Midnightrider08
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- Garrett Ace 250 & Bounty Hunter Quick Silver
Today I decided to switch modes and go for a bit of history. So wife and I headed to a farm where we had permission to go anytime, we found the owner and asked where he would suggest to start. He told us up in the sugar woods was the first foundation in town on first road in town by first settler in town in 1790 and that to best of his knowledge and records for his property nobody had lived in it since 1867 at the latest. He warned that it was a hike and that to follow the "Carved" out road at end of meadow and not the logging trail.
So up we went. I detected the entire way with not a hint of anything but was sorta a half hearted attempt as our main goal for the day was simply finding the foundation. After about 45 mins - Hour we located the foundation and the road either behind or in front of it . I beleive I approacehed it from the backside but I could be wrong and will know once I locate a fireplace. It had stones all along the outside about 20-30 feet then side walls were 15 feet-30. Then the logging road goes over part of it . then a stone wall , another old road and then another stone wall , there is a gap between the stone wall from the site to the old road which makes me think I approached it from the backside comming up the hill .
Anyways we began detecting the backside of foundation . I hit a load deep coin single and we dug and retrieved some square nails (Backside/ On a Hillside) .. wife kept digging that hole. I moved to the corner to my right and got another one and dug some more nails and kept getting singles , wife joined me and told me to move on as it was sprinkling . She found more nails and started finding pottery(small pieces) with color . I hit another good target on side wall and more nails more pottery and good size piece of really think green glass. I moved to the front and got more singles and found what I think to be the bottom of a old crock and other crock pieces. When all of a sudden wife says "Tooth" I can't even explain how I fealt at that moment ... I think I literally wanted to run away but for fear of feeling like a chicken in front of my wife I stayed. We determined it to be a predators tooth and put it in a bag got few more nails and headed home for the day.
When I got it home and examined it ... I noticed it still had what looked like a long root hanging from it and when I turned it upside up from what I thought it was I realized it looked like it could be really large back molars. I need to know A. why would they be right along the back wall ? B. Where can I go to find out what the teeth belong to ? and C. Would you go back ?
Here's my best attempt at getting pics on here :
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/berkshirerdside/
You can't take a farmer our of the parlor and stick him in front of Pc and expect him to know what he's doing. My Pc skills aren't the best folks.
So up we went. I detected the entire way with not a hint of anything but was sorta a half hearted attempt as our main goal for the day was simply finding the foundation. After about 45 mins - Hour we located the foundation and the road either behind or in front of it . I beleive I approacehed it from the backside but I could be wrong and will know once I locate a fireplace. It had stones all along the outside about 20-30 feet then side walls were 15 feet-30. Then the logging road goes over part of it . then a stone wall , another old road and then another stone wall , there is a gap between the stone wall from the site to the old road which makes me think I approached it from the backside comming up the hill .
Anyways we began detecting the backside of foundation . I hit a load deep coin single and we dug and retrieved some square nails (Backside/ On a Hillside) .. wife kept digging that hole. I moved to the corner to my right and got another one and dug some more nails and kept getting singles , wife joined me and told me to move on as it was sprinkling . She found more nails and started finding pottery(small pieces) with color . I hit another good target on side wall and more nails more pottery and good size piece of really think green glass. I moved to the front and got more singles and found what I think to be the bottom of a old crock and other crock pieces. When all of a sudden wife says "Tooth" I can't even explain how I fealt at that moment ... I think I literally wanted to run away but for fear of feeling like a chicken in front of my wife I stayed. We determined it to be a predators tooth and put it in a bag got few more nails and headed home for the day.
When I got it home and examined it ... I noticed it still had what looked like a long root hanging from it and when I turned it upside up from what I thought it was I realized it looked like it could be really large back molars. I need to know A. why would they be right along the back wall ? B. Where can I go to find out what the teeth belong to ? and C. Would you go back ?
Here's my best attempt at getting pics on here :
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/berkshirerdside/
You can't take a farmer our of the parlor and stick him in front of Pc and expect him to know what he's doing. My Pc skills aren't the best folks.
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