My finds November 2025 and on
MtW124
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I’m starting this so I don’t keep starting new discussions. There not as good as most on here but I’m going to share what I find.
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That's a huge nail and a nice assortment of things
Cool finds! I really like the large horse harness ring. Is it made from brass?
Thanks @johnny9434 @Göttinger That nail is very light so I’m thinking aluminum. It came up loud and on the conductor line so I dug it. I like odd nails so that was a good find in my book too. On my manticore I have been using the 2 tone mode because my hearing isn’t the best do to working in a loud environment my whole life. The ringing is insane. I’ve been trying to use the 5 tone setting more. The horse ring is steel. After cleaning it off, I found that its plated. I found the weld and filed it a bit just to make sure. They must have dumped old home debris in this park that I was hunting because my old maps don’t show a home here. The head stamps are from the 1915-1942 range. I found them on the cartridge identification site for Union Metallic Cartridge company after their merger with Remington arms in 1912. Anyway I think I got the year right.
The WWII lipstick was the best find I had today.
The rest that came out today.
That nail is probably a gutter spike
Lafayette Grading Set
That makes sense @pocketpiececommems
Thawed enough to get out! What a great day. The square item is a 1935 tax token made of aluminum. 1.5 mill
I've found a couple of those sales tax tokens over the years, although none recently. I would return to wherever that came from and search for silver coins.
I'll do that @Bayard1908. I was able to get out yesterday as the weather allowed the ground to thaw enough. I found this Skeleton key at another park about a mile away from the park that I found the Tax Token.
I'm not sure what this rock is that I found near the key. Anyway I think it's a rock. It is twice the weight of the granite rocks on my yard. Files very easily. But doesn't look like lead. I'm stumped.
Looks like field-cast lead with a thick white oxide layer to me
I appreciate the input @Göttinger. I'm going to go with your information as being the best choice. Picking it up and feeling the weight of it took me right to a lead item. It came up at 95-96 on my Minelab Manticore in the ground. Then I second guessed myself after looking at it closer through my microscope. I didn't put a torch to it to see what it's melting point was but I was checking all of the different specific gravity charts and nothing made sense . It's not porous and It is soft using a file and my nail doesn't put a scratch on it .