(Ode to JL......Chapter II)
I hooked up with Rob & Howard early Sunday morning to get back to some serious relic hunting. I like teaching the little ones how to detect, but it was nice to get back into the woods again. I had a graduation party in the afternoon, so we met early for breakfast & decided to hike back to "The Poachers Lair".
If you've been following along closely, this is the patch of forest where we followed some stone walls & came up on a cellar hole & a stone "fort-like" enclosure a couple months back. Remember we saw an orange hunter hat on the ground, & then we yelled & the hat jumped up & ran!! 
A deer poacher who gut spooked is best we can figure.....(but heck he gave the site a cool nickname anyhow) 
First we followed some colonial stone walls into the woods & down a slight slope amid the fresh green ferns. Soon we see the walls cut across & form a lane headed left. Here's Howard & Rob about to enter a cart opening & follow the colonial road (less traveled)
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The lane goes into an animal pen & then on a sight rise to the right in a clearing is this dandy Colonial cellar hole. Cause for celebration
& no sign of any poaching this time.
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We detected hard for a good few hours, everyone getting some relics. There were alot of targets as we figured the site was a farm operation & active to the turn of the century. (I had an 1882 indian head before we gut run last time). The site was mega-loaded with iron & 12 ga. shells, but we just dug 'em all out. Rob was using my Edge as he just ordered one himself from Mr. Bill. We all dug flat buttons, rosettes, spoons, & other assorted relics. We were hoping for a largie or 2 but the only coin this morning was Howard's 1867 Indian head in the same hole as a harmonica reed. After about 20 shotgun shells, I finally got on the board myself with a nice cuff button. The "Shine" post below explains that it's a rare Revenue Cutter uniform button. A precursor of what's now like the coast guard & dates to around 1848 or so....
Makes you wonder...did the farmer have a vistor or family member by in uniform to lose that button?
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After a quick lunch break, & some probing for a possible dump with the soil core probe I brought back from DIV-5, we emptied our pockets of some of the better relics & spread them on a piece of granite which was actually a front step in colonial days.....(imagine who stepped right here hundereds of years ago).
Rob kinda chopped up that spoon pretty darn good
[attachment 29245 HSholefinds.jpg]
We all decided to look over the stone walls for dumps. I thought behind the barns would be alikely spot to throw trash & set my C$ to run all metal. As soon as I jumped the wall the C$ went spastic. Howard pulled 2 large iron farm tools outta the ground & we gut excited. Then Rob stepped on a flask that was just under the surface & it broke....but we knew we had a dump. Here's Rob & Howard tearing it up along the stone wall....[attachment 29242 HSholedump1.jpg]
You can see some of the bottles starting to pile up on the wall above them (in front of my Orange "poachers" hat I got free @ DIV-5)....
We found some medicines, sodas, etc.....mostly 1880-90's stuff from the farms dying days. But, it was fun to pull out some whole bottles for a change rather than trying to glue 'em Howard got a nice amber ink as seen here in this group of finds.....
[attachment 29243 HSholedump2.jpg]
There's more dump to dig, & more soil to detect.....hope you enjoyed the pictures
(JL style)
HH, Bill
I hooked up with Rob & Howard early Sunday morning to get back to some serious relic hunting. I like teaching the little ones how to detect, but it was nice to get back into the woods again. I had a graduation party in the afternoon, so we met early for breakfast & decided to hike back to "The Poachers Lair".
If you've been following along closely, this is the patch of forest where we followed some stone walls & came up on a cellar hole & a stone "fort-like" enclosure a couple months back. Remember we saw an orange hunter hat on the ground, & then we yelled & the hat jumped up & ran!! A deer poacher who gut spooked is best we can figure.....(but heck he gave the site a cool nickname anyhow) First we followed some colonial stone walls into the woods & down a slight slope amid the fresh green ferns. Soon we see the walls cut across & form a lane headed left. Here's Howard & Rob about to enter a cart opening & follow the colonial road (less traveled)
[attachment 29239 HShole1.jpg]
The lane goes into an animal pen & then on a sight rise to the right in a clearing is this dandy Colonial cellar hole. Cause for celebration
& no sign of any poaching this time. [attachment 29241 HShole2.jpg]
We detected hard for a good few hours, everyone getting some relics. There were alot of targets as we figured the site was a farm operation & active to the turn of the century. (I had an 1882 indian head before we gut run last time). The site was mega-loaded with iron & 12 ga. shells, but we just dug 'em all out. Rob was using my Edge as he just ordered one himself from Mr. Bill. We all dug flat buttons, rosettes, spoons, & other assorted relics. We were hoping for a largie or 2 but the only coin this morning was Howard's 1867 Indian head in the same hole as a harmonica reed. After about 20 shotgun shells, I finally got on the board myself with a nice cuff button. The "Shine" post below explains that it's a rare Revenue Cutter uniform button. A precursor of what's now like the coast guard & dates to around 1848 or so....
Makes you wonder...did the farmer have a vistor or family member by in uniform to lose that button?
[attachment 29244 HSholefinds2.jpg]
After a quick lunch break, & some probing for a possible dump with the soil core probe I brought back from DIV-5, we emptied our pockets of some of the better relics & spread them on a piece of granite which was actually a front step in colonial days.....(imagine who stepped right here hundereds of years ago).
Rob kinda chopped up that spoon pretty darn good
[attachment 29245 HSholefinds.jpg]
We all decided to look over the stone walls for dumps. I thought behind the barns would be alikely spot to throw trash & set my C$ to run all metal. As soon as I jumped the wall the C$ went spastic. Howard pulled 2 large iron farm tools outta the ground & we gut excited. Then Rob stepped on a flask that was just under the surface & it broke....but we knew we had a dump. Here's Rob & Howard tearing it up along the stone wall....[attachment 29242 HSholedump1.jpg]
You can see some of the bottles starting to pile up on the wall above them (in front of my Orange "poachers" hat I got free @ DIV-5)....
We found some medicines, sodas, etc.....mostly 1880-90's stuff from the farms dying days. But, it was fun to pull out some whole bottles for a change rather than trying to glue 'em
Howard got a nice amber ink as seen here in this group of finds.....[attachment 29243 HSholedump2.jpg]
There's more dump to dig, & more soil to detect.....hope you enjoyed the pictures
(JL style)
HH, Bill
That's a bunch of glass too. Looks like you guys will get a few more trips to that site. Congratulations to all of you on some cool stuff!
Looks like there could be more out there though......