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Those of you following along with my adventures on here will probably remember the awesome cellar hole we found last year just as hunting season began (& we almost dodged some .22 boolets
I called it "The shoe buckle inn" because it produced 4 colonial buckles (3 complete!) the first try. Anyhow, here's what the foundation looks like again....
[attachment 21031 bJ-3-2005.jpg] a real nice center hearth colonial.
Rob & Howard joined me, & Rob had found a place to park right near this hole (that took a mile off our hike!). We saw that new houses are going in fast & this place was not gonna be here long due to "progress" The landowner already gave us permission, & here's Howard inside the barn foundation with Rob working the outside.....
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We began digging a ton of iron, & figured this site was active till the Civil War or so. I dug lots of iron because I was still in "DIV Practice mode" That means I was running the C$ on all metal most all of the afternoon. This is just our second time hunting here & we still know there's alot more. Howard picked one area & got going first with several nice relics. A large colonial coat button & a womans broach/pin thingy, spoons, etc...While Rob & I were busy rushing all over the place skipping around lookin' for a +31 Largie signal on our C$'s
It looked for a min. like we might get skunked & I even talked about heading to another hole, as alls I had was a "GW fake out". That's a decorated colonial button that sure looked like a dang G. Washington Inaugural!
(instead of seein' a GW I brush off a flower!). But we kept at it, & Rob & I both got a coin back to back....(we did a "bottom feed" as they say) 
Rob's was a really nice AU looking 1863 Fat Indian head....While I got on the board with my first silver piece of the year....an 1856 Half dime & the "GW fakie"
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The half dime was deep....7-8" at least & I doubt I would have got to it without the use of all metal.....
After a lunch break we decided to check out a mill area nearby. We located it last time as it was getting dark & could easily get to it by GPS. I suggested we take a different route on hope of finding another cellar hole. Right away we found a small cemetary not known about from early 1800's. Then we get to a hillside & we began to see rock stacks everywhere. This is a sure sign of colonial farming as farmers plowed up the rocks & then piled them up. Here's a photo I took of them....
[attachment 21036 BJ4cairns.jpg] 1 in front & several in background...
Seeing nice stone walls ahead we split up & decided to use our cell phones if we gut separated. They didn't get to far when I saw a hearth mound & ran up to another real early foundation & began screaming "HOLE!!!" They ran up & all gave hi-5's. It's exitng to run into an un-hunted cellar hole in the woods....especially one that looks like it could be 1600's...
[attachment 21038 BJ4-1600.jpg] Just looks like a rock lined square depression. This is a 1/2 basement style. hearth was pile in the center
A site this old where a guy lived off the land didn't produce like the larger "INN" one. But, Rob & I got colonial flat buttons here & me a shoe buckle pin part. Howard was excited to dig out this nice 1700's shoe buckle inner workings....
[attachment 21039 BJ4-shoeHH.jpg] & this ain't even the shoe buckle inn!
to be continued........
I called it "The shoe buckle inn" because it produced 4 colonial buckles (3 complete!) the first try. Anyhow, here's what the foundation looks like again....
[attachment 21031 bJ-3-2005.jpg] a real nice center hearth colonial.
Rob & Howard joined me, & Rob had found a place to park right near this hole (that took a mile off our hike!). We saw that new houses are going in fast & this place was not gonna be here long due to "progress"
The landowner already gave us permission, & here's Howard inside the barn foundation with Rob working the outside.....[attachment 21033 BJ3barn2006.jpg]
We began digging a ton of iron, & figured this site was active till the Civil War or so. I dug lots of iron because I was still in "DIV Practice mode"
That means I was running the C$ on all metal most all of the afternoon. This is just our second time hunting here & we still know there's alot more. Howard picked one area & got going first with several nice relics. A large colonial coat button & a womans broach/pin thingy, spoons, etc...While Rob & I were busy rushing all over the place skipping around lookin' for a +31 Largie signal on our C$'s It looked for a min. like we might get skunked & I even talked about heading to another hole, as alls I had was a "GW fake out". That's a decorated colonial button that sure looked like a dang G. Washington Inaugural!
(instead of seein' a GW I brush off a flower!). But we kept at it, & Rob & I both got a coin back to back....(we did a "bottom feed" as they say) Rob's was a really nice AU looking 1863 Fat Indian head....While I got on the board with my first silver piece of the year....an 1856 Half dime & the "GW fakie" [attachment 21035 BJ3-3-2006.jpg]
The half dime was deep....7-8" at least & I doubt I would have got to it without the use of all metal.....
After a lunch break we decided to check out a mill area nearby. We located it last time as it was getting dark & could easily get to it by GPS. I suggested we take a different route on hope of finding another cellar hole. Right away we found a small cemetary not known about from early 1800's. Then we get to a hillside & we began to see rock stacks everywhere. This is a sure sign of colonial farming as farmers plowed up the rocks & then piled them up. Here's a photo I took of them....
[attachment 21036 BJ4cairns.jpg] 1 in front & several in background...
Seeing nice stone walls ahead we split up & decided to use our cell phones if we gut separated. They didn't get to far when I saw a hearth mound & ran up to another real early foundation & began screaming "HOLE!!!" They ran up & all gave hi-5's. It's exitng to run into an un-hunted cellar hole in the woods....especially one that looks like it could be 1600's...
[attachment 21038 BJ4-1600.jpg] Just looks like a rock lined square depression. This is a 1/2 basement style. hearth was pile in the center
A site this old where a guy lived off the land didn't produce like the larger "INN" one. But, Rob & I got colonial flat buttons here & me a shoe buckle pin part. Howard was excited to dig out this nice 1700's shoe buckle inner workings....
[attachment 21039 BJ4-shoeHH.jpg] & this ain't even the shoe buckle inn!
to be continued........