MangoAve
06-13-2017, 02:50 PM
The start of the day was pretty bad. This was a research fail. It had all the signs and even looked like a depression with some stones, but some of it was bedrock and the whole site had very little iron. It also pissed me off with how hard it was to hike through all the past logging. They left that stuff everywhere. Almost as bad as the spot a few months ago with Mark S.
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I decided to move to a spot where I had visited when there was snow in the ground. I had a few targets so I figured I'd try my luck. Good thing I did. Wasn't long until a cuff button came up. Then a mangled tongue/chappe assembly. Now I got the guts and no frame. Well, I also got a piece of the frame nearby. (Maybe 10ft away is where Kev got the silver buckle.) There was a brass item that was pretty frail. Turns out it is a quillon, the piece between the handle and blade of a dagger. Back when I was here last, I pulled something that looked like a flattened parasol top but missing the rolled edge. Turns out this prob would confirm my original ID of the previous find as the scabbard tip. I am not certain of the age of the item, but it looks like it has a Spartan or a gladiator depicted on the main part and the hand guard. Def a nice unique relic.
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I kept deviating from this one spot that was the productive are and idky. But, it did net me a bucket lister. First I went across the road where I think I saw a barn in the historical aerial. Idk. Then I went along this arch just where there was no ground cover preventing the coil swinging. There were some good signals. Four, in fact. Turns out they were bullet tips. But... not much more than 15 ft from this path, within 40ft from the cellar, I pulled up my first Spanish silver. It was a 1773 Two reales from the Mexico Mint. Pretty good shape for a 244 year old coin. This beat my previous oldest silver by 102yr. I was ecstatic I finally nabbed some silver. I was having trouble determining the denomination at first... but now I realize the Spanish coins were thinner and therefore had a larger diameter. They are thinner, hence why they are really thin when worn. Happy to knock one off the list in a big way. Esp when I missed four different times of 1/2 reales. To show how old the place was, there were two pewter spoon bowls and you can see three pieces of a pewter buckle frame. The dog license was a let down.
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Here was a pic of Kev's buckle in the dirt.
59568
Last Thursday I did hit a spot that I thought had potential. It was a nice view and a not so nice hike in. Up and down. ugh. I found only a brass piece and a single button away from the cellar. I stayed away cuz the iron I saw on the rocks. Well, turned out that the cellar had more items to find which included another fuggin harmonica reed, a petal bell (size 1) and a lantern piece. The lantern was screaming at me which makes me wonder who the heck missed it. On the way out I checked the kiosk to see what was on the map. As I got close a bird flew away and caught me off guard. Seems she was watching over the little guy.
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59566
I decided to move to a spot where I had visited when there was snow in the ground. I had a few targets so I figured I'd try my luck. Good thing I did. Wasn't long until a cuff button came up. Then a mangled tongue/chappe assembly. Now I got the guts and no frame. Well, I also got a piece of the frame nearby. (Maybe 10ft away is where Kev got the silver buckle.) There was a brass item that was pretty frail. Turns out it is a quillon, the piece between the handle and blade of a dagger. Back when I was here last, I pulled something that looked like a flattened parasol top but missing the rolled edge. Turns out this prob would confirm my original ID of the previous find as the scabbard tip. I am not certain of the age of the item, but it looks like it has a Spartan or a gladiator depicted on the main part and the hand guard. Def a nice unique relic.
59571595675957259565
I kept deviating from this one spot that was the productive are and idky. But, it did net me a bucket lister. First I went across the road where I think I saw a barn in the historical aerial. Idk. Then I went along this arch just where there was no ground cover preventing the coil swinging. There were some good signals. Four, in fact. Turns out they were bullet tips. But... not much more than 15 ft from this path, within 40ft from the cellar, I pulled up my first Spanish silver. It was a 1773 Two reales from the Mexico Mint. Pretty good shape for a 244 year old coin. This beat my previous oldest silver by 102yr. I was ecstatic I finally nabbed some silver. I was having trouble determining the denomination at first... but now I realize the Spanish coins were thinner and therefore had a larger diameter. They are thinner, hence why they are really thin when worn. Happy to knock one off the list in a big way. Esp when I missed four different times of 1/2 reales. To show how old the place was, there were two pewter spoon bowls and you can see three pieces of a pewter buckle frame. The dog license was a let down.
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Here was a pic of Kev's buckle in the dirt.
59568
Last Thursday I did hit a spot that I thought had potential. It was a nice view and a not so nice hike in. Up and down. ugh. I found only a brass piece and a single button away from the cellar. I stayed away cuz the iron I saw on the rocks. Well, turned out that the cellar had more items to find which included another fuggin harmonica reed, a petal bell (size 1) and a lantern piece. The lantern was screaming at me which makes me wonder who the heck missed it. On the way out I checked the kiosk to see what was on the map. As I got close a bird flew away and caught me off guard. Seems she was watching over the little guy.
5957059569595645956259561