Just getting started!!!

[Diggers]

My husband and I have recently taken up metal detecting! I have to say, it is really addicting! Here is a list of a few of the things we have uncovered, so far!

1. Steven's Echo Cap Gun, 1930, still has most of the detailed tooling!!
2. In the same area as the cap gun, we also found a standard sized horseshoe and a couple of nails/spikes.
3. Last night I think we found Paul Bunyon's house...lol! Everything we found was huge! We found a horseshoe for draft horses, and a GIANT old wrench. If you have any information I would really appreciate it. I'm very curious about the wrench, it's just under 18" long and really heavy. I don't have enough of the rust off to know if it has any markings.

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[Dark Chameleon]

Usually the larger the spanner, the larger the nut and the bend means it was probably for standing on as the nut was that tight, if there are horse shoes then the spanner was probably for a cart nut or coach nut.

Seems you found an old stables or staging post...the larger the shoe the larger the horse so more likely for goods more then people...think of the Budweiser horses kind of size.

Its a good start, I have some horse shoes, mule shoes and bulls shoes (the shapes tell you what wore them)...I keep them out of interest but they are worthless to anyone but us.

Its a good start and history is priceless to the true MD'er especially when its something we or those around us didn't know before hand.

There's a guy on youtube who hunts in England and he keeps finding and looking for flax seals (lead seals used by farmers and laborers during harvest to show what each laborer collected and is paid accordingly).

He had found out when certain laborers worked, that they were mainly Russian, what fields were harvested by which laborer and the years of rotation...the more he finds, the more history from those fields comes out from the sake of small lead seals...they are worth their weight in lead but historically they are more important then a gold ring on a beach as they tell the fullest of stories.

That to the real detectorists is worth more then a silver ring in a totlot, or at least to those like me it is and it seems to those like you too

 

[matthias]

Welcome from NJ. Sounds like you have found a great relic site. Time to start writing your own history book complete with pictures. GL and HH. Matt

Usually the larger the spanner, the larger the nut and the bend means it was probably for standing on as the nut was that tight, if there are horse shoes then the spanner was probably for a cart nut or coach nut.

Seems you found an old stables or staging post...the larger the shoe the larger the horse so more likely for goods more then people...think of the Budweiser horses kind of size.

Its a good start, I have some horse shoes, mule shoes and bulls shoes (the shapes tell you what wore them)...I keep them out of interest but they are worthless to anyone but us.

Its a good start and history is priceless to the true MD'er especially when its something we or those around us didn't know before hand.

There's a guy on youtube who hunts in England and he keeps finding and looking for flax seals (lead seals used by farmers and laborers during harvest to show what each laborer collected and is paid accordingly).

He had found out when certain laborers worked, that they were mainly Russian, what fields were harvested by which laborer and the years of rotation...the more he finds, the more history from those fields comes out from the sake of small lead seals...they are worth their weight in lead but historically they are more important then a gold ring on a beach as they tell the fullest of stories.

That to the real detectorists is worth more then a silver ring in a totlot, or at least to those like me it is and it seems to those like you too

 

[Diggers]

Usually the larger the spanner, the larger the nut and the bend means it was probably for standing on as the nut was that tight, if there are horse shoes then the spanner was probably for a cart nut or coach nut.

Seems you found an old stables or staging post...the larger the shoe the larger the horse so more likely for goods more then people...think of the Budweiser horses kind of size.

Its a good start, I have some horse shoes, mule shoes and bulls shoes (the shapes tell you what wore them)...I keep them out of interest but they are worthless to anyone but us.

Its a good start and history is priceless to the true MD'er especially when its something we or those around us didn't know before hand.

There's a guy on youtube who hunts in England and he keeps finding and looking for flax seals (lead seals used by farmers and laborers during harvest to show what each laborer collected and is paid accordingly).

He had found out when certain laborers worked, that they were mainly Russian, what fields were harvested by which laborer and the years of rotation...the more he finds, the more history from those fields comes out from the sake of small lead seals...they are worth their weight in lead but historically they are more important then a gold ring on a beach as they tell the fullest of stories.

That to the real detectorists is worth more then a silver ring in a totlot, or at least to those like me it is and it seems to those like you too

Thank you for the info!! You are very right!! I love finding old relics. When we go out I never think about finding money or jewelry. I'm always hoping it's something very old, and very cool. You wouldn't believe how excited a person can get finding an old wrench in the dirt!!

 

[Diggers]

Thanks!! Looking forward to it!!