Nipple Button, and Mostly Finds scenery pics.

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Yesterday I found the couple of buttons, including the nipple,,
Today was a lot of different, and a lot of fun, Found some homes, walls, and some wells, but strangly not very many finds

 

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[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Johnny B. ?? I took a couple of these just for you.
At Least one of these wells was quite deep.

Rick

 

[Evolution]

Nice finds Rick. I always get excited when I see the foundations and the wells. Keep at it. Probably a few things there. The nipple button is older than anything I've been finding lately.

 

[Ia.FurTrade]

Nice old finds!

 

[Hunthicks]

I find the cellar holes in the woods around here see to be strangely quiet too!

 

[Ahab8]

Strangely the foundations have never been super productive for me. I did hit one that was virgin for sure and pulled 4 LCs and tons of buckles and a few buttons. But it wasn't as old as what I like to hunt (not complaining). The absolute best sites I've found have been by chance on the the edge of a historic river or an island with some nice history. No foundations or any sign of life. Just an iron patch. Not sure if they were all hammered in the 70s and 80s or what.
But anyway great pics bud and a nice hunt

 

[Iron Patch]

A couple of reasons off the top of my head....

Given it's a cellar hole in the woods obviously it ended up not being a very prosperous area so there's a good chance the people that lived there didn't stick around as long as say on a river that turned into a community. Plus, many places we hunt have been cleared/plowed/farmed at one time or another, even if it was 50 years ago... so the plow ripped through the dumps and spread everything, and that might not be the case for cellar holes in the woods.

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Johnny B. ?? I took a couple of these just for you.
At Least one of these wells was quite deep.

Rick

Good to see some cellars in another country

The further out in the woods they are the more you will find..

Didn't you find a killer coin or relic last year in the woods?

~Blaze

 

[ironhorse]

Great to see you hitting new areas and finding new places to detect
Strange thing about the lack of finds; a perfect storm of sorts, perhaps they didn't have as much to lose, a short lifetime of the site, and because its an obvious homesite it could have been previously detected in the past

Your next one will be better!

 

[pepperj]

Nice to see a nipple button dug on this side of the pond, could date to the 17c era.
Still the cellar holes are a hit and miss for me it seems most have been used for dumps for the past 100 yrs and there's always an easier patch of ground to detect somewhere instead of getting a big sweat on digging the trash out of the hole. So much easier working a tilled field and digging up a target left over from the plough.

 

[Greylock]

The nipple button is an old one. I have dozens of sites that look like they were very active but there was very little in the ground. I know they were never hunted because they are deep in the woods. Can't figure it out. Maybe an out building and the cellar hole is near by