Putting the pieces together

[kcsteve]

Found a cool looking flintlock piece 2 days ago. I have found 3 other brass pieces that I think might go to the same weapon. I'm trying to date the pieces based off of pictures found on the Internet. I drew a pic of the flintlock pistol to show where I think they go and also posted a pic of the pistol that I think resembles the pieces. I'm thinking this flintlock might possibly date back to about the 1760's. It might have gone to a British Light Dragoon (Cavalry) pistol. This is the closest match I could find. Sure is fun trying to match and put the pieces together to unravel the mystery.
I wish everyone a wonderful Merry Christmas!

 

[Tennessee]

Great pictures

Great pics and what a nice find those should clean up neat and display well. I hope you get the rest of that bad boy what a story that would make.

Later Will

 

[Bama Dave]

Great post- I didnt know the Brits got that far west. Prob a war vet moving in search of greener pastures. Just goes to show you need to dig every signal as you never know what might turn up.

BD

 

[vegasharp]

Hey KC Steve,

That is just cool, cool, cool. With the buttons and these parts, you have provenance for the pre-Civil War era flintlocks.

Great job and thanks for the sketches and the photos.

Rodney

 

[kcsteve]

Thanks Rodney!
Early explorers may have inhabited this area. Just the other day I found a Scottish Thisle button dating possibly around (1790-1800) which puts a wrench in my theory. Geez...now I have to go back to the drawing board. Thought I had this site figured out. Oh well, that's what I love about this hobby.

 

[vegasharp]

Hey Steve,

Remember the forum discussions concerning campsites: that a good campsite will be used by many different groups over many years.

You've just got to figure on which layers in the strata you're finding these things.

Good luck !

Rodney

 

[kcsteve]

Rodney,
Here is a good example of which "strata layer" this stuff is coming from. Yesterday (New Years) I pulled out my first complete piece of epaulet (shoulder scale) it was every bit 13''deep. I've got the pic to show you how deep I dug. This was my first full complete piece. In the past I have always found bits and pieces of epaulet 4 or 5 inches deep but this one was down at the level where I think it was ground zero during THAT period. If only I had permission to dig deep holes, no telling what I would bring up on this hillside.

 

[vegasharp]

Hey Steve,

That's a DEEP hole. I bet if the epaulet was buried on it's edge, you may never have known it was there.

Were you using the MXT ? What kind of signal did you get ? Did you use the pin pointer when the hole got deeper and deeper ?

Thanks for the photos !

Rodney

 

[kcsteve]

Your right Rodney, if the brass piece was on edge I may never have found it. I use the MXT esclusively on this site and when I got this hit, it was an "iffy signal" but I'm digging all signals anyway. You ought to see my collection of square nails! LOL!!!
I used the pinpointer continually. It's funny, when the MXT searchcoil gives a high pitch sound (indicating non iron target) has been located, I will remove about 6''of dirt with shovel, recheck hole with pinpointer and at this point the pinpointer will most always give a low tone (indicating iron) even though the search coil gave a high pitch (non iron) signal. So my point is, once the dirt has been removed and I check it with the pinpointer, at THAT point it gives a TRUE reading whether iron or non iron. In this case, yes, the closer and deeper I got towards this epualet piece, the probe continued to give a HIGH PITCH TONE which told me to start lick'n my chops because it was something old and non iron. Take care.