Nana40
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I only got to get out and play once this week. (Either busy, busy, busy OR rain, rain rain. 
) Lisa had come across a great looking site last weekend and she didn't have to ask twice if I wanted to go and hunt in the woods! It was an old log cabin that was tucked away behind a 50's something house. We had gone over the old maps just to see what we might in for the day before we got there. DANG! This looked like a good 'un! 
As we drove up the long dirt drive and past the first house, I could see that old cabin sitting surrounded by pines. A beautiful sight, even if it was old as the hills.
We jumped out of the truck and put on the orange. Spent the better part of two hours digging up...shotgun shells.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
OK...where are the spoons? Where are the harmonica reeds? No pieces of glass or pottery anywhere. 
Now around the perimeter there was mounds of dirt. We check there too. Nothing. Or nothing that we were looking for. The only thing I found back there worth mentioning was this neat knife. Only thing is, it's broken.
We decided to go and check out the 50's house. Same thing. Nothing. Nothing old anyhow. Change here and there and some shells from a pistol. And same as the cabin...a surrounded by mounds of dirt with old dead trees mixed in. I remembered seeing on one of the maps we had that there were houses located back on the edge of the road that we came in on, and Lisa and I had made the comment on the way in not to forget to check out that site as well. So, not finding what we were looking for, I took a little tour through the woods and ended up by the road. POTTERY! Yeah! Here we go. This is where we needed to be. I walked back and told the girls what I had found and we packed up and headed over to the site. Being that we had spent the better part of the day at the other two sites, we didn't have long to hunt here. But not much into hunting this site, I found an old reed and Lisa had dug up an old miners tag. That's more like it! We dug up a ton of scrap in that couple of hours we spent there, but I managed to find two Indian cents, both dated 1896 and a 1916 wheat.
On the way home, we discussed the possibility that maybe the owners had cut that path out of the woods and relocated that old cabin back there. I just know where we were finding the goodies...and where we were NOT finding the goodies!
I hope you all have a great week and a wonderful Christmas!
Nana
) Lisa had come across a great looking site last weekend and she didn't have to ask twice if I wanted to go and hunt in the woods! It was an old log cabin that was tucked away behind a 50's something house. We had gone over the old maps just to see what we might in for the day before we got there. DANG! This looked like a good 'un! As we drove up the long dirt drive and past the first house, I could see that old cabin sitting surrounded by pines. A beautiful sight, even if it was old as the hills.
We jumped out of the truck and put on the orange. Spent the better part of two hours digging up...shotgun shells.
OK...where are the spoons? Where are the harmonica reeds? No pieces of glass or pottery anywhere. Now around the perimeter there was mounds of dirt. We check there too. Nothing. Or nothing that we were looking for. The only thing I found back there worth mentioning was this neat knife. Only thing is, it's broken.
We decided to go and check out the 50's house. Same thing. Nothing. Nothing old anyhow. Change here and there and some shells from a pistol. And same as the cabin...a surrounded by mounds of dirt with old dead trees mixed in. I remembered seeing on one of the maps we had that there were houses located back on the edge of the road that we came in on, and Lisa and I had made the comment on the way in not to forget to check out that site as well. So, not finding what we were looking for, I took a little tour through the woods and ended up by the road. POTTERY! Yeah! Here we go. This is where we needed to be. I walked back and told the girls what I had found and we packed up and headed over to the site. Being that we had spent the better part of the day at the other two sites, we didn't have long to hunt here. But not much into hunting this site, I found an old reed and Lisa had dug up an old miners tag. That's more like it!
We dug up a ton of scrap in that couple of hours we spent there, but I managed to find two Indian cents, both dated 1896 and a 1916 wheat.
On the way home, we discussed the possibility that maybe the owners had cut that path out of the woods and relocated that old cabin back there. I just know where we were finding the goodies...and where we were NOT finding the goodies!
I hope you all have a great week and a wonderful Christmas!
Nana
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Ed! Merry Christmas! 
