Hit the farm, interesting finds

[bunker314]

Hello All,
Went to an old homestead in Alabama this past weekend. Had to bush-hog the area first to get to it. Found some farming implements and a lot of old nails. Three cigarette lighters which surprised me. Only one coin, a 1918 Buff nickel. (rang up at 14-15) I have posted some pix of the finds. 35-39 sounds were everywhere. A lot of old cans and nails. A couple of items I am not sure about. One appears to be a scabbard tip of some sort and a drawer pull? The round dist with lines on it is truly a mystery. Any ideas are welcome. It seems to be copper. It rang up in the 31-35 range if I recall. Couldn't see a thing on it till I rinsed it off. The harmonica reed was found down here in the Tampa Bay area. That was a shocker when I saw it. Was expecting a penny at 34.
Thanks for looking
HH

 

[reltolbert]

You have a lot of interesting finds there. A good variety. Congratulations.

Regis

 

[kschae4]

Nice hunt there, Bunky. A potpourri of finds. Maybe a light film of olive or baby oil on the disc will bring out some detail? Was there any recent rain to ease that hard crimson clay during recovery ? I think your pictures always seem to come out well. Do you enable macros on every picture ?

 

[bunker314]

Hey kschae4,
Thanks, I did put some olive oil on it after the pix. I don't use macro all the time but I do run them through Photo Shop to adjust them a bit. They have had zero rain in Wedowee Alabama for about a month and a half at least. Ground was as hard as cement. Thought about taking the tractor back and disc out there and roughing up the ground a bit. I will hit it again in October. The scabbard turns out to be an old fountain pen top. The swirling disk could be a wick holder for a oil lamp or a drawer pull. Still have no idea about the light colored disk.
HH
Bunker

 

[Goldstrike]

Interesting finds! the ground never ceases to amaze me as it gives up unusual and hard to identify objects!! What is the disc made of?

 

[bunker314]

Thanks Goldstrike, love finding those relics. I believe that the disk is made of copper. As I recall, it rang up around 35.
HH

 

[kschae4]

Hey Bunky, sure sounded like tough digging. We've just received a whole lotta rain here in central jersey on up to NYC. Should help the weekend hunting big time.
Glad you've got that 'bama site to search. I had only wished that I was into detecting in the late 70's when as a contractor for a petroleum company, we looked for coal & lignite down in SE Alabama. We had landowner permission to run a probe beneath the water table (140 ft approx). A drilling team would do their thing so while waiting for the hole to be ready, we had like a1/2 hour down time between each drilled hole,which gave me the chance to scan the plowed under fields for arrowheads. As I look back now, those old slave shacks and out buildings would've been SO promising for a md'er !..If only I could get back there now......
I'll check into photo shop,thanks!

 

[bunker314]

Hey kschae4, Good luck with this weekends hunting. The folks that I stay with when I am there are lining up other hunts for me as well. Sweet!!! Can only imagine what it would have been like in the 70's. A lot of stuff has been found between then and now. Although they say that 90% is still in the ground, masked one way or the other. Have to fly this weekend but will hit it hard again next week.
Look forward to seeing your finds.

 

[kschae4]

Bunky - fly safe and we'll see what cool finds the weekend has in store for all of us !