DownNDirty
Bronze Member
(Not Treasurenet lol)
Last Saturday I headed back to my go-to colonial site for more digging and sifting. I didn't exactly knock it out of the park but I did find a few interesting relics from the 18th century.
The process that I learned from Brad (Outdooradv) for sifting is basically 1)dig; 2)sift; 3)pull nails from the sift pile and hole with a magnet; 4) run the coil over the sift pile, hole and hole wall; and 5) repeat-many times. While detecting the wall during one of countless rounds of the process I picked up a mid-50s signal in the wall. A little digging and out popped this pewter civilian coat button with a flower pattern
On the pottery side I found more shards of Staffordshire combed slipware. Two decent-sized shards fit together and one has an embossed letter "P" on it. Hopefully I will find more of this piece; the initials are probably that of the potter or the person the piece was made for.
When I was cleaning my finds the next day I realized that the magnet had picked up a fish hook-a first for me.
My first thought was that it was a modern hook. However, it was several inches deep in the middle of finds that were all from the 18th century-no modern stuff. Also, the hook has no eye. I did some research and found that hooks made in the 18th century did not have eyes and were all snelled to the line.
So this is a fish hook from the 1700s; a pretty cool find to me.
In the sift file the AT Pro found this tiny button that once held a stone (probably cut glass)
Two other finds were a bell "clapper" and an unidentified relic that was originally shaped like a miniature stirrup. Any ideas about the second one?
Here are my finds for the day
That site is addictive-I'm sure I will be back before long.
Last Saturday I headed back to my go-to colonial site for more digging and sifting. I didn't exactly knock it out of the park but I did find a few interesting relics from the 18th century.
The process that I learned from Brad (Outdooradv) for sifting is basically 1)dig; 2)sift; 3)pull nails from the sift pile and hole with a magnet; 4) run the coil over the sift pile, hole and hole wall; and 5) repeat-many times. While detecting the wall during one of countless rounds of the process I picked up a mid-50s signal in the wall. A little digging and out popped this pewter civilian coat button with a flower pattern
On the pottery side I found more shards of Staffordshire combed slipware. Two decent-sized shards fit together and one has an embossed letter "P" on it. Hopefully I will find more of this piece; the initials are probably that of the potter or the person the piece was made for.
When I was cleaning my finds the next day I realized that the magnet had picked up a fish hook-a first for me.
My first thought was that it was a modern hook. However, it was several inches deep in the middle of finds that were all from the 18th century-no modern stuff. Also, the hook has no eye. I did some research and found that hooks made in the 18th century did not have eyes and were all snelled to the line.
So this is a fish hook from the 1700s; a pretty cool find to me.
In the sift file the AT Pro found this tiny button that once held a stone (probably cut glass)
Two other finds were a bell "clapper" and an unidentified relic that was originally shaped like a miniature stirrup. Any ideas about the second one?
Here are my finds for the day
That site is addictive-I'm sure I will be back before long.
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The 250lb one works great, but come on... more power is always better. I'll probably be stuck to my truck bed when I arrive on site and I wont be able to take it with me.
