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Northern Virginia
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Thanks to my digging partner Monkeyboy this may be my best find ever. The pitdigger and monkeyboy clans hit the woods at a spot that was settled in the 1700's. Monkeyboy has popped out some super early coins that go back to the 1600-1700's over the years. After a few hours of popping out some tombacs, cast pewter and flat buttons I got a huge signal in an area where a natural spring was in the woods.
A few inches in the rocky wet ground I pulled out a large brass disc. The water gave this thing a different looking patina and it was covered in dirt so I carefully put it in my pack and kept digging. I had no idea what I had just found. Once we all took a break I pulled out the disc and handed it to monkeyboy. With a little water he slowly started to see some markings. Without hesitation he yelled SUNDIAL!!! Unreal. All of the roman numerals and markings are hand-engraved with excellent detail. The compassrose is hand engraved or stamped N,S,E,W. I was ecstatic!
After getting home I used a little water to continue to remove the mud and have done nothing else to it. After some research I found out that the early american settlers would use sundials instead of more expensive time pieces. Could be my best find to date!
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Jan 27, 2010, 07:06:00 pm |
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That's a really cool find, never seen one posted before.  |
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wakeman, ohio
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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Jan 27, 2010, 07:23:56 pm |
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by looking at the small hole between the n and s I think it had a compass as well so it would be lined up to give a correct reading. that is very cool indeed, thank you for sharing.
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Jan 27, 2010, 08:34:48 pm |
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amazing find...i say banner
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East of the Rockies
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Jan 27, 2010, 08:39:43 pm |
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OK, y'all knew this was coming . Dirty job, but somebody's got to say it... WHAT A TIMELY DISCOVERY!!!  |
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Jan 27, 2010, 09:09:46 pm |
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I vote banner. Wonderful historical piece.  I would suspect it is more early colonial and maybe a 1600's piece than 1700's. Keep looking down the stream. You may find more of the parts. |
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North Carolina
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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted Jan 27, 2010, 09:44:48 pm |
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nifty
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Let's go dig some history!
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TEXAS
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Reply To This Topic #9 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 01:46:41 am |
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WOW! That is one cool find!
I say BANNER!
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Reply To This Topic #10 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 01:49:53 am |
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nice old watch!! to big to be a pocket watch though  willy |
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Tennessee
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Reply To This Topic #11 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 04:02:59 am |
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That's a neat find. Congrats.
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Pittsfield Ma.
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Reply To This Topic #12 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 04:54:10 am |
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Awesome find! First I've ever seen. Congrats.....Hogge  |
1783 CFT. KG III 1/2 Penny (25-83A)-1 of 3 known *Sold $3,750, Vermont Landscape Coppers Ryder 6 *Sold $760, Ryder7 (Avatar)** Sold $1,275*, Royal Irish Artillery Cartridge Box Sling Belt Tip,(3)- GW Inaugural Buttons-2-Cobb# 17-J.* Sold both--$405 and $400. *GW Button Cobb 17-I
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Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #13 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 05:52:05 am |
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I can honestly say I just never get jealous when other people find great relics.. I just love seeing them come out of the ground... BUT this one... I'm jealous!!! ;-) Great find... Banner... all the way. This is the same spot I dug the 1809 Half Cent.. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,294714.0.html ...stuff comes out in really good shape here.... so that puts it in some sort of date context.. that and all the buttons have been 1700 - early 1800s .. Great Find... MB |
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Shelbyville or any yard where the owner will let me detect!
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Reply To This Topic #14 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 05:55:02 am |
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that is one sweet piece of history !!!  I agree, banner all the way ! |
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mesa az
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Reply To This Topic #15 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 06:03:35 am |
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that is a great find and yet again i am inspired to go out and dig in the dirt. hope to see more from your site gratz
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In da bush
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Reply To This Topic #16 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 06:37:14 am |
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This is a really great find!
Looking closely, I would wager that this sun dial was homemade as the Roman numerals and lines are not straight and therefore not machine made. It looks like it was etched by hand. Even the holes aren't uniform and looked punched out by hand. This would make it more unique as it wasn't mass produced in England and possibly an early American settler made it.
I could be wrong on this but it sure looks homemade.
Fantastic!
Dave.
