My first dig.
smokinjoe925
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Lol, well I dont know if you would actually call it a dig, most of the stuff was only about four inches down lol. Well, my friend and I were bored so we diceide to take his MD (I think its like a Pioneer 505 or somthing like that) out to the field behind my house. Well after about three minutes of walking around, we got a beep, so we dug a hole about two feet wide to find it lol (dont have a pinpointer and my stud finder was acting up) but we found the first buckle or whatever it is on the left. We then continued to walk around for about thirty minutes with no luck and came back to that spot and found the circle part. Then about ten feet away from the other two we found the right half. We think that this is either part of a belt or a horse bridle (since the field has horses in it durring the summer). The detector said that the middle one was silver and it sounds pretty close to silver, the other two are just tin or iron. I cleaned these up, they were realy bad before.
Front pics:
Pictures fo the back, they have no markings other than hammer marks on the middle one:
The middle part:
Well Thanks for checking out my first dig, and if anyone knows what these actually are it would be most appreciated. Thanks
Joe
Front pics:
Pictures fo the back, they have no markings other than hammer marks on the middle one:
The middle part:
Well Thanks for checking out my first dig, and if anyone knows what these actually are it would be most appreciated. Thanks
Joe
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Joe
<< <i>Thanks, yea it was fun right up until I realized that I was kneeling in mud.... lol then I got cold.
Joe >>
You were in a horse field, are you sure its mud?
Congrats on the find.
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It's hard for me to imagine what function those pieces might've served, but if I were gonna take a stab in the dark, based on your clues, I would agree with your horse bridle theory. The leather they were attached to might've disintegrated in the soil over the 75-100 years it lay buried.
Your metal detector reading the center piece in the "silver" range does not necessarily mean it is silver, though it looks like it could be. I would guess it might be silver plated brass. Then again, the hammered repoussé appearance of the central ornament might very well indicate something silver.
I am pretty sure you have an artifact that is roughly 100 years old, and for a first find, I would say you did very well indeed! Congratulations!
I dug a brass button on a late 19th/early 20th century house site that had a design very similar to your central ornament, with the curlicues like that. A 1904 Indian cent came up near it.
You might not get many finds from that pasture, but it looks as though there are some possibilities!
Be sure to enter that in the Relic category for the monthly awards. For a first find, it is pretty nice.
<< <i>Be sure to enter that in the Relic category for the monthly awards. For a first find, it is pretty nice. >>
Joe