My Latest Cellar Hole Exploration

[Steve in PA]

I have hunted (5) promising cellar holes this spring. All of them dated to the mid 19th century at least, and were new to me. This latest one was discovered by my brother while hunting for morel mushrooms. This past Saturday we walked in there to check it out. There is no road or evidence of a road to this place. It is in the middle of the woods. There is only a spring and a depression in the ground with some uncut foundation stones forming the corners and some crude hand made bricks strewn about.
This one, as did the other four, looked promising, but as they say....promises, promises

I went in there with both of my brothers and armed them each with a detector. The three of us hit it for three hours, and even though the few finds we made pointed to occupation during the first quarter of the 19th century, and possibly as early as the 1790s, we made no significant finds as far as coins, buttons, and relics. Pewter spoon pieces were fairly prevalent, but we only got three buttons and no coins. Probably the nicest find was the keyhole escutcheon. I intend to go back after the snow melts next winter as some areas were fairly grown up.

Later in the day I spent a couple hours at another site and scored a musketball, a button , and a worn King George III.

 

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Quindy, you are right. That feather blue dish shard is a good sign. But it came from the second site I hit that day - a spot that has already given me 140 buttons, 14 Spanish silvers, a draped bust dime, a capped bust half dime, and about 40 coppers. It was finally plowed this year, but only a few inched deep. I don't even know if "plowing" is the correct term for what they did (LOL)

Oh, and I have already hit the other four sites. One gave up some flat buttons and a boot pistol barrel. The other three were duds.

Duds was the order of the day for the Trio in the first half of 2015 except for a couple of old home sites Steve. If you can get a good site in 10-15 potential sites these days, you are luck. HH, Q.

 

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