Saturdays finds :cam:

[norton4]

Well, Saturday morning we decided to head up to my grandparents house. There's tons of history up there. Their neighbors house was the main building of a plantation, however the people who currently live there wont let me detect. Guess I'll have to see if they ever sell it then ask the people who buy it. However most of the rest of the land that was once part of the plantation is now owned by a good friend of my grandparents and he doesn't mind me going out there. The first thing you see on his land is an old cabin, I love going there with my detector because it always gives up more finds, but no coins yet. when the bees leave I'm going to remove the floor boards (they aren't fastened down) and see if anyone dropped some coins. If you keep walking past the cabin there are foundations, cellar holes, chimneys, and car frames all over the hills. They call it Martin town. From what I've been told these were the houses of the slaves and were still used until the fifties when a forest fire came through and destroyed all but that one cabin. I haven't searched much of these but where I have been there's tons of metal from the roofs. If I picked it all up from all the sites I could easily get $100 or more worth of metal. So after I got annoyed with all the roofing I went back down to the cabin. These are my finds from there. They are next to a quarter for size comparison. the button isn't military or anything, just a button. I have no idea on the leaf thing or the jar, but they're intresting.

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Anyone know anything about this? I think its a broach.

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heres the back

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[echostar61]

WOW , Very Nice Finds, I really like the broach

Terri

 

[jim tn]

Sounds like an interesting place to hunt. Nice finds. HH jim tn

 

[tabdog]

That's very interesting.

I dig a lot of artifacts hoping for a " BIG ONE " .

But in the end, it's the personal contact with day's gone by,

in a way that most people will never know, that drives me,

and satisfies my need, for what, I'm not sure.

But I love to do it, and that's all that counts.

BTW, I love that cameo.

HH,

 

[norton4]

cameo! thats what my grandparents called it. i couldnt remember that for anything

 

[dljones54]

Hey, Norton4, great finds! Just a suggestion - but, when you pull up the floorboards, watch out for crock jars. One of my now-deceased friends once showed me where his great-grandmother lived, about 1824, and, when they pulled up the floorboards of the old smokehouse, they found a crock jar full of gold coins. So, when you check out that cabin, good luck!

 

[norton4]

Thanks dijones, I have been going to that cabin for about a year whenever I go to my grandparents house and only recently thought of checking under there. The real reason I want to do that is because when my mother was young one of her friends eyeballed a 1800's coin near the cabin. Now you've gotten me even more exited. But I don't know when I'm going up there next.