Despite 2014 being my first year metal detecting I still had a great year, and I'm looking forward to 2015! Unfortunately us New Englanders are gonna have to wait for our 3 feet of snow to melt.
In late December I had one of my greatest hunts by far, I headed over to a house in search of a gold wedding ring the owner lost. After around 10 minutes of detecting I successfully found the ring, the owner was really happy and let me detect the rest of his yard. Within 15 minutes of searching I pulled my first complete colonial shoe buckle! And within another 10 minutes I pulled out my oldest coin to date! A 1730 KG II halfpenny! The most surprising thing to me is that the house I was detecting was built 1920, my explanation would be that the property would have been the farm field of the neighboring house built 1806.
After that I did a few other various hunts at some local cellar holes and ended the year with a few extra relics. Some of these finds I am not certain on and if you have an opinion or idea about it let me know!
Thanks for looking! Hope everybody has a great year!
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It still has very decent detail on it. Nice!
Originally Posted by Tony Two-Cent
Sam like Drew said, I think your buckle is 1740s style. Earlier than most shoe buckles.
nothing better then to help someone out 
the shoe buckle is as everyone said a very early type and could date close to the coin's age . the 1806 home thats close by is a great indicator that your yard was part of an old field but judging from the detail on the coin there might have been an older home close by , maybe a starter home or cabin for the 1806 one . I'd keep detecting that place . congrats again .
