MangoAve
05-09-2015, 11:23 PM
Still for some reason I haven't been digging up coins for the last few hunts. The coil has been put over a bunch of relics, tho. Today I went to a few cellar holes at the other end of an old road. It gave me a chance to try out new pants which work well for briers. I was hoping these spots being further in the woods that they wouldn't be hit or hit as hard. Wrong! The first one I pulled up a plate. Maybe someone will verify as another clock gear guide plate, even tho the holes in this one are not a distinguished design. i went down the hill a bit to see the rock wall in immaculate shape, somewhere near where the bank of the old stream. For some reason, tho, the area between these walls didn't have any random iron (or any signals for that matter) and iron only came back as soon as I went back west over the wall which enclosed the yard.
I went down the road to hit the next site. The large tree by the wall opening had grown around some iron piece. I kept moving around the site trying to get some good signals but it was almost every spot I checked I would come upon a predug hole. I got a mid 60 reading (like a zincoln) by these rocks right behind the cellar. I moved the rock to try and find the item, and it dropped. Oops.... I found the well which was covered up by these rocks. There were a lot of different areas sectioned off by the stone walls. It looks like new hiking trails were put thru the area. One predug hole I got a target. They must have missed it. It was only the jacket to a round. The lead inside was deteriorated.
The next hole I hit was the one I tried twice over the winter but the snow hindered any hunting. Omg this time it was such a short walk being no snow on the ground. The luck didn't come right away. I was getting cans by this massive oak tree...cuz it was near the hiking trail. Near the hole tho I pulled up my first lamp part. I got a big iron buckle. What i assumed was a driveway, when the snow covered the ground, looks more like an area right in front of a barn. There was this concrete piece on top of some rocks, like the barn area behind the house I pulled up that nice dress buckle a month and a half ago. Near there I was getting a good sound. I pulled up some big iron for a shovel head, but some how I got lucky. In the hole I pulled up a full lock. It looks brass, and almost identical to the one nalc472 pulled out of the ground out in the mid west. Out by what I figured was the privy it appears someone was digging pulling up bottles. There was a full clock gear setup and an old mason top and ceramic lid. Got another lamp part there too and what appears as black glass. There was a D buckle someone didn't want apparently. I pulled an even larger brass plate with holes/slots there.
Since there was another spot close by I packed up and headed there for short hunt before it got dark. There were a few structures facing the road. First target I got there was my first crotal bell....or petal bell. It is pretty big. They do sound nice, but not close to a coin. The bottom is a bit cracked but the maker's mark was there and I can narrow it down to 1832-1850. I would probably even say 1840 is cutoff as Seth J North's bell foundry closed in 1840, but yet it says the foundry with Stanley became Russel & Irwin in 1850. The petal bell definitely has the sunbursts design. Overall pleased with getting some first even if I couldn't pull up some old coins. And retribution for reading this, here's the pics (and info).
Seth North and Henry Stanley
N & S maker's mark on some larger petal bells.
Some have a 5-pointed star in place of or in addition to the N & S.
All bells have a distinctive sunburst design in each petal.
This New Britain, Connecticut, foundry operated from about 1832 to 1850 when it was sold to Russel & Erwin (below.) (6 (http://classicbells.com/info/bellMakers.html#ref6))
http://classicbells.com/info/bellMakers.html
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I went down the road to hit the next site. The large tree by the wall opening had grown around some iron piece. I kept moving around the site trying to get some good signals but it was almost every spot I checked I would come upon a predug hole. I got a mid 60 reading (like a zincoln) by these rocks right behind the cellar. I moved the rock to try and find the item, and it dropped. Oops.... I found the well which was covered up by these rocks. There were a lot of different areas sectioned off by the stone walls. It looks like new hiking trails were put thru the area. One predug hole I got a target. They must have missed it. It was only the jacket to a round. The lead inside was deteriorated.
The next hole I hit was the one I tried twice over the winter but the snow hindered any hunting. Omg this time it was such a short walk being no snow on the ground. The luck didn't come right away. I was getting cans by this massive oak tree...cuz it was near the hiking trail. Near the hole tho I pulled up my first lamp part. I got a big iron buckle. What i assumed was a driveway, when the snow covered the ground, looks more like an area right in front of a barn. There was this concrete piece on top of some rocks, like the barn area behind the house I pulled up that nice dress buckle a month and a half ago. Near there I was getting a good sound. I pulled up some big iron for a shovel head, but some how I got lucky. In the hole I pulled up a full lock. It looks brass, and almost identical to the one nalc472 pulled out of the ground out in the mid west. Out by what I figured was the privy it appears someone was digging pulling up bottles. There was a full clock gear setup and an old mason top and ceramic lid. Got another lamp part there too and what appears as black glass. There was a D buckle someone didn't want apparently. I pulled an even larger brass plate with holes/slots there.
Since there was another spot close by I packed up and headed there for short hunt before it got dark. There were a few structures facing the road. First target I got there was my first crotal bell....or petal bell. It is pretty big. They do sound nice, but not close to a coin. The bottom is a bit cracked but the maker's mark was there and I can narrow it down to 1832-1850. I would probably even say 1840 is cutoff as Seth J North's bell foundry closed in 1840, but yet it says the foundry with Stanley became Russel & Irwin in 1850. The petal bell definitely has the sunbursts design. Overall pleased with getting some first even if I couldn't pull up some old coins. And retribution for reading this, here's the pics (and info).
Seth North and Henry Stanley
N & S maker's mark on some larger petal bells.
Some have a 5-pointed star in place of or in addition to the N & S.
All bells have a distinctive sunburst design in each petal.
This New Britain, Connecticut, foundry operated from about 1832 to 1850 when it was sold to Russel & Erwin (below.) (6 (http://classicbells.com/info/bellMakers.html#ref6))
http://classicbells.com/info/bellMakers.html
47623 47617 47624 47614
47612 47618 47613 47622 47621 47620 47619 47616 47615