Very sorry this took so long, but here goes...
As you may recall a few months ago a buddy of mine called me to help him locate the parts to an old buggy that he found in the woods. Waaaay back in the woods...The extraction of the buggy required skyline equipment that as a forester he has access to. Here's a couple pics of the site as we found it:
You might notice that one metal hoop to a formerly wooden wheel is visible on the surface, he brought me down to see if I could detect the others with my Time Ranger. We found one more straight away, and then we pinged so much stuff in the vacinity that I resorted to laying down markers so that he could come back later and dig up anything else of interest.
Another wheel was found bringing the total to three. Since the fourth was not recovered our theory is that it was broken during use and thus the buggy and remaining wheels were abandoned in place.
Here's a couple of pics of the buggy and wheels:
Then there was all the stuff in the area that we found as well...most prominently an axe head, the hitch and pin, as well as other buggy bits...and a chunk of smokey colored quartz. Now I don't yet know why the detector pinged the rock, but perhaps, just perhaps gold?
Now here's the bummer yet best part...the bummer being that I spaced out on getting a pic of it for you, but he also found at the same depth as the rest of it the bottom of a large glass bottle. It was clearly dated 1915. Schweeet!
As you may recall a few months ago a buddy of mine called me to help him locate the parts to an old buggy that he found in the woods. Waaaay back in the woods...The extraction of the buggy required skyline equipment that as a forester he has access to. Here's a couple pics of the site as we found it:
You might notice that one metal hoop to a formerly wooden wheel is visible on the surface, he brought me down to see if I could detect the others with my Time Ranger. We found one more straight away, and then we pinged so much stuff in the vacinity that I resorted to laying down markers so that he could come back later and dig up anything else of interest.
Another wheel was found bringing the total to three. Since the fourth was not recovered our theory is that it was broken during use and thus the buggy and remaining wheels were abandoned in place.
Here's a couple of pics of the buggy and wheels:
Then there was all the stuff in the area that we found as well...most prominently an axe head, the hitch and pin, as well as other buggy bits...and a chunk of smokey colored quartz. Now I don't yet know why the detector pinged the rock, but perhaps, just perhaps gold?
Now here's the bummer yet best part...the bummer being that I spaced out on getting a pic of it for you, but he also found at the same depth as the rest of it the bottom of a large glass bottle. It was clearly dated 1915. Schweeet!