treasurehunter313
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Didn't find the house, but found the tool shed
I had a much needed productive day in the woods. I went out yesterday trying to locate two old houses I found in an aerial photo from the 1930s near my house in the middle of the woods. I could not find the houses or any sign of them last night so I looked at the photo again today and decided I went into the woods too far down the road I was on. So I went back today and went into the woods I walked up a large hill and followed quad paths for about 30 mins. With darkness closing in and the realization that I don't really know where I am at I figured I would not find any of the structures for the second day in a row. A few minutes later I spot a small rock foundation maybe 8ft by 15ft or 20ft. I'm so relieved at this point because I have been hiking a lot lately with only bug bites and jagger bush cuts to show for it. So I put my coil to the ground in the foundation. Within 20 minutes I pulled up 8 targets or so. The two I was the most happy about were the axe head and the hook. The spoon was cool, but wasn't silver and I just brought the mason jar lids home to get them out of the woods. My dad says the other round object is a hub or something to an old Ford truck. Sorry I only have one picture of the finds I got home at dark and just put them in a bucket to clean up. I was very happy with the finds especially because there was a lot of sign that people had been there recently even though it is a mile or so from the closest house. I decide to start making my descent down the hill to find my car when I veer off the path to see if I could find the house. I didn't but when I go back to get on the path I take the wrong one and end up finding another foundation! It was bigger, but I still don't think it was the house. I did not detect it at all as it was almost dark. The picture of the foundation is the second one I found. I will post more pictures of the site when I go this weekend (t storms all week)
Thanks for looking!!
Sorry if the picture of the foundation is sideways.
I had a much needed productive day in the woods. I went out yesterday trying to locate two old houses I found in an aerial photo from the 1930s near my house in the middle of the woods. I could not find the houses or any sign of them last night so I looked at the photo again today and decided I went into the woods too far down the road I was on. So I went back today and went into the woods I walked up a large hill and followed quad paths for about 30 mins. With darkness closing in and the realization that I don't really know where I am at I figured I would not find any of the structures for the second day in a row. A few minutes later I spot a small rock foundation maybe 8ft by 15ft or 20ft. I'm so relieved at this point because I have been hiking a lot lately with only bug bites and jagger bush cuts to show for it. So I put my coil to the ground in the foundation. Within 20 minutes I pulled up 8 targets or so. The two I was the most happy about were the axe head and the hook. The spoon was cool, but wasn't silver and I just brought the mason jar lids home to get them out of the woods. My dad says the other round object is a hub or something to an old Ford truck. Sorry I only have one picture of the finds I got home at dark and just put them in a bucket to clean up. I was very happy with the finds especially because there was a lot of sign that people had been there recently even though it is a mile or so from the closest house. I decide to start making my descent down the hill to find my car when I veer off the path to see if I could find the house. I didn't but when I go back to get on the path I take the wrong one and end up finding another foundation! It was bigger, but I still don't think it was the house. I did not detect it at all as it was almost dark. The picture of the foundation is the second one I found. I will post more pictures of the site when I go this weekend (t storms all week)
Thanks for looking!!
Sorry if the picture of the foundation is sideways.
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Let us know what you dig at that second foundation!
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Andi
