Digger_O'Dell
12-09-2015, 09:33 PM
Hi all,
Just spent more time at the old church, but now have move to the back yard area that appears to have once been livestock area for a short period, then wooded before that. I managed to soon find a couple shotgun brass casings that I was later to identify as being from around the 1900-1909 period, which shows me I'm in the right area! But soon I was mislead into digging many great silver type signals (12-44/46) showing from 7 to 10 inches, only to find shallow aluminum wire. Grrr....
Not much for coins but a lot of zincolns near the surface, but a couple surprisingly deep! I was about to end the morning and work towards the car when I got this deep signal that almost blew my ears off giving me a 12-48 to 12-49-last time I saw that was when I pulled my Franklin half, so I got real excited and dug real carefully. I was quite surprised when i ended up almost a foot down and pulled out a big heavy round bronze object with a key hole. Researching it later I found it is the front plate of a very old padlock! Just wish I could have found it whole...:shocked01: Still a nice find though. I also soon found an old latch with ceramic knob close by before I called it a morning.
51864
This is what the whole lock I found looks like.
51865
Just spent more time at the old church, but now have move to the back yard area that appears to have once been livestock area for a short period, then wooded before that. I managed to soon find a couple shotgun brass casings that I was later to identify as being from around the 1900-1909 period, which shows me I'm in the right area! But soon I was mislead into digging many great silver type signals (12-44/46) showing from 7 to 10 inches, only to find shallow aluminum wire. Grrr....
Not much for coins but a lot of zincolns near the surface, but a couple surprisingly deep! I was about to end the morning and work towards the car when I got this deep signal that almost blew my ears off giving me a 12-48 to 12-49-last time I saw that was when I pulled my Franklin half, so I got real excited and dug real carefully. I was quite surprised when i ended up almost a foot down and pulled out a big heavy round bronze object with a key hole. Researching it later I found it is the front plate of a very old padlock! Just wish I could have found it whole...:shocked01: Still a nice find though. I also soon found an old latch with ceramic knob close by before I called it a morning.
51864
This is what the whole lock I found looks like.
51865