Bill D. (VA)
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Yesterday's finds
As you've probably already seen from Dan's post, we got into a new site yesterday that held a lot of promise, at least on paper. And it did not disappoint as we found the early house site right off the bat. There were signals everywhere along with loads of early brick, pottery, glass, pipe stems, etc, but due to the frozen turf we were forced to limit our digging to cherry picking the high tones. But even that was difficult, and I eventually opted to only go after shallow, solid signals in the top 2" that was not frozen. However, there were many finds in that layer since last fall's peanut harvest turned the soil over quite nicely. That included a bunch of pipe stems that were eyeballed, and my analysis of their bore diameters indicated a mean date of occupancy of about 1720. We must have walked over literally hundreds of good targets before deciding to spend the rest of the day scouting the rest of the huge field. At least one other area looked interesting and will definitely deserve a second look. I wasn't able to walk over any nice coins or buckles, but I don't think that'll be a problem at our next outing when everything has thawed out. But that might be a while as 4-6" of snow are in tomorrow's forecast followed by temps near 10F. That's OK - those relics will still be waiting for us whenever we return. I also want to give my partner Dan a high-5 for the outstanding research and door knocking he did to put us onto this potentially great site. Good job!!
As you've probably already seen from Dan's post, we got into a new site yesterday that held a lot of promise, at least on paper. And it did not disappoint as we found the early house site right off the bat. There were signals everywhere along with loads of early brick, pottery, glass, pipe stems, etc, but due to the frozen turf we were forced to limit our digging to cherry picking the high tones. But even that was difficult, and I eventually opted to only go after shallow, solid signals in the top 2" that was not frozen. However, there were many finds in that layer since last fall's peanut harvest turned the soil over quite nicely. That included a bunch of pipe stems that were eyeballed, and my analysis of their bore diameters indicated a mean date of occupancy of about 1720. We must have walked over literally hundreds of good targets before deciding to spend the rest of the day scouting the rest of the huge field. At least one other area looked interesting and will definitely deserve a second look. I wasn't able to walk over any nice coins or buckles, but I don't think that'll be a problem at our next outing when everything has thawed out. But that might be a while as 4-6" of snow are in tomorrow's forecast followed by temps near 10F. That's OK - those relics will still be waiting for us whenever we return. I also want to give my partner Dan a high-5 for the outstanding research and door knocking he did to put us onto this potentially great site. Good job!!
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