On private property with landowners permission for the interested archies
My buddy & I found a strange area hiking in the woods that was above a stream & surrounded by stone walls. We found it in the winter so it had never seen a detector. There were no foundations that we saw, just weird walls & rock outcroppings. We wondered for awhile if it was an Indian site, or a fort of some type. Finally, on a day off, I hiked back there to try to solve the mystery.......
As soon as I turned the F75 on I saw iron hits galore, so I was pretty sure it was not a Native American site. There were nails everywhere like we see at cellar holes, so I followed the path of iron signals toward this strange stone platform in the center of all the stonewall enclosures...(see wall running along back).
[attachment 137915 WGHplatform.jpg]
Finally, I got into some higher conductive signals (I was running 0 disc) & the first of 2 Colonial buttons surfaced. One a big coat button the size of a GW but I can't seem to get one that has a GW on it this year
[attachment 137916 WGHplatformbuttons.jpg]
The 3rd button I dug was the best one as I worked my way around "the platform"......
I saw the glint of silver & thought I had a Spanish Reale', but instead a nice silver relic in the form of a Late 1700's silver button with the popular "sunburst" motif. I continued to dig buttons all the way around this thing, & kept wondering what the heck it was? There was another fragile pewter button that disintegrated in my hands as it saw the light of day after 200+ years. Pewter was common in the Colonies, and this is one of my problems with the archies when they tell me we should be leaving it all in the ground. Pewter is rotting away completely & sadly copper is getting worse by the day too.....
Anyhow.......I looked hard for a coin, & dug another piece that represents Colonial "change making" in the form of cutting coins up.....I dug a half a large cent recently you saw, and this site produced a 1/4 cut copper which I rarely see/ dig. I like digging these interesting/ unique pieces of Colonial history in the original Colonies......(the cut coins are bottom left alongside some other coins I dug recently too as I don't have separate pics).
[attachment 137917 WGHcuts.jpg]
It didn't look like this was the platform/foundation to a house or anything, and many nearby hamlets had "meeting rocks", "threshing rocks" & "treaty rocks"......
So my best guess is it's probably a 1700's meeting type rock. It does not look like much, & if I wasn't running like an all metal setting, I never would have followed my way to an innocent looking rock pile. There are rock plies all over that are usually just piles from a farmer removing them from his fields. Obviously this was alot more......
I only spent like an hour out there, so I'm sure there's more to be found. Gutta be more coins, & there could be a cellar hole nearby too?.......
I'll be back soon & I'll keep ya posted.......
HH,
Bill
My buddy & I found a strange area hiking in the woods that was above a stream & surrounded by stone walls. We found it in the winter so it had never seen a detector. There were no foundations that we saw, just weird walls & rock outcroppings. We wondered for awhile if it was an Indian site, or a fort of some type. Finally, on a day off, I hiked back there to try to solve the mystery.......
As soon as I turned the F75 on I saw iron hits galore, so I was pretty sure it was not a Native American site. There were nails everywhere like we see at cellar holes, so I followed the path of iron signals toward this strange stone platform in the center of all the stonewall enclosures...(see wall running along back).
[attachment 137915 WGHplatform.jpg]
Finally, I got into some higher conductive signals (I was running 0 disc) & the first of 2 Colonial buttons surfaced. One a big coat button the size of a GW but I can't seem to get one that has a GW on it this year
[attachment 137916 WGHplatformbuttons.jpg]
The 3rd button I dug was the best one as I worked my way around "the platform"......
I saw the glint of silver & thought I had a Spanish Reale', but instead a nice silver relic in the form of a Late 1700's silver button with the popular "sunburst" motif. I continued to dig buttons all the way around this thing, & kept wondering what the heck it was? There was another fragile pewter button that disintegrated in my hands as it saw the light of day after 200+ years. Pewter was common in the Colonies, and this is one of my problems with the archies when they tell me we should be leaving it all in the ground. Pewter is rotting away completely & sadly copper is getting worse by the day too.....
Anyhow.......I looked hard for a coin, & dug another piece that represents Colonial "change making" in the form of cutting coins up.....I dug a half a large cent recently you saw, and this site produced a 1/4 cut copper which I rarely see/ dig. I like digging these interesting/ unique pieces of Colonial history in the original Colonies......(the cut coins are bottom left alongside some other coins I dug recently too as I don't have separate pics).
[attachment 137917 WGHcuts.jpg]
It didn't look like this was the platform/foundation to a house or anything, and many nearby hamlets had "meeting rocks", "threshing rocks" & "treaty rocks"......
So my best guess is it's probably a 1700's meeting type rock. It does not look like much, & if I wasn't running like an all metal setting, I never would have followed my way to an innocent looking rock pile. There are rock plies all over that are usually just piles from a farmer removing them from his fields. Obviously this was alot more......
I only spent like an hour out there, so I'm sure there's more to be found. Gutta be more coins, & there could be a cellar hole nearby too?.......
I'll be back soon & I'll keep ya posted.......
HH,
Bill