San Miguel style brass Buckle (ca. 1700-1750)

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San Miguel style brass Buckle (ca. 1700-1750)

#1 Unread post by PetesPockets55 »

Here is something a little different for everyone. The 1715 Spanish Plate fleet went down in a hurricane along this stretch of coastline.

San Miguel style brass Buckle (ca. 1700-1750)

I went metal detecting to a beach side site today that has been getting cleared more and more for a condo. I wanted to see the progress and whether it might have the trees and brush out of the way. I've been watching it pretty closely, but evidently so have others.
Even though there was some nice white beach sand visible instead of the dark organic stained topsoil, there were also many areas where their digging was evident, in clusters instead of random holes. I took that to mean they were having some success getting hits in certain areas, but my expectations were low for finding anything. Definitely wasn't the early bird today starting at 2:30 and not easy in this Fl sun.
I decided to try the fringes about a foot from where they dug and after only about 3-5 min. I got a solid 80 at 4"-6". Usually around here with my AT Max at "All Metal" a 78 to 82 means aluminum cans.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a brass buckle with the tongue still attached looking back at me.
(This spot was about 75' west of where I found the small decorative brass hinge last year. Here's the link if interested:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/shipw ... ached.html )

Last but not least here is the online reference at Artifacts.org that I found on belt buckles and why I think this one is the San Miguel style, ".. may have served as harness strap/saddlery or small accoutrement buckles"
Bucklepage .


Thanks for looking and any comments because I'm still fairly new at this.
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Re: San Miguel style brass Buckle (ca. 1700-1750)

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Cool find. Odd but I had one of these a long time ago, when I was a kid and had no idea what it was. I don't even know what happened to it.

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#3 Unread post by PetesPockets55 »

That's cool you had one. I never gave much thought to different shapes or sizes produced by different nations.

I thought for sure mine was a shoe buckle but thanks to the linked site realize it was probably equestrian. Length is equal to a WL half and as wide as a Washington quarter.

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Re: San Miguel style brass Buckle (ca. 1700-1750)

#4 Unread post by jimgrains51 »

Thats an interesting find. I remember my granpa had something similar in his basement. We kept playing with it when we were kids and I never knew it was an old buckle. Im going to poke around his basement when I get the chance to visit them.

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