crazyjarhead
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1850's School House Site Hunt Produces Some IH's, Wheats And More
Hello TNET Family;
I have an old Atlas from 1873 that my late Grandmother gave to me and believe me this is a must have for any serious detectorist if you want to find the older sites. Believe it or not most of the roads are still used today. The only difference is that they are asphalt, not gravel as the map depicts them to be. Paving is something used in more modern times.
Saturday started off great as far as the weather is concerned and couldn't have been better. We just need some rain. But that did not stop Terry Everly and I from hitting the corn field. My recent recon had spotted some brick lying in the field......indicative of an old building. In this case it was to bee the old Howard School housefrom 1850. I knew the farmer who owned it and it was an easy yes.
Hunting a cornfield is kind of hard fight the knee high stubble and trying to pinpoint a target. Then you have to clear away the stalks and leaves to get to the dirt. Then you can attempt to pinpoint your target. The soil was dark and fairly easy to dig. The debris field has been scattered quite a ways from the building from years of farming. I found one IH 50 yards from the original site.
Terry and I hit this place for about 2 hours. Him with his trusty E-trac left me in the dust. He scored some good targets. look forward for his post (teverly of treasurenet or buckeye treasurehunters) We had a good time and some of the other places I was hoping to get into were put on hold. No one was home and yes, we had some "No's" too. One guy was rather mean when I asked him permission to hunt. Makes you wonder. The last picture is a place we also had permission to hunt. Despite it's age we didn't find too much here.
The 1833 house in my pictures is the farmer who owns the land where the school house stood. He said that it was tore down not too many years ago. After it was a school house it became a guest house/farm hand house up until 1980's. Terry and I also hunted his beautifully restored house. You can see his house on the map just down from the school house .
Two days finds:
10 wheats 1920's -1950's
2 silver dimes Merc and a Rossie
3 IH's
lots of clad
2 bullets. No idea on the age
2 buckles
Harmonic reed
other misc. Items from school site
Hello TNET Family;
I have an old Atlas from 1873 that my late Grandmother gave to me and believe me this is a must have for any serious detectorist if you want to find the older sites. Believe it or not most of the roads are still used today. The only difference is that they are asphalt, not gravel as the map depicts them to be. Paving is something used in more modern times.
Saturday started off great as far as the weather is concerned and couldn't have been better. We just need some rain. But that did not stop Terry Everly and I from hitting the corn field. My recent recon had spotted some brick lying in the field......indicative of an old building. In this case it was to bee the old Howard School housefrom 1850. I knew the farmer who owned it and it was an easy yes.
Hunting a cornfield is kind of hard fight the knee high stubble and trying to pinpoint a target. Then you have to clear away the stalks and leaves to get to the dirt. Then you can attempt to pinpoint your target. The soil was dark and fairly easy to dig. The debris field has been scattered quite a ways from the building from years of farming. I found one IH 50 yards from the original site.
Terry and I hit this place for about 2 hours. Him with his trusty E-trac left me in the dust. He scored some good targets. look forward for his post (teverly of treasurenet or buckeye treasurehunters) We had a good time and some of the other places I was hoping to get into were put on hold. No one was home and yes, we had some "No's" too. One guy was rather mean when I asked him permission to hunt. Makes you wonder. The last picture is a place we also had permission to hunt. Despite it's age we didn't find too much here.
The 1833 house in my pictures is the farmer who owns the land where the school house stood. He said that it was tore down not too many years ago. After it was a school house it became a guest house/farm hand house up until 1980's. Terry and I also hunted his beautifully restored house. You can see his house on the map just down from the school house .
Two days finds:
10 wheats 1920's -1950's
2 silver dimes Merc and a Rossie
3 IH's
lots of clad
2 bullets. No idea on the age
2 buckles
Harmonic reed
other misc. Items from school site
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Can't wait to see Terry's post too.
on you are a wealth of information and just reading that post alone I know i will be thanking you in the future way to go my brother ROB
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