Working shoe buckle, Dandy
I needed a good hike badly so I got out early Saturday early and took the long way in to an old site. When I got back to my car my GPS software said I had hiked 6 miles but it felt like 60 miles. :shocked01:
I managed a tombac and a nice dandy from the lip of the cellar hole and was poking around the woods near the site and noticed what looked like the remains of an old cart path that skirted the swamp. Didn't take long and I got a screamer of a signal on this old path. It sounded too big and shallow to get excited about and to be honest if I wasn't out in the middle of the woods I would have wrote it off as a squished soda can and not even dug it up. So I was surprised when this nice little shoe buckle popped up. It wasn't more than 2 inches deep. I am sure I have left a lot of shoe buckles in ground over the years because many of them are very shallow and sound like cans.
The chape and tongue swung freely on the brass pin when I picked it up.
https://i.imgur.com/gPTI4Dq.jpg
Fragment of an old cart path about 100 yards from the site :
https://i.imgur.com/kN4VCrI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/qVST0jC.jpg
Jeff
