I choose the path least traveled.

[John 'n' W.Va]

It was a beautiful day in the mid 60's, so I headed for the park.

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I didn't want to go the places that have been MD'ed a 1000 times, so I took off through the woods. I found places that use to be part of the park, but they let the woods over grow it all. I have no idea what this was? My first hit was beside it and it was a 1920 buffalo nickel.

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I went on down the hill and found where an old house use to be. My topo's says it was there before 1920. I think this is the spring house. it probably had a roof on it at one time.

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I found a horse shoe and an iron lid to a pot. Also a 1944 quarter.

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As I was making my way back to the car I started finding wheat's.

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I found a piece of a change purse and a pocket knife. The thing on the left I think is a buckle of some type. Lipstick on the right.
When I got close to the car I found my first clad and then it was clad all the way.

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[treasurefiend]

Great finds, Im sure if you check around the cellar, or in the cellar you will find more coin!!!! Way to go!!!!

 

[awhitster]

Nice finds john. I'd like to find a park like that around here.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

[quote awhitster]Nice finds john. I'd like to find a park like that around here.[/quote]


I'll share my park with you. It's a big one. It has the nastiest mineralized soil around.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Very nice finds John. Robert Frost wrote a nice poem in 1920 which we all took in school??? yes/no and it is quite applicable to your type of hunt today. Nice photos too

<center>TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I

 

[Rainman]

Nice work, anytime you are finding buffalos and silver, you're in the right place.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

It sure pays to be adventurous John. Nice Hunt.
Mick Evans.

 

[dahut]

Nice. Thats what its all about - finding the lesser traveled path. Thats where the untouched stuff still lies. I found one yesterday; the path, that is. we'll see if it holds any treasures. Nice nice nice findings, John.

 

[Bozack]

How deep was the buffalo?

 

[lainylainy]

Wow, that's amazing. Parks around here are boring and new. Must be nice - even with the nasty soil!

 

[robert roy]

Verrrryyyyyyyy NICE!!!!!

Robert R

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

[quote Bozack]How deep was the buffalo?[/quote]

The buffalo was only 2" deep and some of the wheat's were nearly on the surface. Others were maybe 4". The highly mineralized ground might keep me from going any deeper. The ID is also messed up. When I let Fl. and came to WV. this was the first placed I MD'ed. I was ready to throw the Ace away. Then I found out that not all of WV's soil was like this place. There is so much coal in the soil at this park and the hot rocks hit in the silver area.

 

[cwilk]

Nice stuff. How have you missed that spot for so long?

Could that first structure be an old smokehouse?

Chris

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

Great finds!

Congrats!

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

[quote cwilk]Nice stuff. How have you missed that spot for so long?

Could that first structure be an old smokehouse?

Chris[/quote]

It is too small to be a smoke house. It has a 12" clay pipe going down in the center of it that is full of dirt. Maybe a well at one time? Too small for a privy. Nearby was a large stone park style grill in decay.

 

[dahut]

Sounds like a well head.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Interesting finds. There must be more.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

You need a 2500 or a Scorpion. Hard telling what you could uncover.

Bill