With the ground being frozen it is difficult to appease my addiction.
Difficult but not impossible.
Living close to water has its advantages.
Anything that is underwater during high tide is not frozen during low tide.
The finds here on the east coast are nothing to brag about but HEY it is a post.
The brass eared item is from an old brass pot. the two copper coins are British, and from what little is left they appear to date from the late 1700s.
The date on the Newfoundland nickel is 1919.
On Christmas day my addiction took over when a spare hour of free time appeared while cooking the turkey.
So I went tromping off into the bush behind my brothers trailer and pulled this.
Some of you will recognize what it is, for those of you who do not it is a ox shoe.
Historically they used oxen to pull logs out of the bush during the logging season.
And with the swampy nature of much of this area this was done during the winter.
So to find a mule shoe with the winter cleats on Christmas day was very cool.
These are from another low tide hunt along the Lahave River.
Sometimes a mundane item like an old axe head can be interesting if you look closely.
I noticed the band on the blade and instantly recognized what it was.
This little hatchet/axe is blacksmith made and not a modern mass produced one.
The banding was there to help hold the high carbon steel cutting edge onto the low carbon body.
Difficult but not impossible.
Living close to water has its advantages.
Anything that is underwater during high tide is not frozen during low tide.
The finds here on the east coast are nothing to brag about but HEY it is a post.
The brass eared item is from an old brass pot. the two copper coins are British, and from what little is left they appear to date from the late 1700s.
The date on the Newfoundland nickel is 1919.
On Christmas day my addiction took over when a spare hour of free time appeared while cooking the turkey.
So I went tromping off into the bush behind my brothers trailer and pulled this.
Some of you will recognize what it is, for those of you who do not it is a ox shoe.
Historically they used oxen to pull logs out of the bush during the logging season.
And with the swampy nature of much of this area this was done during the winter.
So to find a mule shoe with the winter cleats on Christmas day was very cool.
These are from another low tide hunt along the Lahave River.
Sometimes a mundane item like an old axe head can be interesting if you look closely.
I noticed the band on the blade and instantly recognized what it was.
This little hatchet/axe is blacksmith made and not a modern mass produced one.
The banding was there to help hold the high carbon steel cutting edge onto the low carbon body.
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