Saved some more history w. F75....

[Bill Ladd]

I had mentioned I had kinda continued my roll over the weekend and tried a couple additional sites besides the "gold site"....
On Sat. I tried to do some digging at my indian place....got many broken pieces of quartz & shell...then these 2 keepers.
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Finally here's some more finds from 2 other sites I tried to work through heavy iron. They include a couple Colonial buttons, & another King George II copper from a cellar hole, & what looks like a copper that was quarter cut in upper right....
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HH,
Bill

 

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[ColonialEraHunter]

I've only had my F75 out a couple of times since I got it because of lousy weather in the northeast.:veryangry: I've found some musket balls, a colonial spoon and buckle and a nice silver ear ring at some of my hammered sites. Most of the hits were deep near heavy iron. I am very impressed with the performance of the F75.

Rich

 

[KurtB]

Logic tells me it's a hole where a cellar used to be. Is it just the spot where the house used to sit? Is it a regional thing? Here in Nebraska there are old cellars that are usually located away from the dwelling. More like a real dark hole in the ground with God only knows what kind of animals in them. Don't know if I would trust going in them. Anyway, I had to ask. Seems like you guys find a ton of stuff in them.

 

[North Georgia Relics]

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

[quote KurtB]Logic tells me it's a hole where a cellar used to be. Is it just the spot where the house used to sit? Is it a regional thing? Here in Nebraska there are old cellars that are usually located away from the dwelling. More like a real dark hole in the ground with God only knows what kind of animals in them. Don't know if I would trust going in them. Anyway, I had to ask. Seems like you guys find a ton of stuff in them.[/quote]

That would be what we'd call a "root cellar" out East - where the 'taters were stored to keep 'em cool(er). "Cellar holes" are the depressions, usually stone lined, where homes used to was.

 

[Bill Ladd]

Charlie, I think you have similar stone lined cellars that we have here in New England, especially if your upstate. Lots of guys in other parts of the country have no idea what we are talking about. Basically it's a square foundation of a Colonial home.....
Ours here are usually large blocks of grey native granite. I have seen other parts of the country they are made out of smaller cut field stone.
Here's a photo of a lonely one we found recently Kurt, (on a hike in the woods this winter).....
HH,
Bill

 

[Bill Ladd]

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[Bill Ladd]

The infamous "Irish shine" cellar hole....named for the rare Irish Repeal button seen in W&E magazine & dug here with the T2....
My buddy Rob is actually sitting on what was the huge center chimney....now toppled. The first "hole" I posted was MUCH smaller, and indicated a "poorer" probably subsitence farmer who had very little.....
HH,
Bill

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

You've got much better looking rocks. Our "bedrock" is shale (fieldstone), and the harder rocks are in the form of glacial artifacts and usually round stones and bolders.

One cellar hole I knew (now sadly posted under new owners who do not tolerate any hunting or M/Ding) had all the stones removed (fences or dug well liners, I suppose). Never found a coin it it, but some white porcelin buttons and a 3" porcelin doll's arm when digging after the routine whatzits. There was a large cent in there. I could just feel it.

 

[KurtB]

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[Bill Ladd]

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[scdigger]

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