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I need a game plan for this cellar hole

TrpnBils

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I recently came across two house locations on an 1864 map of my area that are actually on family property (why my grandfather never thought to mention them to me, I have no idea, because he definitely knew they were there and has had me over to his place before looking for stuff at another old home site). From what I've gathered, I believe they were abandoned and/or torn down prior to 1900. One of them has its now-unrecognizable footprint filled with water and not too many foundation stones around. The cellar hole for the other (which is about 6 feet deep and probably ~800sqft in area) is plainly visible but is very grown in. I nosed around with my Etrac at the second site and found an 1867 IHP pretty quickly along with some livestock tags, pieces of what looks like it used to be a crock (lying on the surface....going to collect what I can and see how much of it I can piece together), and some other miscellaneous stuff. I definitely found the trash dump for that second house too...bottles everywhere. The houses are about 200-300 feet apart with an old well that is filled in roughly halfway between. Not sure if they shared it or what, but I can only find evidence of the one and my grandfather said they only filled one in when the houses were torn down (he actually used the foundation stones to build his childhood home which is right down the road).

My question is what kind of strategy to take here. This place is located behind my parents' house 3 hours from where I live, and so I only get to detect it for maybe 1-2 hours at a shot if we go up there for a weekend, but I might make a day trip of it sometime this summer to get some extended time there.

It seems to me I'd have better luck AROUND the perimeter of the foundation than actually IN the cellar hole. On the other hand, I'm sure this place didn't have any concrete or anything on the floor, so maybe it would hold something down in the hole itself. What about the well and/or the dump area? I'll be honest, I have no interest in the bottles...some people go nuts for stuff like that, but I don't see the draw to it, sorry.
 
I would not bother with the hole or the well go around the foundation and out at least 100 ft or better you have years of digging in that spot if you can clear an earea with the tractor great ,
 
Thanks - what's still got me shocked is that both of these are within a quarter mile of the house I grew up in and still on my family's property and it took me 30 years til I found out about them even with constantly being out in the woods as a kid!
 
Hay i never knew we had an old depression shack in the woods and to this day i have not been able to hunt it its flooded now , and the mosquitoes are horrendous but they had money to spare because it was not on the books who knows how much went on on your property , keep us posted on the finds,
 
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