paleomaxx
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A few weeks back I found these ruins with the late 1800's bottle fragments scattered about and today I finally went back to take photos of the ruins and do a cursory sweep with the detector to see how it was looking.
You can see they just go on an on. Mostly retaining walls for the hill, but there are several building footprints and this was obviously a major industrial site in the 1800's. There are tons of iron slag fragment strewn about too, so detecting may end up being impossible in certain areas.
I mostly detected around where the bottle fragments were concentrated. There were a few more interesting ones that turned up including a huge neck and the weird pinkish piece with a cone extending out. Almost looks like lab glassware; a condenser or distillation tube.
There were a few non-ferrous targets, but it was very difficult going with the iron slag so it seems that only the largest or shallowest brass pieces are going to turn up.
The ones that do turn up are not bad targets though: two lock plates, a decorative brass hinge of some sort, and a very cute little buckle. It almost looks like it has 1856 stamped in it too. The pipe stem was an unusual find, but I was wondering if anyone recognized the maker's mark on the two white ceramic pieces.
The small pewter piece says "Moet & Chandon" and appears to be the cap from a campaign bottle. I'll definitely be going back once the weeds die down a little more; especially since I found the bottle pit where all of these fragments washed out of. It would be nice to find some whole specimens for the collection.
Thanks for looking and until next time!
You can see they just go on an on. Mostly retaining walls for the hill, but there are several building footprints and this was obviously a major industrial site in the 1800's. There are tons of iron slag fragment strewn about too, so detecting may end up being impossible in certain areas.
I mostly detected around where the bottle fragments were concentrated. There were a few more interesting ones that turned up including a huge neck and the weird pinkish piece with a cone extending out. Almost looks like lab glassware; a condenser or distillation tube.
There were a few non-ferrous targets, but it was very difficult going with the iron slag so it seems that only the largest or shallowest brass pieces are going to turn up.
The ones that do turn up are not bad targets though: two lock plates, a decorative brass hinge of some sort, and a very cute little buckle. It almost looks like it has 1856 stamped in it too. The pipe stem was an unusual find, but I was wondering if anyone recognized the maker's mark on the two white ceramic pieces.
The small pewter piece says "Moet & Chandon" and appears to be the cap from a campaign bottle. I'll definitely be going back once the weeds die down a little more; especially since I found the bottle pit where all of these fragments washed out of. It would be nice to find some whole specimens for the collection.
Thanks for looking and until next time!
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