MOPED ARMY

Nice finds! All civil war i presume? What metal detector do you use?

~ Ancient Funeral Pyres, Kilns & Ovens, Pottery, Arrastras, Copper neck lacestools, Alloys (of Unknown orgin) Coral trinkets, Crystals like Amethyst, Quartz twins, Giant Ground Sloth & Mastadon tusks Bones & Silver & Gold Jesuit treasure

~ But Nothing like Bas' Cool Old Trash

~ Just sayin' ! (edited)

Have you ever found a rusty nail or a bottle Cap? That would be cool.

~ Oh yeah, 1 time We found a Crashed Airplane in the Mountains

~ Just sayin' !

A commemorative hanger to celebrate its been 50 years since the battle of waterloo.

Being able to collect arrowheads like that would be awesome. In the Netherlands stone arrows havent been used for over 2000 years so you wont find that many of em.

One of the things i kind off collect is clay pipes.

The nice thing about them is you can easily date them by size, shape and makers mark.

The smallest one (top left) is from the 16th century while the largest one (bottom right) is early 20th century. (edited)

Man, it seems we share the same hobbies, I have several metal detectors and I collect everything old, have many fossils too. Plus, of course, old mopeds. Regards.

I live near a flourspar mine and an ancient native American campsite. It was once the bottom of the ocean so there is all kinds of stuff here.

Gastropod cast, dino bone, ammonite, flourspar, quartz and calcite.

I started digging a row of holes in my lower yard yesterday to transplant some black raspberries. In the very first hole i dug up a piece of glazed pottery about 6-8" deep. After digging 20 holes, i found a bit of something in almost every hole, and a lot of coal ashes.

Our house was one of the first houses built in this town back in 1860 and appearently my back yard was the local landfill.

While digging one hole i pulled up an end cap for an Eveready flashlight. After a little research, i found that they used the vertical line pattern from around 1929, and around 1937 they added "Made in USA" to it. This one is stamped with the USA script so i'll have to do a little more research to figure out when the design changed again.

I had my buddy come up today to scout around with his metal detector and he found a few items.

An ornate back of a pocket watch, a buckle, several nails, half of a leaf spring ply, half of a pair of binoculars, canning accessories, and a few 12 gauge shot gun shells. The Remington UMC "Nitro Club" has Remington UMC printed on a band around the shell. I've never seen that before. Another round item that appears to be the bottom of a container is stamped "Magic" with a patent date of July 30,1901.

His interest is finding coins. nothing special today but least he found a 1982 penny and a 1966 dime. He'll be back. Better luck next time.

Here's some early ford parts including the chimney for a teens carbide headlight. A few various casings and bullets, some sort of needle valve, and half of a rubber stopper.

Three axe heads, including two badly damaged from driving stakes or wedges. These two worst ones were found near a civil war campsite. On the right a 1890's-early 1900's bicycle pedal, Tobacco truck axle hanger, part of a tiny bench vise and some carbon rods from old dry cell batteries.

I found a pretty decent pile of horseshoes and some cut-offs in the same spot, which leads me to believe somebody stopped and shoed several horses/mules.

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Great haul! Are you tempted to carry on digging for the pleasure now?

@blaine

"Our house was one of the first houses built in this town back in 1860 and appearently my back yard was the local landfill."

The pottery could partially be 1860's but from the looks of it its mostly 1890-1920 .

Usually people use(d) their own yard as a garbage dump, so most of the trash probably came from your house.

Tempted? Maybe a little, however I did need more topsoil last night and found this about 8-10" deep. A jar lid with two little bumps that would have been to hold a wire clip in place, similar to a Bendix brake master cylinder lid.

It has two patent dates from 1875 and 1877 and a re-issue date from 1882.