BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
I don't know if you all have had that experience of hunting for a housesite in the woods--a real tough one. I've done pretty well at this, and found just about every one that I've tried to locate. Some have been tough, though...
Well...the Iron Brigade dove into the woods yesterday to locate an old housesite. I'd pinpointed the spot to the left of the owner's driveway to his modern house. (Felt 99% certain that his new house wasn't build overtop of it). The owner himself had no idea that there was ever a house there--and he grew up in the area a long time ago.
Let me tell you, we tore those woods up for several long hours...finding no trace of an iron patch, cellar hole, or well. (We did find ticks and snakes though
) I started to doubt the research I'd done...so I finally gave them all the round-up signal and we had a pow-wow at the driveway. Nobody had walked across an iron patch. I was puzzled... Then as we were getting ready to hang our heads in shame, we noticed--of all things!--Old Brick mixed in with the driveway gravel. 
Getting on either side of the driveway in the grass and landscaping, we found more brick--and pottery. :P The housesite was exactly where the current driveway goes through. So at least we found it--although the dirt had been pushed all around to make the driveway. With darkness almost on us, we pounded the areas around the driveway with a vengeance (as if everyone on the team wanted to demand something awesome from this site that had drained so much of our hunting time).
The crew got several suspender clips (I was quite happy with an oddly-shaped oval one I got). We also found harmonica reeds, flat buttons, and other typical housesite culprits. Not really much to show--although I might be persuaded to show the suspender clip... Digger Girl got the only coin--a nice "V" nickel (and I hope she posts it!). So congrats to her on her oldest nickel. Oh, and of course we found some Big Iron too.
In my book, the best find was finding the site itself.
Regards,
Buckleboy
I don't know if you all have had that experience of hunting for a housesite in the woods--a real tough one. I've done pretty well at this, and found just about every one that I've tried to locate. Some have been tough, though...
Well...the Iron Brigade dove into the woods yesterday to locate an old housesite. I'd pinpointed the spot to the left of the owner's driveway to his modern house. (Felt 99% certain that his new house wasn't build overtop of it). The owner himself had no idea that there was ever a house there--and he grew up in the area a long time ago.
Let me tell you, we tore those woods up for several long hours...finding no trace of an iron patch, cellar hole, or well. (We did find ticks and snakes though
) I started to doubt the research I'd done...so I finally gave them all the round-up signal and we had a pow-wow at the driveway. Nobody had walked across an iron patch. I was puzzled... Then as we were getting ready to hang our heads in shame, we noticed--of all things!--Old Brick mixed in with the driveway gravel. Getting on either side of the driveway in the grass and landscaping, we found more brick--and pottery. :P The housesite was exactly where the current driveway goes through. So at least we found it--although the dirt had been pushed all around to make the driveway. With darkness almost on us, we pounded the areas around the driveway with a vengeance (as if everyone on the team wanted to demand something awesome from this site that had drained so much of our hunting time).The crew got several suspender clips (I was quite happy with an oddly-shaped oval one I got). We also found harmonica reeds, flat buttons, and other typical housesite culprits. Not really much to show--although I might be persuaded to show the suspender clip... Digger Girl got the only coin--a nice "V" nickel (and I hope she posts it!). So congrats to her on her oldest nickel. Oh, and of course we found some Big Iron too.
In my book, the best find was finding the site itself.
Regards,
Buckleboy
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