wow missed this thread when started, catching up
anyway....
i found a few yrs ago a small item, now that im seeing your
model cast stove lid, what might be the lifter
ill be cleaning an area in the basement soon, thinking it may be
in that area, cool, i hardly find anything,anymore that i cant ID
the little iron thing, and brass thing about size of a nickle, hoping
they are together and i can find again
I was over in eastern Oregon, hunting antelope, was walking in Sagehen Canyon, and at the site of a spring, I saw this wall of pictographs. Antelope hunt ended while I looked around.
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Also found this location, where some early resident of the area, had worked on making obsidian points or knives.
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This was my first ever axe. Need to say it had a lot of people stumped, even the local museum had not seen anything quite like it. I was excited like heck.
It took several weeks before I got a good ID, this is either a "root axe" for clearing up new farmland. OR it was a axe used for timbering.
What is interesting is we could date it to the early 1800's. During the dig in historic papers, this was found:
At about 1815 a part of the wetlands where this was found was turned into "common land" - as far as the villagers were allowed to use it.
So, either they were clearing the new area, or the were building a small hay barn! It seems cool and rare to seemingly be able to tie it to such a specific event.
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Here is a beauty shot.
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