broken history

[jrwill56]

can anyone tell me why everythinge on the site i have been searching is broken in small pieces.all ceramics,all metal items,pottery,most bricks.?

 

[sasnz]

Hi JrWill, its really easy actually, all these broken bits that you have been seeing all belonged to something bigger, but they have gone past the point of Fragile. :P

 

[deepskyal]

Well Jrwill, pottery breaks easily, from people walking on it, to being burried for a while.
Metal is a little tougher but what kind of site are you hunting?

Maybe it was discarded because it was damaged, maybe someone ran a mower over it or worse, a bulldozer.

I've seen people drive places they have no place being in a vehicle....more damage.

I dug up a '65 Kennedy half with a real nice bend in it....who knows how...probably a mower I'm guessing.

Bored kids with nothing better to do can be pretty destructive too...look at the vandalism at cemetaries and playgrounds.

Hard to say why things get mashed...but heck...your finding stuff...keep at it...something whole is bound to be there somewhere.

Al

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

are there cows in the area? they are destructive to some sites...

 

[mick56]

The site may have been hunted before you. Nothing good is left.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

depends on where you're hunting (the type site).

Normally, when I find stuff like that, I consider it "woulda-coulda's" that I'm in the right strata of human influence/losses. You know, like indicators that tell me that "an old coin can be next". But if I start finding REAMS of that stuff and NOTHING good, it tells me I'm in a scattered out trash pit. Ie.: purposefully dumped stuff (like an outhouse pit that got brought up and scattered around, or a trash-burn zone in a back-yard, etc...), as opposed to fumble fingers zone stuff. In those cases, I leave for greener grounds.

 

[Lowbatts]

As Tom indicates, is it burnt or just broken? Years of plow work can do the same. Sounds like a spot with some potential coinage. Or is that coinage potential?

 

[N.J.THer]

Past owner of the property may have had an anger management issue....

 

[dimeaday]

sounds like fill, D-9 not respectful of artifacts

 

[jrwill56]

As Tom indicates, is it burnt or just broken? Years of plow work can do the same. Sounds like a spot with some potential coinage. Or is that coinage potential?

found a 1786 Conn. COPPER AT THIS SITE,AND SEVERAL BRASS BUTTIONS.