A few weeks ago I decided to detect my old house site located on my family property's NC. I believe it dates around the 1910's to 1920's due to the age of the bottles I've found there. This is my first time detecting with both a detector and pinpointer. I finally purchased A pointer. The detector is borrowed but I'm saving up for one. I've got a lot to learn! I'm using a Garret Ace 250 which I'm planning on buying from my friend and giving to my little one. I first had the detector set on all metal but when I went over my site It went crazy nails everywhere so I changed it to the Jewelry setting. I found some interesting objects and a lot of junk. My favorite find was the Model T hubcap. The toy horse sure was sure surprising. One problem I had was the pinpointer was picking up all the nails around it. Oh so much to learn such as best techniques and tools to use. Most of all I want to be able to clean my finds properly. Thanks for being a great inspiration Bruce! I was hoping for a coin but only found one rusty round object. I am absolutely loving trying to figure out what I've found. I believe I found the axle to the model T. All of the buttons came from the same hole. Yea so many questions. Any thoughts on my productivity are greatly appreciated!
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I''m liking that Ford emblem. How about some pictures of the old bottles that came from the site?
Glad you are finding some cool stuff,
fldwlkrHeadwaters of the Little Miami, Ohio
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Thanks fldwlkr. I found the place by seeing a few out of place rocks sticking up and looked closer and found two bottles just sticking above the leaf litter. Got blower out and found the rest. The small bottle popped out while digging a signal. Not positive about age the coke bottle has a 20 on it no city? Wish the Chero cola wasn't cracked.
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nice haul
i would carefully clean up those old horse shoes and that ax head
both can be worth a couple of bucks,especially the ax head. theres a bunch of folks that collect them
looks like there may be a couple of plow bits in the mix as well
that old file would make a nice knife,if you know any one that does black smith work i would ask them to forge a knife from it
them old files make sweet knives
and a as a 17 year Ford tech(in my past life) and a Ford person in general,i am LOVING that ford emblem
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Wow Sugaree you grabbed some iron there. There is a guy on this site that can tell you just how to go about cleaning some of those pieces up. I'm sure he will sniff this post out shortly. Great haul...The chase is better than the catch...
I'm Frank and I'm from the flatlands of N'Eastern Illinois...
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Found first bottle around November found latest two weekends ago using blower. All scattered around site which I'm guessing is defined by four large stones sticking out of ground in rectangular pattern.N.C. from the mountains to the sea
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Sugaree - I see a theme going in your metal detecting post. The three shoes in the upper left of your pic - the top and lower left shoes are horse shoes but the one on the lower right is a mule shoe. The two metal items above and to the right with holes in them look to be very worn plow blade deflectors. The sickle like item in the lower left looks like a drag to help guide the plow blade and the item at the very bottom left looks like a very worn plow blade.
If you happen to find any of these let me know - - - They're single trees for horse/mule harness. Also - one last guess - that middle pic in your 2nd post appears to be a shoeing guide for the farrier when he custom fitted horses/mules with shoes on site. That's my farm boy comin' out.Last edited by Scorpion68; 02-21-2018, 08:13 PM.Pickett/Fentress County, Tn - Any day on this side of the grass is a good day. -Chuck-
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HOLY COW that is a ton of iron. There are so many things there that I can comment on but my phone battery will crash before I can finish so let's start with this.
Is that horse lead or cast iron? For cleaning your iron pieces it is easiest to place them in a sealed container full of apple cider vinegar and just leave them alone for a month or two.
By the way, the Garrett 250 is a very hard detector to use in and amongst so much iron. You are going about it the best way. Get rid of the iron and the better finds will start to come.Bruce
In life there are losers and finders. Which one are you?
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