Typical junk for a newbie....Whatsit?

[tapwater]

It was good practice for the first time out of my yard. The lower right item looked like a rifle bolt handle until it came out. It's copper or brass, looks like it had a dish or pan shape. Too small and short handled for a melting pot. Any ideas?

 

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[GL]

Toy rifle part, melted?

Nice castor!

 

[Diggerbarns]

The castor is a piano wheel.The iron V is a peice of coal stove grate,and the handle whatzit is a window sash lock.My opinions plus a dollar will buy a small coffee

 

[ghost_rider]

Agreed, think you found the old burn/ trash pit. Some people used to burn garbage then bury it.

 

[Oroblanco]

Window sash lock?

 

[tapwater]

I think a sash lock is probably correct. I was mulling over the thought of maybe a latch handle from an icebox. Coal grate! Knew I'd seen that shape before. At least I found something on my very first time out. It's an old farmsite that was burned, buried, smoothed and seeded. Stuff is deeeeep.
Thanks for the input, folks.

 

[Oroblanco]

Tapwater - don't get discouraged if you find some objects which are well, we can refer to them as "reliques" - some of them actually sell for cash in the right market, like flea markets. One of my most surprising finds was an item that I nearly gave up on twice while digging it up, even after I got the surface of it exposed - I took one look at it and thought "Oh boy, I have found a long-lost toilet bowl float ball!" I had to dig two feet down to get this and felt pretty danged dumb for a moment, then pulled it out of the hole and was scratching my head wondering what in heck it was. It had a casting seam on it and a broken off piece of straight iron sticking out of one end of it.

My second thought was that it must be half of a dumb-bell. However one side of this ball was dented and flattened, like a cannonball that has struck something solid, but if that was what it is, what in heck is the iron thing sticking out? Well it took several months to finally get an expert opinion as to what it was, and now it is one of my most prized finds - for it is one half of a Bar-shot, and I was informed that this particular one is of Dutch origins, and dates to the first half of the 1600s! This from a farmer's field, where the local historians claim the first "European" settlers arrived after the Revolutionary war. In my own research I found that the local historical society was off by at least a half-century (Brit settlers had been there since the 1740s, French incursions dated back to the 1600s etc) and that the place was likely a site of a skirmish in the so-called "Beaver wars" - a century long war for control of the fur trade between various Amerindian tribes, being supplied and armed by the Dutch, French, English, Swedes even the Spanish and Portuguese were involved. So the "moral of the story" is you really never know what you will dig up in your next sweep, and most areas have considerably more history than what we find in our history books.

Good luck and good hunting, I hope you find the treasures that you seek.
your friend,
Oroblanco

 

[UncleVinnys]

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