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Arkansas
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Reply To This Topic #17 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 07:19:12 am |
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Posts: 166
Northern Virginia
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_____________ Civil War Camp Finds - 1700's Sundial_____________
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Reply To This Topic #19 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 08:55:15 am |
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Wow, thanks everyone for your comments. It is definitely a banner find for me! After examining closer it is definitely hand made and hand etched or engraved. I didn't notice it until you guys pointed it out but it also does look like it was a compass as well. I will take some more photos of it tonight and post. I do believe I may have to create a custom display box for this one and hang it prominently on my wall. I really want to do some more research on this.
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NY
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Reply To This Topic #20 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 09:06:03 am |
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I voted banner it's really a striking piece, great patina.
Go back there with a probe, and grid out the area and check downstream/downhill. You may find the pedestal/rod it was mounted on and other related items
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Silver Spring, MD
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Reply To This Topic #21 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 10:02:30 am |
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Congratulations on finding a great piece of American history. I LOVE IT! Banner all the way.
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Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #22 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 10:20:03 am |
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Beautiful sundial what an amazing find!! BANNNER...BANNER...BANNER!! |
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Reply To This Topic #23 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 10:53:40 am |
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Yup, had to hit the old Banner button. That is a very cool find. Maybe with enough time you'll find more of it.  |
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Reply To This Topic #24 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 11:18:12 am |
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That is 1 rare cool find WTG  |
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Northern Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #25 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 11:19:00 am |
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Thank you all for you banner nominations. I just found an awesome article from a historian on time pieces. Read below if interested. "A sundial is one of the oldest—it may be the oldest—of all scientific instruments. It depends on the Earth's rotation, although when it was first contrived, probably before 1500 b.c., its makers believed that the Sun revolved around a stationary Earth. Either way one envisions the heavens, the practice is the same: the Sun shines on the dial, and a protruding "gnomon" (from the Greek for "one who knows"—presumably one who knows what time it is) casts a shadow among the hour lines marked on a dial plate, indicating the time. What could be simpler? Or rather, what could be more deceptive than the apparent simplicity of this device? For in order to make the fallen shadow even approximate the correct time, the dial must be laid out with regard to latitude north or south of the Equator where it is to be used, respecting the changing high point of the Sun in the sky from day to day over the course of the year and the variable speed of the Earth's annual motion....."In the 1700s, after the inventions of the pendulum clock in The Hague and the balance spring in Paris inaugurated the era of precision timekeeping, sundials achieved even greater importance than before. "Just as the computer increased the need for the paper that some people thought it would replace," Andrewes says, "clocks—and later watches—greatly increased the demand for sundials, because every timekeeper needs, at some point, to be set correctly." A clock or watch may keep time, but only a sundial can find time—a distinctly different function—by deriving the hour from the relative positions of the Earth and Sun."...Written # By Dava Sobel # Smithsonian magazine, January 2007 Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/sundial.html |
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Reply To This Topic #26 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 11:23:37 am |
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Great find! I am --deleted-- on sundials and please don't take this the wrong way, but can you explain to me how you know it is 1700's? Is this piece dated? I think it is a great find and congrats! One I would surely like to find! Thank you 99Brown |
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Reply To This Topic #27 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 12:54:22 pm |
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I voted banner! Animals must do it instinctivly, we create tools to aid us. BANNER!
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salisbury, md
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Reply To This Topic #28 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 03:16:03 pm |
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Man that thing is awesome!! I would definitely hang it on my wall. Congrats on a great find! |
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Summerfield Fla.
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Reply To This Topic #29 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 04:05:18 pm |
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Thats a big ole sundial but one unique find for sure Very cool  |
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Chicago Area
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Reply To This Topic #30 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 04:50:36 pm |
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Great find! Ban-ner! Ban-ner! Ban-ner!
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SW Michigan
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Reply To This Topic #31 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 04:57:22 pm |
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An inspiring relic find! Very unique. You get my Banner vote. Keep digging! |
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Cedar Rapids Iowa
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Reply To This Topic #32 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 04:58:11 pm |
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Interesting find
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Northern Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #33 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 05:35:37 pm |
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Just shot a few more pics that seem to significantly better. Thanks for all your comments. Enjoy the new pics!
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Jersey Cape
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Reply To This Topic #34 Posted Jan 28, 2010, 08:04:53 pm |
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Oh my goodness  how did I almost miss this " that was made by a early coppersmith" INCREDIBLE pitdiggers ,where was this found ..above or below ground  Never mind I re read thread .. oxidizes diff. definitely banner U have my vote Congratulations |
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Reply To This Topic #35 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 02:46:21 am |
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Boy, now that it's cleaned up bit more you can really see some detail. I like the scribe lines. It looks like the rosette letters are punched, as well as the gradiations. The numbers look to be a combination of punched and scribed. Looks like the center point was attempted more than once which makes it seem more personal to the craftsman than some manufactured piece. Just keeps looking better. Is it possible to see the flip-side of that disk?
