A gold watch. We broke up a new garden plot on the edge of our yard and found the ground full of metal bits and pieces. An older lady relative who worked for the people who homesteaded our farm in the late 1800's-early 1900's, said that was those folks place to fix machinery. Among the metal bits to come out of the ground, was the center case and rear inner cover of a gold pocket watch. The steel watch movement was rusted away, but of coarse the gold was still shiny and intact. A relative who is a watch and clock collector looked at that watch case and says it is a pre 1862 lever set watch. He could tell this by the lever set notch in the case. I used a metal detector to search for the other watch covers, hoping one might have engraving that would identify the owner, but no luck. The ground is so full of metal that moving the metal detector one ft produces a dozen hits. The metal detector gives a different tone for non ferrous metals like brass or gold, and I have found some of that in the form of door knobs and plates and shell casings, but no more gold watch parts. I suspect they are right beside or under a big chunk of iron / steel, so the detector is telling me that what is on that spot is iron / steel. We have since let the garden plot go back to grass, so I suspect those other watch parts will never be found.
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