Week end hunt.

[John 'n' W.Va]

I MD'ed two places. One was a demo-ed house and the other was the dirt from houses they demo-ed already. They used the top soil for the park and walk ways alone the new road being built in town. It is all a real mix with old and new. That is what you will see in these pictures. Here is the whole mess.

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This is after I cleaned up the relic's? Good luck charm, pocket watch, an old creamery cap and always an old gas valve. etc.....I also find 5 to 10 of these miner's brass tags a year.

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These are the coins and the marbles I eye along the way. The one isn't a musket ball, it is a clay marble. I find quite a few every year, many times in the hole with a coin. Two IH. a 1906 and a 1890. Wheat's are:1918, 1928, 1935, 1940,1940, 1949, 1955,1958 and a bus token. also a flattened nickel. Can't read the date.

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I can't figure out what this is? The hinge still works, but won't close because it is misshaped.

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This lapel pin? is heavy. The straight pin is still on the back. It looks like there was something in the center.

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It is getting there.

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[dave5710]

Looks like you have been pretty busy. You have found alot of good stuff and your landscape photo is awesome!!

 

[jim tn]

Nice, pile of finds. We spent nearly two year's in Fairmont many year's ago and I still have some very fond memories of fishing the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomic. HH jim tn

 

[iskirkra]

That is some interesting stuff, glad you posted your finds. Let us know when you find out what that hinged thing is.

 

[dahut]

a compass case, John.

Neat finds and I love to see all those Wheats. Maybe a silver or two will surface.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

a compass case, John.

Neat finds and I love to see all those Wheats. Maybe a silver or two will surface.

I thought it was a lensatic compass. It must have been a nice one in it's day.
In my area, if you get a coin in the 1800's it is a good day, but I do love to see silver.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

Nice, pile of finds. We spent nearly two year's in Fairmont many year's ago and I still have some very fond memories of fishing the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomic. HH jim tn

I have a lot of fond memories of that area also. I have done a lot of caving in that area. My grandfather had a camp on the North Fork in site of Seneca Rock.

 

[woodwizard]

ya definitely dug alot of holes-got some great finds for your effort

 

[metalfoot]

Yea I vote for a compass as the thing with hinges that was deformed.