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Northern Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #37 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 03:46:08 am |
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Thanks everyone! Thanks Treasurenet. Your comments are all exciting to read.
I have to thank Monkeyboy for this. First he introduced me to this great site and second he shares his dig sites and research with me which is what lead me to this awesome relic. I hope all of you have as great a digging partner and friend as I.
That is an awesome lead one you found IP. If anyone else has found one I would love to see a pic. I am so pumped I will be researching these things all weekend.
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Reply To This Topic #38 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 03:51:45 am |
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Congratulations on the Banner a rare find indeed i looked up early 18th century sundials and found this made of Pewter it shows what could still be in the dirt the dial ! i thought it might come in handy . Great find Jim |
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Reply To This Topic #39 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 04:00:42 am |
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Great find ! congrats
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Dirtyville
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Reply To This Topic #40 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 04:17:43 am |
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Thanks everyone! Thanks Treasurenet. Your comments are all exciting to read.
I have to thank Monkeyboy for this. First he introduced me to this great site and second he shares his dig sites and research with me which is what lead me to this awesome relic. I hope all of you have as great a digging partner and friend as I.
That is an awesome lead one you found IP. If anyone else has found one I would love to see a pic. I am so pumped I will be researching these things all weekend.
If you happen to come across anything similar to mine I would be interested in seeing it. It was dug with stuff dating mid. 1700s and not later than 1820. I was hoping it was a counterfeit coin when I first seen it, but a sundial is cool too. |
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Central Michigan
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Reply To This Topic #41 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 06:14:42 am |
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Great find!
I think the shadow would need to fall from the center to the number to show local time. What would the holes be used for?
While on the subject of time....
As the railroads worked their way West the US had well over 500 time zones. This was because it was considered to be noon when the sun was at it's highest point in the sky, which was when the sun was also due south. Each railroad station was on a different longtitude. Of course there were clocks then and local time was set by the sun at "Local Apparent Noon" (LAN). It wasn't until the telegraph was in use that there was a way to syncronize clocks in the time zones we use today.
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NC
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Reply To This Topic #42 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 06:18:39 am |
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Awesome relic  Congrats on Banner |
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NW NJ
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Reply To This Topic #43 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 06:43:55 am |
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Cool find !! Congrats on the banner find, you don't see too many of them found. TommNJ |
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Reply To This Topic #44 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 06:59:34 am |
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THAT IS A KILLER FIND! WISH I WAS YOU:
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Reply To This Topic #45 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 07:18:04 am |
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Nice banner find! |
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Herndon Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #47 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 08:04:36 am |
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Superb find!
And congrats on the banner!
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Shelbyville or any yard where the owner will let me detect!
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Reply To This Topic #48 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 08:19:51 am |
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I knew from the moment I saw this, it was only a matter of time before it was on the banner !!! Congrats !!!!! |
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Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #49 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 09:52:49 am |
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Thanks everyone! Thanks Treasurenet. Your comments are all exciting to read.
I have to thank Monkeyboy for this. First he introduced me to this great site and second he shares his dig sites and research with me which is what lead me to this awesome relic. I hope all of you have as great a digging partner and friend as I.
That is an awesome lead one you found IP. If anyone else has found one I would love to see a pic. I am so pumped I will be researching these things all weekend.
Thanks man!! Always a blast digging with you guys.. ;-) Funny how we seem to have great finds at the other's spot!! ..and I will NEVER forget seeing the random 2 foot deep holes that ALWAYS seem to pop out some great relic... even if I happen to run my monkey paws on it and break of the rim of a VA staff button!!!  |
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Reply To This Topic #50 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 01:55:32 pm |
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WooHoo, made the Banner. Huge congrats.  |
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Reply To This Topic #51 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 04:51:12 pm |
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Unbelievable relic!!! What an unusual piece. Congrats PD. -MM- |
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Fern Creek Ky
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Reply To This Topic #52 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 05:32:16 pm |
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That is cool. Like most, that's the first one i have seen dug.
Congrats on the banner.
