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ok so im new at this and to make it quick and simple i found a big hunk of metal with a tooth imprint and something else that looks funny ,beside it .it looks like a molted piece of silver very heavy but soft , but not sure why it would have a tooth imprint not the whole tooth , a molar at that . but we are at a place that is consistant with old 1900's memorabilia there is a huge hole full of old mason jars with the milk glass lids i found blue bottle out the yang . and an old hand pump but this is way stange .well here is a pic someone please tell me what i got here ,thanks stacey

hope its not to blurry if you need more detailed ones be glad to send them on , i also have this wierd gear thing that was next to it doubt it has anything to do with one another .

Bottom item looks like a shotgun slug. Probably chewed by a grazing animal , horse maybe, cows swallow metal horses spit it out not sure about deer. Somtimes civil war bullets are found that were chewed by soilders. I think some of those were chewed by animals also but you will never convince a civil war bullet owner of that.

My dad claims it was a common practice for him to chew lead when he was a kid.

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MXT Pro, 9.5" Stock, 5.3", Super 12", 10" D2, Sunray DX-1 pinpointer probe. North Central Missouri, USA.

I found quite a few of those thin brass gears myself. I wonder what they were used for...

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Garrett ACE 250. "Goody getter"

thank guys well im not real sure either but did find out that it is silver and weighs alot to scared to clean it really ! but it is the size of a quarter and thick but im sure it was a bullet that hit something and then a cow chewed on it LOL . im convinced . I,m also gonna ask another question i have just started doing this and i have run across alot of buried wire next to trees i suspect it was probably a dead animal and the wire was to keep something from digging it up , and on another note i dug a hole 6ft deep and 6ft wide full of bottles and masons depression glass 98% broken when i got to the bottom of it all there were two desentagrated boots and an old hair comb a whole clay ink bottle and bones of some nature i did find a small bracelet silver as well it kinda freaked me out so i kicked everything back in a covered it up. now thinking it might be the remains or someone or something , my old man says they probably buried a goat and just decided to make that there trash pit LOL i hope so . an why would you burn trash and what nots right next to your water supply ? (the 1900's hand pump). sorry for the overload of questions but thanks for the replys.

and the gears my only idea would be old wooden clocks maybe since the wood is rotten the gears are the only thing left.

I was thinking clock parts on the gears as well. The other piece looks to have several spoon shaped tabs? on the left side as she sits. There is a row of them across the front of the object. Maybe flower pedals? I wonder if it wasn't a piece of jewelry that got mangled or hammered by something or somebody.

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Dave
Central Illinois
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Peoria Area Treasure Hunters
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its a shame if it was but i could kinda see that ! huh well i know silver was precious in the old days so maybe someone did hammer it down melt it or whatever and was gonna use it for bullets or ?

The tooth part does look ike a rose... I think you're onto something.
What's the diameter of the gear? Looks to me to be part of a hand-cranked winch.

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it does look alot like a rose hummm. the diameter of the gear is the same as a quarter very small. im thinking pocket watch maybe since those were pretty common

Boat winch gear...

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Looks like a clock gear and a bullet, it has rifling on it so probably black powder.
I find alot of them, always hoping they are civil war because of the size.
Once a bullet gets a little older it starts to turn white, usually,, although I have found a few spencers that turned other colors.


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