Vhoov
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I went back to the swimming hole sifting sand through classifiers like I did last summer...it was all posted here at the time in multiple posts. It produced 7 silvers, about 50 dollars in clad, silver jewelry, and two gold rings. No detector.
Some history behind this place.... it was a rock quarry at one point and also a grist mill in the 1800s. At the library the only stuff I could find was references to the quarry and that the granite grinding wheel was found when it was being turned into a park. This was in a newspaper clipping from 1954 I think. They turned the wheel into a picnic table.
Well, I had to get through a years worth of gravel and trash since last summer to get down to the old layer....the 1800s layer. This is where I left off last year and unfortunately dont think I'll be able to go much further.
I found the old gear that was not found when the stone wheel was found. Its 20 inches wide and 5 inches thick. Solid cast iron. Should I have left it? I'm not going to do a thing with it....but it's a piece of history being over 120 years old.
Didn't want to just leave it there homeless....so I rolled it very slowly to my truck. Two person lift required.
Anyway, on the way to that layer I found a sterling ring that was deposited since last summer. It used to be gold plated.
Everything else I found .....
Old square nails/grist mill hardware top right. Clad bottom right. Sharp glass and other crap also removed from the water supply.
Some history behind this place.... it was a rock quarry at one point and also a grist mill in the 1800s. At the library the only stuff I could find was references to the quarry and that the granite grinding wheel was found when it was being turned into a park. This was in a newspaper clipping from 1954 I think. They turned the wheel into a picnic table.
Well, I had to get through a years worth of gravel and trash since last summer to get down to the old layer....the 1800s layer. This is where I left off last year and unfortunately dont think I'll be able to go much further.
I found the old gear that was not found when the stone wheel was found. Its 20 inches wide and 5 inches thick. Solid cast iron. Should I have left it? I'm not going to do a thing with it....but it's a piece of history being over 120 years old.
Didn't want to just leave it there homeless....so I rolled it very slowly to my truck. Two person lift required.
Anyway, on the way to that layer I found a sterling ring that was deposited since last summer. It used to be gold plated.
Everything else I found .....
Old square nails/grist mill hardware top right. Clad bottom right. Sharp glass and other crap also removed from the water supply.
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