Re: Where to start?
September 17, 1998 at 18:24:18
In Reply to: Where to start?
posted by Barb in WI on September 16, 1998 at 10:31:27
re Old Houses
I have worked several over the years
and certain things follow through. All of this is
based on the dirt being undisturbed.
#1 see if you can find the privy/outhouse,
when you drop your drawers you lose stuff
#2 the most dropped coins will be where someone
got in/out of a car or buggy and went for their keys..this would be rich folks
mostly...other folks on horseback would have ridden into the barn or stable...rich folks handed the horse
over to a slave/helper when not in a buggy. Therefore
figure out where the driveway was back then.
#3 as stated before a radius around the front porch is super, as well as the sidewalk..when someone approaches the house walking they would reach into a pocket for keys....dropping whatever else is in the pocket
#4 kids drop more than adults...figure out where they played...many times around a front or back porch,
when you find marbles, you got the right spot
#5 search around chimneys for caches
#6 the person doing the wash might lose a ring with those wet hands, but it was often a poor helper
that had no rings
#7 big, big old trees
HH
-=john=-
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