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  1. J

    What Do I Have Here?

    Curious as to any ideas or opinions on this piece? Found at an 1850s to 19-teens site. Has that “good, old” patina on it so I know it has some age to it. Completely brass or similar metallurgy. What are some thoughts on this one? Horse tack?
  2. J

    Nice First Hunt At a New Site and an Archaic Period Artifact

    Had a good early Saturday morning hunt. Still testing out a few homesite locations from the maps I am building of my area. Site proved to have some older items with some early teens stuff sprinkled over top, all confirming my research. Having worked the site and becoming more familiar with it I...
  3. J

    Nice Saturday Morning Hunt

    Beautiful Saturday morning to be out detecting. Didn’t come up with anything too spectacular but did manage to pop out a Civil War General Service Eagle in pretty good shape. I had just finished building an 1850-1860’s map for my area as there are none and wanted to test it out. I picked a...
  4. J

    Good Weekend Hunt

    Not a lot of museum pieces but did manage to dig up enough to fill up the finds board. The hat badge is a US Postal Service that has Fresno California on it. Long ways from home. The large crotal bell came very late in the day but was a beauty right out of the ground. Second largest complete...
  5. J

    Museum Display

    After much contemplation I recently agreed to display my metal detecting finds in my local museum. I am currently displaying 3 different homesites. They are all from the mid 1850s through the early 1900s, rarely extending past the 19-teens. These homesites will be rotated in and out every 6...
  6. J

    Any ideas?

    I have searched and searched but have not been able to come up with what this could have been. Any ideas would be welcomed. Found on an 1860s-1870s site. I found this badge/medallion type piece along with two hooks from a civil war knapsack and three different period eagle buttons. Very few...
  7. J

    Double Seated Day

    Went out for a full 8 hour hunt with a couple of friends. We hit several homesites in the farm fields and dug a ton of targets. Tough relic day but one buddy managed a few good relics, one being a very cool bridal rosette with an horseshoe and the words good luck on it. He also found a likely...
  8. J

    Medallion

    Hopefully I’m posting in the right area. Found this medallion on a site that produced a couple Civil War Eagle buttons and two buckles to a knapsack. Really no other targets to mention or to give any more context. No writing, marks or other motifs. Appears to depict a woman in a dress...
  9. J

    What do I have?

    I am very new to native artifacts so my knowledge base is pretty low. I do have an idea of what this may be but I’d like some informed opinions from folks in the know on this type of stuff. Found in a farm field in Southern Iowa/Northern Missouri. Sandstone/Soapstone. Appears to have been...
  10. J

    Just my 2Cents…

    From the time I began to get into metal detecting one of the coins I desired to find the most was the 2center. I think they are one of the best looking coins they have ever designed. After four years, I finally got to unearth this beauty. Enjoy the pictures and thanks for looking!
  11. J

    Second Ever Big Silver

    Cleaning out a site that had occupation until the 1970s but was originally settled in the 1850s. Goal is to clean this site of all the modern foil and aluminum and get down to the good old stuff. I had dug well over sixty targets and decided my next would be the last for the night. Came across...
  12. J

    Kettle Points/Tinklers or Old House Flashing ???

    Posted in another forum and got crickets for responses. It amazes me how a person can find a wheat penny or a merc in a tot lot and it garners multiple comments and a multitude of inputs but when you post potential relics with actual intentions of learning and getting valuable opinions on them...
  13. J

    Button Information

    Im not lobbying for find of the year by no means here as I’m sure the majority of you find these buttons very commonly and are encyclopedias in regards to information about them. I’m posting for guys/gals like me that just don’t find them that often in our areas or on our sites. I have found...
  14. J

    History Never Dies

    House sites from the mid 1850s aren’t an easy thing to come by or research in my area of the Midwest. There were certainly people homesteading here in this time frame but unfortunately mapping is not available and the records can be tough to sort through. Through genealogy research and census...
  15. J

    10 Escados Counterfeit Coin/Game Token

    Curious if anyone has come across one of these detecting? Pretty interesting piece of history. Pretty interesting article in Coin Week about it and other variations. https://coinweek.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-contemporary-counterfeit-coins-from-the-reign-of-queen-isabel-ii/ Thanks...
  16. J

    2024 Year End Wrap Up

    Dedicating much more time to researching older sites, 2024 turned out to be a fruitful year for relics. Subsequently I had a down year in the coin department. I did not dig one silver coin but the coins that I did unearth were predominantly 1800s, excluding a handful of wheat cents. My first...
  17. J

    Past Few Hunt Results To End The Year

    Here are the results from my past 3 or 4 detections. Nothing terribly newsworthy but interesting nonetheless as always! There are some overall shots and a couple highlights from each hunt. This is my first post on this site so hopefully it’s not a photo overload! Thanks for looking and best...
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