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The last few times I been out I caught some nice views even tho not much with finds. The cellar that had the chimney toppled (across the road from the cellar) hid a jar lid, fork, and a conestoga bell. The clacker is still inside and moves freely. Either no one bothered with this area or they...

I finally got some pics of the stragglers. Stuff that kinda stayed in the bucket. One lantern piece, the wire, and the mangled spoon were in the same hole. I thought the lanterns were a little unique as the one in pieces has no information on the knob, and the other doesn't even have a patent...

The weather still seems to be surprising this year. The ground has been of and on frozen, but it has allowed for some detecting to still continue. I thought things were bleak with the last snow that dumped 6", but the blanket didn't last long. The first hunt of the year I was met up with Kev at...

Hope all had some good time off. I did work some OT and got some cash toward a new shovel. I got out for about an hour on Xmas and hunted a site way in the woods. Another place they seem to be logging this year. The actual cellar was hidden as there was something built right next to it, but I...

For those who don't believe when I say I have other less valuable finds that I forget to take the pics of.. ;):lol: I managed to snag two pics before I got to work today of the bigger items. Unfortunately the first one def needed a size reference. It was just on the trunk of the car. The iron...

The NE weather has really been affecting things. Last weekend was snow that was melting the next day. The weekend before was frigid, yet I still managed an outing. The next to last outing I got out to a spot that I would think is a sift-worthy. Very active for it's lifetime and this time I was...

Okay, so there is one correction. The Seth North Bell is actually drilled so it is closer to the 1850 mark than the 1832 mark. There was only 18 years in there anyway. This is all the big bells. The two GA&W had the cast shank. The N&S had the drilled shank. And the one at 7 o'clock is the...

Thanks, Al. Wait, this was a discussion? It is probable that conestogas are more scarce. Crotals had many many foundries and were used quite extensively. There were at least five per carriage. Conestoga were sometimes used on the carriages, but that was the end of their lifetime just before cars...

I posted this here as the star of the hunt was the big bell. This was the hunt that I was too busy to take pics for and ended up taking items to the club meeting for show and FOTM voting. Well, now all the items are not present and I have to find them to take pics. However I was able to get the...

Thanks, WD. They aren't the easiest to come by, but hell, I've found more of them than I have Spanish Reales or GW buttons. :lol: Yeah. The other one was a big brass coin like the size of an LC. I added the link. I took a few pictures as I thought they were just zoomed, which might have made...

Correction. Once I looked again at the coin I realized I was trying to match the exactness of the top character with subtle things to the two choices. The first machine struck Chinese coins were 1889 or 1890. That's why any milled coins have differences in the exact length of lines. It is...

Saturday was a beautiful day to get out. Mark, Robert, and I planned to hit a few cellars. They had three spots planned out, but there ended up being four cellars total. I had the final cellar planned. We hiked in for a ways to find that some of the trail and a few spots had been chewed up by...

Friday I skipped out of work a tad early for a nice sushi lunch and then a hunt at a permission. The owner is a coworker of the gf. The house was built 1880 and is definitely near an old area. The owner kept saying that the driveway was an old carriage road (must be before the 1868 map was...

It's a much cooler time to get out lately but the days are often too short. Last Tues the wind drove the coldness through the layers of clothes. We were trying for a ring recovery but I have no idea why this small garden field has so much trash. This weekend was much better for a long hike. It...

The first weekend this month I got to a spot with a hunting buddy from ytc and the gf came along. We went to try out this field I was hearing a bunch of targets in. This is a major area with fields. Well, I think someone might have seen me walking near there from the previous weekend cuz this...

Here's the buckles. I think I shall be taking a pic of silver and then a pic of bells. Did you pull another today, Dan, or was that pic on FB an older one?

Finally I have something I can't ID. The fourth item was already IDed by the answer box.. I mean Dan, not Google. :lol:. It was a racer bearing for a Model T. However, the other items. One is a small latch maybe 2-2.5" long. Two holes on each end. It was found on the old cart road leading to...

Tenks, Drew. That was about as good as a cleaning could do. I used the peroxide method on it. It's renwaxed now, but I might be able to try and toothpick, but I don't think it'll help any.

I've been out a few times since the last post I made. Friday 9-16 I got out of work early to hit a cellar with Danny. Finally taking him to one of my sites... until I learned he had been there before. Its a big site with two cellars and I guess a pen way far back from the cellars. I could have...

Drew, Here's some close ups of the Connecticut Civil War era button. Thanks, Digger. Can't say I'd get tired of hearing a "Wow". Thanks, Chris. I'm sure there will be a possibility you can visit this way to get the opportunity. A few AD members have come this way for hunts. Granted, that...