I Found An Old Spring! 2 Mercs!

[NCtoad]

When I don’t feel like driving anywhere I usually go up the hill in the woods by my house.  This property is owned by the company I work for so I have free reign of it.  Not too long ago I was up there and besides headstamps and bullets I found a harmonica reed.  So yesterday I headed up there and found an area where I was getting a lot of iron signals.  First thing I dug was an old rusty handsaw blade.  Then I found what I think is an iron stirrup.  Not sure if that’s what it is, but maybe someone here can give a positive ID.  Then I started finding headstamps including only my second 10 gauge headstamp.  As I worked my way up a small branch, I noticed a rock spring well!   I was detecting as I walked towards it and got a nice sweet high tone well using sensitive FT.  It rang up 91-93 and I just knew it was going to be a silver dime.  I was hoping for a barber, but it was a ‘34 merc.  I rescanned that hole and got a another exact same signal about a foot away and out pops a ‘24 merc!   I’m so happy I found this spot because I have another place close to home to go.  BTW, there’s another old spring with similar rock work that is closer to my house.  I’ve pounded that one and got I think five silvers.  Although the rock work is similar the one close to the house uses mortar but the one up the hill looks to be dry stacked.  

[NCtoad]

Pics of the spring closer to my house. These springs are in my estimation about a quarter mile from each other with the one I just found maybe a 150-200 feet higher in elevation.  

[JCR]

All very nice. That is some pretty rock work on the spring. It is nice that it is in such good shape. That spring was very important long ago & saw a lot of visitors. There almost has to be an old house site associated with each of those springs. I think your "stirrup" is actually a wagon part. There should be some buttons & more old coins there too.

[F350Platinum]

I'm out of likes, but great photos! I can feel the woods. 👍 Glad you walked out of there with a couple silvers, that's a great day. 🙂

[Rick N. MI]

That's a cool. Nice hunting.

[Dirtshark]

Awesome! 

Love the mercs!

 

[rvpopeye]

Nice mercs  ! I've never seen a spring built like those.The one I have seen is a concrete "bucket" covered with a concrete slab and a chain.......one other spring was just a pipe coming out of a hill. Removed now.

 like button substitute 👍

[Tometusns]

Nice finds ands cool pics!

[deathray]

Nice. And yep, that looks like a stirrup!

[NCtoad]

I’ve been making the steep hike up to this old spring on weekdays after work.  I haven’t found any more coins, but lots of headstamps and other relics.  This past Thursday I found an old building site.  Maybe 50 or 60 yards from the spring I noticed a corner of a stone foundation and the outline of a rectangular shape maybe 20’x20’.  Just the one corner still had stones for the foundation.  I didn’t find any non-ferrous inside the foundation and only one ferrous, a bullet, on the outside just a few feet from the foundation.  The badge was found on the other side of the spring fron where the foundation is.  Here’s some pics: