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holy moly!!! what a great hunt! jeff

I was thinking tombac, but that appears 200-300 years after this brooch was likely made. I'm leaning more towards low grade silver.

Yeah, I'm old enough to have watched the first runs of the series, along with Happy Days before that. But if you want to talk age by TV show, how...

Fingers crossed, Chris! You folks still have lots of brewing gong on! Are you old enough to remember Lavern and Shirley? :lol:

The lighting on this pic makes it look almost iron, which it is not. I was thinking some kind of silver because, around here, tombac doesn't come...

A friend was looking at the black glass button and noticed a design on it. I used my digital microscope to capture the image. It looks like a flower,...

Although I can't say for sure just by looking at one picture, I'm thinking two possibilities: 1. Some version of arsenic bronze or, 2. A...

That's some amazing info! Looking at the photo it's difficult at best to judge what material it's made of. Even looking at the photos in the book...

WE have been hunting this site for about 10 years now. But, this is the first time the farmer has deep plowed it, so it is like a new site.

You're so luck to have a place to go so close to home!! Congrats.

OMG!!!! I don't know what to think :lol: Thanks so much for the info, Dave!! I guess I have to show a museum! What I was doing was writing a piece...

Drew, here are some reference pics on your brooch. After thinking about it for a bit, I think you have made a significant archeological find. It's...

This is going to blow your mind, but ALL my reference books put that brooch 13th and 14th century! I've found several but NONE as nice as yours! ...

That would be sooo cool! Thanks, Chris! You know, as a kid I remember listening to Moondog The Viking on 6th ave. He was a blind musician who played...

That's a GREAT spot you have there!

If I don't find anything else this year it will still be my best in a long time!

Those are some amazing finds! I haven't found any one of those yet. :( Hope the luch holds out for the rest of the year-congrats!

Probably be made of pot metal or plastic the way our economy is going! :shocked03:

After reading Digger's response, I will say it is clearly a modern reproduction Drew and you don't want it anymore. It's just wasting good space in...

Here's my 2 cents worth. I did some searching online and found countless medieval ring brooches and cloak pins that look nearly identical, although...

What an amazing hunt! I would be over the moon with results like that. I would pound that site! :yes: :congrats:

That was 3 hours well spent !

YOU KILLED IT!!! WOW!! ​You got a bit of everything in that hunt!!:perfect10:

Wow awesome finds!!!

That display was collected in only four years, WOW. amazing Digs. Welcome to the forum and I'm looking forward to see what you find this year. If...

Last summer I did happen to stumble upon a very small, probably overnight, Union cavalry camp in my town, gave up a few bullets, Gardners, some...

I wish it were dirtfishing day here but not even the real troopers would go out today. It was -10 with a -50 windchill last night...right now its 0....

The display cases are old printers trays, you can get them from ETSY, not bad on price. Well it's Saturday again...that must mean it's dirtfishing...