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Silver Loyalist Shoe Buckle

26 Jun 2014

Last year, shortly after purchasing my new Minelab E-TRAC, I took it for a test swing at one of my Loyalist sites. It was iron infested and tough going, but managed well in TTF. I pulled a few 1797 cartwheel pennies and a 1786 Massachusetts copper from around the foundation. I was amazed at how well the E-TRAC saw the coppers through all of the nails!! Next signal was a broken, choppy signal and that is all I remember about it now. If my memory serves me correctly, it was about 7" down. I dug the plug and at the bottom of the hole was this ugly black thing which I thought was junk. I threw it in my pouch and didn't think any more of it. When I got home and was going through my finds for the day, I pulled that item out again. I looked at it pretty hard before I realized what it was, and even then, still thought that it may be pewter. I started to clean it off, at that point knowing it was a shoe buckle, when I noticed a glimmer of silver! Sure enough, its silver alright!! I was able to identify it using the Whitehead Buckle Book. It's a handmade silver Loyalist Officers shoe buckle that dates 1780-1788. It was my favourite find last year, and still one of my favourite finds to date. Given the research I have done to identify the Loyalist who owned the grant, it is without question his silver shoe buckle, as he was the only ranking officer with a grant near this site. So much history out there folks, and so much fun to find!!

 

Chris O. - Canada

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