What are they?

[Owise Owera]

I?ve been hunting the same field for years and retrieved numerous items belonging to the inhabitants of this area, upstate N.Y. This time I thought about bringing along a metal detector to make a more thorough search for jewelry and colonial era coins. Sullivan campaigned right along this river, the Susquehanna. I detected the field for quite some time finding nothing. I noticed that the farmer added a few more feet to the edge of the cornfield and thought it a perfect opportunity to search before the other seekers from my area spotted it. These Green things caught my eye and the only explanation I got from a local historian is ?Oh those were dumped here by IBM back in the 40?s?. Okay, well, these were all that I found, clustered together in a two-foot area of soil about 50 yards from the riverbank. I personally can?t believe IBM would drive 30 miles to dump a handful of whatever these are in an open field. Any Ideas?

 

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[rck_1]

Those are most definatly tumbling media

http://www.interplastic.com/html/deburring.htm

 

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[Owise Owera]

Thank you everyone that responded. I've learned quite a bit, since I joined. Give the description and pictures a chance and someone will find the answer. Since this mystery was solved I'll have to go search for another one. My TH partner stumbled onto a supposedly battlefield "private property" no Gov't involved, and found several buttons, an ax head, and a coin that he said is a half cent but the date was before the war? so maybe he stumbled onto something. Well happy hunting my friends and I hope to be talking with you in the near future.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I dug this up out of the archives. Did we get this one right?

 

[aka da Prof]

must have, BCH; here's a new link to ceramic tumbling media--- http://www.google.com/products/cata...8&ei=L78aT_q2LcnOmAeLzqnmBg&ved=0CBcQ8wIwBA#p I have seen the small ones in the picture on digs, never knew what they were. Also a few months ago Actuly Treed posted --'Re: Pyramid Shaped Gamepiece or...' they might have the same purpose ( could not find the photo) --da Prof

 

[mr bone]

agree it is tumbling media seen it before

 

[wells]

YOU can see these on the t v program How It's Made all the time . There in a big drum with stamped metal parts and either tumbled or vibrated to deburr the metal parts. There made of ceramic and come in various colors and are uaually coned shaped.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

OK I see they are most definitely tumbling media but why do they flouresce? (spell check)

Here is a link about the clock factory workers I saw on TV. They were using radioactive radium as late as 1965. http://www.roger-russell.com/jeffers/radiumdials.htm


The OP says they were dumped in the 40's so they are not Tritium.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I think the OP tested it for radio-activity. Hope the old surplus detector was working properly. So while its not Tritium, it may be one of the other things that glow in the dark. Illegal dumping always makes me suspicious.



http://chemistry.about.com/od/glowingprojects/tp/List-Of-Things-That-Glow-In-The-Dark.htm

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

must have, BCH; here's a new link to ceramic tumbling media--- http://www.google.com/products/cata...8&ei=L78aT_q2LcnOmAeLzqnmBg&ved=0CBcQ8wIwBA#p I have seen the small ones in the picture on digs, never knew what they were. Also a few months ago Actuly Treed posted --'Re: Pyramid Shaped Gamepiece or...' they might have the same purpose ( could not find the photo) --da Prof

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,420507.0.html

 

[baywalker]

Same thing I use for tumbling coins from harbor fright only smaller resen media.

Jonnie

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Same thing I use for tumbling coins from harbor fright only smaller resen media.

Jonnie

Do they shine in the dark?