Managed to get back to the spot last evening--after it started raining as I left work and I waited it out as it poured down for half an hour or so. Geared up as the last drops were falling and walked over. Turned on the machine and started scanning a new path down the slope. About five feet after I started, interesting signal. Tiny spoon! Early American coke spoon? Thought baby spoon at first but later I'm wondering if there were snuff spoons. It wasn't broken when I dug it out of the hole but it was slightly bent and, without thinking, I went to straighten it. SNAP! Hopefully I can teach myself not to do that. This was found about 50 feet NE of coin central. Length: 2 /2", width of bowl: 1/2", length of bowl (as snapped off): 3/4".
Cleaned up the hole and worked my way further down. Not far from a tree, got a deep, iffy signal that read fairly much like a nickel. Nope. Turned out to be the bent, grooved, lead piece at the bottom left. Any idea what that was from? I've never found, or seen, anything like it.
Possibly in the same hole, I found, and scratched, the big piece of white stone. It doesn't look at all like any other rocks I've found in this location, or in this area in general, so I was wondering if is just a random rock or it might have been the first stage of a pre-form of something or the remains of something that was broken. While I'm at it, the rectangular, slate-like, broken-nail-shaped stone to the right of it (not the best picture of it) seemed out of place as well but I couldn't think of any possible usage for that at all. Migrating rock?
Anyhow, worked my way over from the tree towards where a large stump had been that I use to mark the coin-finds location. Thought I'd scan the actual ground/chips where the stump had been. Barely hit the edge of it when I got an unusual, kind of trashy signal. Not that awful deep. First found the front of a cufflink with traces of gilding on the face. Then rescanned the hole and found the back of the cufflink. Didn't notice until I was taking pics this morning that the the gilding on the back of the front-piece is still intact. And didn't notice until I saw the pics I'd taken that there's what is presumably what is a maker's mark, two interlocked diamond shapes, on the the reverse of the front-piece. Length of front-piece: 3/4", width of front-piece: 3/8", length of back-piece: 9/16", width of back-piece: 7/16". Oh, the post on the front-piece is triangular shaped (it doesn't show in the photos).
Then I used some broken sticks to start marking off the grid-pattern I was going to run over the location where I'd previously found the five old coins and started working it. Don't remember the timing of it but I eventually found the corroded button showing on the top right. Approx. dia.: 3/4".
Not much else in that spot. But I did notice with the wet ground there are a lot more signals, mainly iron (of which I only dug a few this time) than the last time I'd been there. It's going to take a while to clear even that small location. I'm thinking at this point that Iron Patch is probably correct and there was a building here at some point--though I'm still not thinking a "home"--yet.
Later, after I'd gridded most of it and it was getting late, I decided to take a last random run off in another direction. Head catywamus down the slope toward the old road and, on the other side of the tree where I'd found the bent lead doohicky, got a fairly shallow low-conductivity signal that was bouncing around a good bit. That turned out to be the button with the 6 raised bumps on it. I've seen these posted(?) before, associated with colonial sites, I think. Dia.: 9/16"
Wandered around a bit more and found the .22 case and the flat copper washer. (What were these used for? That's at least the 2nd one I've found now.) Both fairly shallow.
About then my sweetheart phoned and I realized how late it was so I wrapped it up pretty quickly and headed home.
All the finds (minus one pulltab):
[attachment 95999 080623_all_8204.JPG]
All the known good bits:
[attachment 96000 080623_goodies_front_8206.JPG]
And flipped over:
[attachment 96001 080623_goodies_back_8207.JPG]
Cuff-link front:
[attachment 96003 080623_cuff-front_8209.JPG]
Cuff-link back:
[attachment 96004 080623_cuff-back_8210.JPG]
Any IDs appreciated.
Cleaned up the hole and worked my way further down. Not far from a tree, got a deep, iffy signal that read fairly much like a nickel. Nope. Turned out to be the bent, grooved, lead piece at the bottom left. Any idea what that was from? I've never found, or seen, anything like it.
Possibly in the same hole, I found, and scratched, the big piece of white stone. It doesn't look at all like any other rocks I've found in this location, or in this area in general, so I was wondering if is just a random rock or it might have been the first stage of a pre-form of something or the remains of something that was broken. While I'm at it, the rectangular, slate-like, broken-nail-shaped stone to the right of it (not the best picture of it) seemed out of place as well but I couldn't think of any possible usage for that at all. Migrating rock?
Anyhow, worked my way over from the tree towards where a large stump had been that I use to mark the coin-finds location. Thought I'd scan the actual ground/chips where the stump had been. Barely hit the edge of it when I got an unusual, kind of trashy signal. Not that awful deep. First found the front of a cufflink with traces of gilding on the face. Then rescanned the hole and found the back of the cufflink. Didn't notice until I was taking pics this morning that the the gilding on the back of the front-piece is still intact. And didn't notice until I saw the pics I'd taken that there's what is presumably what is a maker's mark, two interlocked diamond shapes, on the the reverse of the front-piece. Length of front-piece: 3/4", width of front-piece: 3/8", length of back-piece: 9/16", width of back-piece: 7/16". Oh, the post on the front-piece is triangular shaped (it doesn't show in the photos).
Then I used some broken sticks to start marking off the grid-pattern I was going to run over the location where I'd previously found the five old coins and started working it. Don't remember the timing of it but I eventually found the corroded button showing on the top right. Approx. dia.: 3/4".
Not much else in that spot. But I did notice with the wet ground there are a lot more signals, mainly iron (of which I only dug a few this time) than the last time I'd been there. It's going to take a while to clear even that small location. I'm thinking at this point that Iron Patch is probably correct and there was a building here at some point--though I'm still not thinking a "home"--yet.
Later, after I'd gridded most of it and it was getting late, I decided to take a last random run off in another direction. Head catywamus down the slope toward the old road and, on the other side of the tree where I'd found the bent lead doohicky, got a fairly shallow low-conductivity signal that was bouncing around a good bit. That turned out to be the button with the 6 raised bumps on it. I've seen these posted(?) before, associated with colonial sites, I think. Dia.: 9/16"
Wandered around a bit more and found the .22 case and the flat copper washer. (What were these used for? That's at least the 2nd one I've found now.) Both fairly shallow.
About then my sweetheart phoned and I realized how late it was so I wrapped it up pretty quickly and headed home.
All the finds (minus one pulltab):
[attachment 95999 080623_all_8204.JPG]
All the known good bits:
[attachment 96000 080623_goodies_front_8206.JPG]
And flipped over:
[attachment 96001 080623_goodies_back_8207.JPG]
Cuff-link front:
[attachment 96003 080623_cuff-front_8209.JPG]
Cuff-link back:
[attachment 96004 080623_cuff-back_8210.JPG]
Any IDs appreciated.
