Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
New member
[attachment 190341 A1.jpg]
[size=x-large]Here's some of the better finds from the mid 17 hundreds farm house. There's a musket trigger guard, it has a place for a sling swivel so I'm calling it a military musket. Certainly it's old. Also found most of the butt plate about a foot away from it.[/size]
[attachment 190342 A2.jpg]
[size=x-large]Got some coins. Three Indian head pennies from the late 1800 hundreds, as well as a V nickle from the 1800 hundreds. Gotta be some silver there somewhere, maybe a gold coin. The place is about three hundred acres and the care taker told me of another old foundation over in the woods about a quarter mile. I'll have to look for that for sure.[/size]
[attachment 190344 ring.jpg]
[size=x-large]Unfortunately the ring (which really got my attention when I first saw it) was only gold plated. I could tell when I picked up it was too light to be of any serious gold content...oh well, cheap thrills.[/size]
[attachment 190343 A3.jpg]
[attachment 190345 Ham.jpg]
[size=x-large]This was interesting. There was an old smoke house, stone foundation. Inside a butchering table and a huge amount of salt under the table. You could see where deer had been going in to get the salt. I thought all this was pretty cool and then I look up and saw about fifteen smoked Virginia hams hanging in a wired box. The hams had been hanging there for so long they were mummified, probably been there fifty years or better. The picture only shows a few of them. Since I was there the smoke house has been pushed over and will be removed. Thanks for looking, Vernon[/size]
[size=x-large]Here's some of the better finds from the mid 17 hundreds farm house. There's a musket trigger guard, it has a place for a sling swivel so I'm calling it a military musket. Certainly it's old. Also found most of the butt plate about a foot away from it.[/size]
[attachment 190342 A2.jpg]
[size=x-large]Got some coins. Three Indian head pennies from the late 1800 hundreds, as well as a V nickle from the 1800 hundreds. Gotta be some silver there somewhere, maybe a gold coin. The place is about three hundred acres and the care taker told me of another old foundation over in the woods about a quarter mile. I'll have to look for that for sure.[/size]
[attachment 190344 ring.jpg]
[size=x-large]Unfortunately the ring (which really got my attention when I first saw it) was only gold plated. I could tell when I picked up it was too light to be of any serious gold content...oh well, cheap thrills.[/size]
[attachment 190343 A3.jpg]
[attachment 190345 Ham.jpg]
[size=x-large]This was interesting. There was an old smoke house, stone foundation. Inside a butchering table and a huge amount of salt under the table. You could see where deer had been going in to get the salt. I thought all this was pretty cool and then I look up and saw about fifteen smoked Virginia hams hanging in a wired box. The hams had been hanging there for so long they were mummified, probably been there fifty years or better. The picture only shows a few of them. Since I was there the smoke house has been pushed over and will be removed. Thanks for looking, Vernon[/size]