joeyfresh
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- Dec 19, 2006
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I recently secured permission to detect at an old property dating back to the late 1600's. The large brick house, which was torn down in the late 1800's, was 200+ feet long which included a center portion of the house and two wing structures. This large house spanned a high ridge overlooking a river and also sloped down at either side of the wings towards two creeks. The plantation belonged to a very prominent Virginian leading up to and during the Revolution so I had high hopes to come away with some great finds including some old silver coins. I invited Bill D. to join me on Saturday with the hope that we could potentially find some colonial trash pits as well.
Well, the metal finds were basically non existent so Bill broke out the probe and sifter and we headed over to one of the slopes next to where the kitchen building was and after a couple of probes Bill was pretty certain we had hit a trash pit. I was a little hesitant of digging a large hole so we decided to just open up a small one and see what we would find. Bill dug while I sifted and it didn't take long to start pulling out wine bottle bases and necks, pipe stems, pottery and oyster shells. I was stoked since digging a colonial trash pit has been on my mind since Bill pulled out some awesome bottle seals from a pit at one of his sites last year.
The finds below are from a very tiny portion of this trash pit and thanks to a friendly groundhog who pulled wine bottle fragments from another trash pit across the field, we are certain there are numerous on the property. Hopefully we can get permission to open up more ground and hopefully find a whole onion bottle and other colonial goodies. Thanks for looking!
Well, the metal finds were basically non existent so Bill broke out the probe and sifter and we headed over to one of the slopes next to where the kitchen building was and after a couple of probes Bill was pretty certain we had hit a trash pit. I was a little hesitant of digging a large hole so we decided to just open up a small one and see what we would find. Bill dug while I sifted and it didn't take long to start pulling out wine bottle bases and necks, pipe stems, pottery and oyster shells. I was stoked since digging a colonial trash pit has been on my mind since Bill pulled out some awesome bottle seals from a pit at one of his sites last year.
The finds below are from a very tiny portion of this trash pit and thanks to a friendly groundhog who pulled wine bottle fragments from another trash pit across the field, we are certain there are numerous on the property. Hopefully we can get permission to open up more ground and hopefully find a whole onion bottle and other colonial goodies. Thanks for looking!
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