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Western PA
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Reply To This Topic #53 Posted Jan 29, 2010, 07:10:06 pm |
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I hope you find the pointer part, that is a superb relic I love it |
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South Africa
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Reply To This Topic #54 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 02:33:25 am |
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Does anyone have the time great find God bless Peter |
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Reply To This Topic #55 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 04:52:29 am |
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What little I know about antique sundials, is that they were often made by clock makers, and were very often signed, because clock makers were in guilds , at least in England. If this was imported at that time, then you might find a signature lurking beneath the patina and dirt, that then would be able to give you a better dating.
Good luck.. It is a one beautiful piece of history.
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Bavaria Germany
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Reply To This Topic #56 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 06:35:16 am |
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Congrats on the awesome sundial! Would be great to find the arm for it. HH, Mike
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Flowery Branch, North Georgia
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Reply To This Topic #57 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 08:25:38 am |
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Congrats on a great find, I'm not well versed in the art of sundials but someone at the North American sundial society surely is. Here is the link. http://sundials.org/ Try and contact someone there and maybe they can help. Again, congratulations on a great find! |
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Reply To This Topic #58 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 08:40:19 am |
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nice time piece.
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West Michigan
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Reply To This Topic #59 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 09:11:02 am |
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Very cool dial you got there P.D. I would try cleaning it up and mounting it someway. To find the missing part, would be awesome. It is at least a wall hanger!
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Northern Virginia
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Reply To This Topic #60 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 05:11:07 pm |
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This has been an exciting couple of days and all of your comments have been great to read. Thanks goes out to chemist100 for hooking me up with the NASS website. This national sundial association has a ton of info and will also be holding their annual conference on the MALL in Washington DC in October. There is some awesome history associated with early american sundials and hopefully I will here something back from them this week.
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Flowery Branch, North Georgia
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Reply To This Topic #61 Posted Jan 31, 2010, 06:33:10 am |
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Thats great, I hope you found some useful info. Keep us posted when you hear anything!!! You said in your post that you found this where a natural spring was, it might be possible that the area used to be used as a garden. I read somewhere that these things were placed near gardens and fountians. You should really try to see if you can find the other peice. Again, cool find!!!
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Posts: 583
Detector used Detector(s) Used - spectra V3,MXT
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Reply To This Topic #62 Posted Feb 01, 2010, 07:54:09 am |
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sweet find!!!! congrats on the banner |
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Posts: 329
Detector used Detector(s) Used - minelab explorer xs
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Reply To This Topic #63 Posted Feb 01, 2010, 11:53:38 am |
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my congratulation!!! very interesting find!
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Posts: 1820
Connecticut
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Whites DFX, and prizm 3
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Reply To This Topic #64 Posted Feb 01, 2010, 04:44:23 pm |
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wow, I thought I allready posted on this thread.....what a fine peice of history you uncovered. I can imagine people consulting this instrument to find out the time of day. Amazing.
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Posts: 3325
North Carolina
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's DFX & Spectrum~Garrett's Pro-Pointer~VibraProbe
_____________ African Slave Trade Bracelet 1700-1750 - Indian Wars Era NC Staff Button_____________
Primary Interest: All Types Of Treasure Hunting
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Reply To This Topic #65 Posted Feb 01, 2010, 05:11:57 pm |
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SUPER find! Congrats! Breezie |
Every time I watch Gone With The Wind, I think we're gonna win this time!
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Posts: 585
Bedford County, PA
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Etrac, Another Etrac :) , GPX5000
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Reply To This Topic #66 Posted Feb 02, 2010, 06:47:22 am |
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Posts: 270
bennington vermont
Detector used Detector(s) Used - whites prism IV
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Reply To This Topic #67 Posted Feb 02, 2010, 11:01:13 am |
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WOW , Thats Beautiful ! Congrats 2 you vermonster
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Posts: 22
Cincinnati
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Whatever nu2poo loans me
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Reply To This Topic #68 Posted Feb 02, 2010, 12:27:53 pm |
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A very cool relic !
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Reply To This Topic #69 Posted Feb 05, 2010, 06:49:21 pm |
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Super Find bud! I'd be thanking MonkeyBoy right about now he is a good dude |
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" Yo Momma "
Posts: 1042
Shreveport, Louisiana
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Minelab E-Trac, Minelab Explorer II, Whites Dfx
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Reply To This Topic #70 Posted Feb 13, 2010, 01:24:22 pm |
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Really cool find !! Never heard of one showing up anywhere!
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I SUGGEST WHEN YOUR IQ REACHES 75.........SELL!!!
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Reply To This Topic #71 Posted Mar 02, 2010, 05:32:04 pm |
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super sweet
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