Finished up the mountain rock foundatin area.

[Old coin hunter]

Went back up into the mountains and detected the area around the rock foundation for a little over three hours and fond some neat stuff. 21 square nails, two axe heads, hammer head,square nut wrench, complete spoon and several pieces, 1853 suspender or dress buckle, Mother of pearl Barrette, four buttons, with one being Mother of pearl and two being porcelain and a real old Chinese coin made 1661-1722. Think i pretty much found what was there. HH Jim.

 

[okierebel]

Man, OCH, those are some very cool finds! I bet that was a lot of fun. Nice work!
HH okie

 

[laplander]

Nice digs coin hunter, love the buckle. I like investigating some of the iron relics as well!
HH Jeff

 

[Ronstar]

Those are definitely some interesting recoveries. Do you know the history of that feature in order to get old foreign coins??

 

[Old coin hunter]

Those are definitely some interesting recoveries. Do you know the history of that feature in order to get old foreign coins??

There was a large Chinese population in Northern Nevada in the middle 1800s to the early 1900s working in small gold mining operations and a lot of them mining on their own claims. Jim

 

[MikeO]

Awesome assortment of cool finds. Musta been some RR workers around being you found that Chinese coin.
Looking up the dynasty is always fun. Great hunt

 

[Old coin hunter]

Awesome assortment of cool finds. Musta been some RR workers around being you found that Chinese coin.
Looking up the dynasty is always fun. Great hunt

Gold miners. Jim

 

[Old coin hunter]

Found this information on the large axe head. Jim

 

[thebigd81]

Good assortment of goodies. I love finding axe heads I think they are an underrated find

 

[fwcrawford]

Interesting finds!!
That spoon is an old one for sure....
Nice that the axehead has some information on it.