Silver and ???Warranted Superior

CROCKofCOINS

I found a sidewalk demo this AM. I had to work fast...the workers were drinking coffee before work starts.
I got a 1958 D dime and then this odd item.

1958 D Dime



Odd item ??




Warranted Superior


Warranted Superior
Info: Eagle 1860's Hand Saw Disc: These are the ones that so often are misidentified as a button when shaft is missing. Actually they were mounted on handsaws of the period. Marked "Warranted Superior" with a droop wing eagle.

Jerry

demodigger

its a "saw" nut. go look at an old saw. its the thing that holds the blade to the handle.

SilverDreams

Nice dime.

walkerminus1

<< <i>I found a sidewalk demo this AM. I had to work fast...the workers were drinking coffee before work starts.
I got a 1958 D dime and then this odd item.
>>



Sweet finds. Ok, so help a newbie out on this sidewalk demo stuff. When excavating is being done, is that the time to go out there and hit stuff? I went to a park the other day with the intention of heading down in the woods and detecting these old YMCA camps that are down there. To my dismay, only one building foundation was left as they started clearing the rest of the area out for expanding a nearby subdivision. I didn't even hit the cleared areas, should I have?

Thanks for the info.

Rob

lordmarcovan

I have one of those saw nut thingies just like that! Cool find! I liked it when I found mine. The eagle is neat.



<< <i>Ok, so help a newbie out on this sidewalk demo stuff. When excavating is being done, is that the time to go out there and hit stuff? >>

Absolutely. Obviously, you shouldn't get in the way of any workers, but when they lift up old sidewalks, they are effectively opening up a virtual time capsule, and exposing dirt that has been covered by sidewalk for generations, protecting it from being scattered with modern zinc cents and pulltabs and foil, for the most part. You should dig just about every signal if you have a chance to shoot underneath where an old sidewalk lay and was recently taken up. Unless there are a lot of rusty nails, you should probably run zero discrimination and dig everything.



<< <i>I went to a park the other day with the intention of heading down in the woods and detecting these old YMCA camps that are down there. To my dismay, only one building foundation was left as they started clearing the rest of the area out for expanding a nearby subdivision. I didn't even hit the cleared areas, should I have? >>

Absolutely. Follow those 'dozers. Not only is "nekkid dirt" easier to dig in, it also has sometimes had that top few inches of trash-bearing deposits removed. To a lesser degree, it can be like a time capsule, too, unless the dirt was previously disturbed. If you start digging Mountain Dew or Miller Lite cans at a foot deep, you might want to reconsider it. And bare dirt also enables you to spot nonmetallic artifacts that might have gotten exposed, like china, marbles, clay pipes, whatever. Who cares whether foundations are still there or not? They are unimportant, except as a reference to the layout of the site. The coins and relics that are in the ground are still there, long after any trace of a foundation is gone.

CROCKofCOINS

>>I didn't even hit the cleared areas, should I have?<<

I would.
The trick for me is to get in after they remove a sidewalk or top layer of grass/weeds.
Some small jobs get refilled the same day the top is removed. Got to work around the workers.
Sometimes I take a bucket and just dump a small hand full of dirt with target into the bucket till I have time to check it out.

Jerry

ricko

Cool finds... those sites always intrigue me... never tried to hunt one.. must do that. Cheers, RickO

eyoung429

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<< <i>I found a sidewalk demo this AM. I had to work fast...the workers were drinking coffee before work starts.
I got a 1958 D dime and then this odd item.
>>



Sweet finds. Ok, so help a newbie out on this sidewalk demo stuff. When excavating is being done, is that the time to go out there and hit stuff? I went to a park the other day with the intention of heading down in the woods and detecting these old YMCA camps that are down there. To my dismay, only one building foundation was left as they started clearing the rest of the area out for expanding a nearby subdivision. I didn't even hit the cleared areas, should I have?

Thanks for the info.

Rob >>



Nah, don't ever bother with ppl ripping up sidewalks and parking lots..........