Iron Hinge Found at the Stone House :-D

[talesofthesevenseas]

OK, I admit it, I'm stoked! After dinner tonight on a whim I decided to do a little metal detecting. We figured out that the present front of the house was originally the back, due to the position of the interior staircase. So I was up by what was the original front corner of the house and got a good beep. About four inches down I pull up this cool forged iron hinge! I also pulled up the other iron piece not far from it, but I have no idea what it is. Woohoo! High-Five!

[mart]

Ha !!  You are hooked !!  Neat find,, the piece on the right looks like it may have been an old hand made hand ax that broke at the handle !! Is the wide edge thinner than the rest ??

[talesofthesevenseas]

Too thin to be an axe head, it is the same thickness as the hinge.

[KC]

My first impression Mart was that it was the shape of an axe head as well...and it appeared thin that it was used to scrape the flesh from hides.

[mart]

I was thinking of making shavings on kindling so they would start quicker !! 

[cogar]

Maybe it was a "blank" to be used for making the "matching" hinge. 

[talesofthesevenseas]

I just showed the photo to a friend who is a retired archaeologist. She believes that the large piece is some kind of a scraper.  The two pieces were found separately, about 15' away from each other. Both at a depth of about 4".
 

[ghopper1924]

Seems like an Occam's razor kind of answer, displaying good sense.

[jondar]

Like yourself we live in an old farm house (1870's).  I may have missed some of your postings but what kind of metal detector are you using as to brand, discriminator?,
batteries type.? etc.?  Not long ago I got a faint reading at one end of the front porch
and it proved to be at about three inches an Indian head penny, that someone had drilled a tiny (1/16")hole in (watch fob maybe?),  The fool who drilled it had drilled out the third digit of the year date so it could be 1860, 1870 etc  .  My other coin finds was a silver dime at the old (1850's) site of a Missouri Jayhawker in the Kansas Border Wars named George W. Clarke.  It also had a hole drilled but the date was 1835.  I bought a silver pendant frame put the dime in and gave it to our daughter for a birthday present.

Keep at it, there are many wonderful things waiting for you to dig them up.

[mart]

Jondar,, did you see the posts about the house that tales bought ??  If not,, you should !!  Maybe she can post a link for you !!

[talesofthesevenseas]

We bought a 200-year-old stone house in Tennessee. I am on my phone right now so posting a link is a little difficult, but look up Old Stone House at Clouds Ford on Facebook. Back in the day people used to not only drill holes in coins but smooth over the face or the reverse and etch pictures on them they called them love tokens I have a bracelet and a necklace full of them

[KC]

Talesofthesevenseas we really enjoy hearing of your adventures!