They found 25,000 artifacts then and 9 cellar holes. There has been 2 more smaller digs since then, but nothing like what i think they should do there.

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Awesome thanks for sharing!