I went to a few cellar holes this past weekend, usually they are nothing special, basically a dug hole in the woodos but these two had a different feeling, maybe because of the settings. The first cellar in the woods is approached by an old town road through the woods. You can tell it's a town road by the stone walls on either side.[attachment 74128 RoadtoMcEwancellarhole11-25-07-1.jpg] There will be a break in the wall on the high side and you can see the mound of dirt from long ago. This cellar was the only one on this road which probably went a mile from two main roads which are used today.[attachment 74129 McEwancellarhole11-25-07-1.jpg] I stood there and looked to the hills to the East and tried to imagine the view without any trees, just fields as far as you can see. It's times like this that I appreciate the hard work those early settlers did in digging that hole in the first place, building a house on top of it and a barn, digging a well and then going on to clear acres of field. Of course, someone had to build that road in the first place and build those stone walls. It's amazing to think about and when we have a hard day at the "office," it's nothing compared to what our forefathers went through.
The second cellar was on top of a rolling field.[attachment 74130 Walpole11-25-07-1.jpg] The hole was to my back and looked out over many acres and way into another state. Again, most of the trees weren't there in the 1800's. They used wood for amost everything and they needed the pasture for hay and crops. This is the cellar where I found the things I posted last night and I hardly ever come across a site so pretty. To have the cellar and a field surrounding it is like icing on the cake.[attachment 74132 Walpole211-25-07-1.jpg]
Detecting has taken me many different places, spots that some people never see and that's kind of a shame. If more people could see where their roots started and the simplicity of life back them, maybe they would work a little harder to preserve the past and stop poisioning this great planet. I'm getting a little political, so I'll stop right here. Ron
The second cellar was on top of a rolling field.[attachment 74130 Walpole11-25-07-1.jpg] The hole was to my back and looked out over many acres and way into another state. Again, most of the trees weren't there in the 1800's. They used wood for amost everything and they needed the pasture for hay and crops. This is the cellar where I found the things I posted last night and I hardly ever come across a site so pretty. To have the cellar and a field surrounding it is like icing on the cake.[attachment 74132 Walpole211-25-07-1.jpg]
Detecting has taken me many different places, spots that some people never see and that's kind of a shame. If more people could see where their roots started and the simplicity of life back them, maybe they would work a little harder to preserve the past and stop poisioning this great planet. I'm getting a little political, so I'll stop right here. Ron