The Arkenstone, thimble and button etc.

[Lodge Scent]

Well maybe not quite the Arkenstone, but I did feel like Bilbo Baggins for a second when I saw this in my sifter screen.

http://i.imgur.com/5F1gMeY.jpg

I'm guessing it is cut glass or crystal and I am guessing it was a necklace jewel ??

http://i.imgur.com/6EC3zpL.jpg

Also sifted the thimble. Found the rest with the detector. Found the bone-handled fork as I was digging for the lead tube thingy.

http://i.imgur.com/0AthZeX.jpg

Honeysuckles are in bloom.

http://i.imgur.com/egmpR14.jpg

Jeff

[Bucknut]

Nice finds! Just watched the Hobbit with the kids.

[del]

"The heart of the mountain" :lol: seriously Jeff pretty cool glass bead !! nice finds

[Digger_O'Dell]

I agree, some nice finds! Always like to see a good thimble, and that fork I would guess is pretty early.

[calabash digger]

I mean come on man the guy finds a magical crystal in a sifter box... lol nice finds!

[OxShoeDrew]

Nice job, Jeff! That's an old thimble too! :cheesysmile:

[Donnie B]

You found the Arkenstone! How many gold coins did you need to sift to find it?

[Lodge Scent]

Nice finds! Just watched the Hobbit with the kids.

Great movie Bucknut. Great book.


"The heart of the mountain" :lol: seriously Jeff pretty cool glass bead !! nice finds

Dan, I imagine that piece of glass was a treasure to the dirt poor hardscrabble colonist that lived in that 10' X 10' cabin.


I agree, some nice finds! Always like to see a good thimble, and that fork I would guess is pretty early.

I do like finding thimbles. Would like to find a silver one some day. That site gave up 15 coppers or so when I found it some years back. The youngest being 1809. I'm assuming the fork is a couple hundred years old anyway.


I mean come on man the guy finds a magical crystal in a sifter box... lol nice finds!

I know! What the heck! That's rarer than Donnie B's shilling !


Nice job, Jeff! That's an old thimble too! :cheesysmile:

Drew the Arkenstone came from inside the cellar hole.


You found the Arkenstone! How many gold coins did you need to sift to find it?

Donnie, yeah I was tossing aside the gold to get to that stone.

[aloldstuff]

Please provide the location of the tossed gold coins.....:lol:. Could the crystal be part of a lamp that had hanging crystals? And is that a cuff link I see?

[Lodge Scent]

That glass could be from a lamp Al. It's just a small round button. Camera angle makes it look oval.