Day 2: Cellar Hole Abandoned C. 1790. Abused Colonial Coins (Silver!) and More!

[coinman123]

I went back to a cellar hole along a colonial road that I found using lidar today. I called a buddy, and he was able to get out of work at 5pm, claiming he had a family problem . We then went to the location of a cellar hole, abandoned around 1790-1800. I was there yesterday for two hours, with my parents, and we found five colonial buttons and some colonial furniture pieces. Right away there today I found a colonial flat button. My buddy found one too. I then went into the thick overgrowth, full of poison ivy and ticks, and got a nice 79 on my T2. I pulled out, at 6 inches, the most beat up piece of colonial silver I have ever seen. It is around the size of a nickel, I am guessing that it is a one reale, but it is paper thin. Perhaps it is a 1600's piece of silver, that was dropped in the late 1700's. It is covered in deep gouges, and very worn, getting an ID is impossible, it could be a pine tree for all I know. I then got a deep big iron signal, dug around a foot, and found a colonial iron hoe head. Twenty feet away I got an 80 on my metal detector, six inches deep was another beat up coin, a toasted farthing sized coin. It is bent and toasted. Before I left I dug up another colonial button. I like the fact the there is almost no trash here. I found one rimfire bullet casing and said, "What! Really!", loudly, after finding a piece of late 19th century trash . More finds there in an hour and a half, than in all of 2017, until I found this site. When the weekend comes I will try to stay for a few hours. The fall will be good here, when all the overgrowth is dead.

 

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[4x4x4]

....These are true honey holes ! Please continue the fine pics too !

 

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[4x4x4]

....Thank for the heads up ! I started with Fugro in 1972 (Fugro BV Holland) here in the Los Angeles area . A very progressive co.

 

[Davers]

Great finds.
Def, a new "Honey Hole" 'to save yr year.
GL in future hunts .

 

[coinman123]

I spent fifteen minutes of my free time this morning in paint, using my great drawing skills, to make a diagram of the layout of the old home site. I looked at all the cellar holes and foundations that I saw in the woods, right near each other, and kept track of their size and location. I even saw two tiny foundations right next to the road, on each side, that look like little horse shelters. I am sure that one, more narrow, cellar which only has three walls and is built into a bank, right next to the main one, is a small root cellar. There is also a huge foundation, around the size of my barn's foundation which is from the same time period. I am almost sure that this is from the house's barn. Where do you recommend I should stick around next time I go there?

 

[creade]

If you view it like that, I believe that the whole thing was connected,like a long house. If you've ever been through Northwood,houses like that. Or the old farmhouses in other parts. There were usually 4 parts to these. That would mean that the front door would have been facing the road where wyou think the house stood. Where the root cellar was was a second connected house, probably a door in between the cellar and the road then the barn would face inward so the whole thing looked like a L. The trash was generally thrown in back off the main section so that would be good to look for for buttons and other relics. I got my civil war infantry button out of trash dump so good stuff can be there. Good luck out there. I don't know where you are in NH but maybe we could get out sometime for a hunt

 

[FreeBirdTim]

That's a piece of bark from the rock I took a photo of it on lol. I realized after I took the photo, and brushed it off

So much for that theory! LOL!

 

[coinman123]

If you view it like that, I believe that the whole thing was connected,like a long house. If you've ever been through Northwood,houses like that. Or the old farmhouses in other parts. There were usually 4 parts to these. That would mean that the front door would have been facing the road where wyou think the house stood. Where the root cellar was was a second connected house, probably a door in between the cellar and the road then the barn would face inward so the whole thing looked like a L. The trash was generally thrown in back off the main section so that would be good to look for for buttons and other relics. I got my civil war infantry button out of trash dump so good stuff can be there. Good luck out there. I don't know where you are in NH but maybe we could get out sometime for a hunt

Northwood is quite a drive, but I have certainly been there, it is a beautiful town with a lot of history, a lot of beautiful historic buildings. I saw many like the one you described.

It seems like they tried to make these old houses eventually connect to the barn. My barn was completely redone in the 1850's, but kept all of the original mid 1700's posts and beams, I don't think it was moved though. My house is from the mid 1740's, and is one of those long houses with tons of additions. Perhaps my site once resembled my house.

 

[creade]

That's what I was thinking . The other thing that happened with those type of houses were a fire would burn down all buildings since they were connected.

 

[Javadroid]

Colonial silver would take my breath away... I'm looking forward to seeing more of what you pull out of this site! Keep us posted!

 

[creade]

So the places for coins I think would be in front of the main house to the road ,around the corner on the side and in front of the barn in the L area.You could find some out back but I don't think they'd be prevalent there. The privy was usually in the L section of the house so there might be some cool bottles there if you have a probe to check.

 

[coinman123]

So the places for coins I think would be in front of the main house to the road ,around the corner on the side and in front of the barn in the L area.You could find some out back but I don't think they'd be prevalent there. The privy was usually in the L section of the house so there might be some cool bottles there if you have a probe to check.

I found the coins yesterday right on the front corner of the barn. It is pretty over grown out front, but I will brave through the vines and poison ivy next time. Thanks!