Jamb Stove Plate and Virgin Cabin Site in PA

[BzyBee]

Technically this isn't "today's find" I wanted to wait a few hunts before posting anything from this site. This post represents 4 hunts over the last two weeks. This was, as far as I can tell, a previously undetected cabin site with secondary structure, in southwestern PA. Two massive daffodil patches told me that I was in the right area, as I explored the terrain initially. The stove plate is, by far, my favorite find from the site. I included before and after restoration photos. Thanks for looking and enjoy yourselves out there! -Jim

1766 Jamb Stove Plate before and after.





Hunts #1-4 in display case



Hunt #1



Hunt #1 and 2 (everything above and including the buckle fragment is from the second hunt)



Hunt #3 (recovered stove plate this hunt)



Hunt #4

 

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[Calabash Digger]

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[Mackaydon]

BzyBee, If you want to know the exact location of the furnace, I offer you this:

IRONING OUT THE MARY ANN FURNACE, YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

JONES, Jeri L., Jones Geological Services, 2223 Stovertown Road, Spring Grove, PA 17362, [email protected] and BEHR, Rose-Anna, DCNR, Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey, 3240 Schoolhouse Road, Middletown, PA 17057In January of 2008, the authors attempted to find the remains of the Mary Ann Furnace within Codorus State Park, southeast of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania. Reportedly the first charcoal furnace west of the Susquehanna River, it was founded by George Ross and Mark Bird in 1762. The furnace and forge made cannons and shot for the Continental Army in addition to cast iron stoves. The furnace operated until about 1801. Armed with a 1770’s hand-drawn map showing the furnace, road, and creek, we set out to pinpoint the location of the furnace. A field examination revealed several steep hillsides high enough to have facilitated loading the furnace. Further examination revealed on one hilltop, bits of limonite, limestone, charcoal, and broken bricks. Near the base of the hill, slag fragments are abundant. A trace of the tailrace can be seen departing the site. This is thought to be the location of the furnace, though no foundation blocks can be seen at the surface. A magnetic survey using a cesium vapor magnetometer showed a significant compact magnetic anomaly at the base of the hill where we believe the furnace sat. This may be a mass of iron, known as a salamander, that accumulated in the bottom of the furnace. A linear anomaly was also located in the field to the north of the expected furnace site. In a stream cut, a pavement of oxidized iron with charcoal fragments aligns with the magnetic feature. We hypothesize this to be waste iron, failed firings that cannot be reprocessed, which had been dumped along a road as fill. This linear magnetic anomaly is buried under two feet of fine silt and clay. Future archaeological excavations may confirm the location of the furnace and true identity of the linear anomaly.

Don......
Source: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010NE/finalprogram/abstract_168992.htm

 

[scruggs]

A very "SPECIAL" place your hunting with many nice finds! May your luck continue!!

 

[Mach1Pilot]

You have been doing great at that site - hope there are some other great finds for you before you are done there. You haven't taken Steve with you on that one, have you? I'm sure he would volunteer to go along and make sure you don't miss anything. LOL

And the history of that plate is fascinating. Don - that's awesome that you were able to share that with him!

 

[Steve in PA]

You have been doing great at that site - hope there are some other great finds for you before you are done there. You haven't taken Steve with you on that one, have you? I'm sure he would volunteer to go along and make sure you don't miss anything. LOL

And the history of that plate is fascinating. Don - that's awesome that you were able to share that with him!

Haha Keith, he said "get in line"

 

[johnnyblaze]

Now thats a pile of nectar right there!

~Blaze

 

[Chizzy]

Great site.......!!!!
Be sure to take alternate routes through the wooded areas to get there........don't want to wear too good a path to that cabin.............

 

[BzyBee]

I lugged another broken piece of the 1766 5 plate stove out of the woods the other day.
You can see bits of pottery/glass stuck to the plate.
Highlighting the area on this image that roughly represents this piece.
I will post a pic after restoration, but able to make out quite a few of the letters pretty clearly.
I'm going to need to do a bit of electrolysis this time.