Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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[size=large]I met Chris at 7 in the morning, we were on our way to check out a new home site. Chris delivers fuel to the loggers that log large tracks of land, sometimes far into the woods, this place is a mile from the nearest road. They know that we like to metal detect, so they tell Chris when they find an old home site or foundation. We wanted to get an early start and try and beat the heat. By 9:00 it was already too hot. Here's a picture of Chris inside the foundation of an old house site. I told him that if there were any copperheads around in this area, they'd be in those rock piles. All snakes love rock piles, and with the amount of rusting tin roofing laying around this old home place, it was a snake haven. The picture below is not a snake we saw but just an example of my point that copperheads love rocks. [/size]
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[size=large]Most of the area was undetectable because of chest high bushes and grass with a good amount of poison sumac and poison ivy thrown in. About 50 yards away we found another stone foundation sunken into the ground with one end open. I don't think this was a home site, I think it was possibly a barn foundation. The place is pretty old, will certainly go back when the loggers get back to it in about a week or two and clear some of this brush and trees off.[/size]
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[size=large]We did manage to find a few things there in the places that we could actually get the coil to the ground and actually swing it. Very old door knob, ball peen hammer and part of a pressed tin baby doll. Should be some interesting finds when we get back there. Thanks for looking,
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[size=large]I met Chris at 7 in the morning, we were on our way to check out a new home site. Chris delivers fuel to the loggers that log large tracks of land, sometimes far into the woods, this place is a mile from the nearest road. They know that we like to metal detect, so they tell Chris when they find an old home site or foundation. We wanted to get an early start and try and beat the heat. By 9:00 it was already too hot. Here's a picture of Chris inside the foundation of an old house site. I told him that if there were any copperheads around in this area, they'd be in those rock piles. All snakes love rock piles, and with the amount of rusting tin roofing laying around this old home place, it was a snake haven. The picture below is not a snake we saw but just an example of my point that copperheads love rocks. [/size]
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[size=large]Most of the area was undetectable because of chest high bushes and grass with a good amount of poison sumac and poison ivy thrown in. About 50 yards away we found another stone foundation sunken into the ground with one end open. I don't think this was a home site, I think it was possibly a barn foundation. The place is pretty old, will certainly go back when the loggers get back to it in about a week or two and clear some of this brush and trees off.[/size]
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[size=large]We did manage to find a few things there in the places that we could actually get the coil to the ground and actually swing it. Very old door knob, ball peen hammer and part of a pressed tin baby doll. Should be some interesting finds when we get back there. Thanks for looking,
Vernon [/size]
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