Outhouse pits in tilled fields?

[Prairie Prowler]

I have a few old homestead sites I detect and want to find the outhouse pits & dig bottles etc..has anyone found any pits in tilled fields ?? Or does the farm equip. compact the soil too much to locate them by probing any advice appreciated....

 

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[Bass]

If you have a good idea as to where the house stood and where the privy should be, you can still locate it with a probe.

 

[Prairie Prowler]

Will try that... thanx..just wondering if anyone else has tried this in a plowed field..

 

[Bass]

Yes

 

[Hitndahed]

Yes

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Yes,,,
And the principal actions are the same,,, and so is the "feelings" you will get when the probe encounters glass in the "pit".
GOOD LUCK

 

[Jason in Enid]

Will try that... thanx..just wondering if anyone else has tried this in a plowed field..

It's something I am trying to try out. It's hard to find a time when my particular field is in between crops AND not mud or ice.

 

[bottles10]

in plowed field look for scattered trash on top where plow has turned it over. then look for the most trash and probe around that area

 

[Bass]

in plowed field look for scattered trash on top where plow has turned it over. then look for the most trash and probe around that area

And look for chunks of brick

 

[Prairie Prowler]

Thanx for the tips ....Im a newbie at finding these Out house pits ...probably should've started searching years ago for them!!..

 

[Bass]

Yep. If I could go back in time I would have one heck of a collection

 

[jgas]

GPR jgas

 

[sunrunner]

finding home sit's in a plowed filed is e-z , it's trying to find the out house which is hard . I once found a town dump in a plowed filed . but had to what until the corn was up until I got in there to dig it. once I filed in my hole I replaced the corn stocks .

 

[Goldenplug]

finding home sit's in a plowed filed is e-z , it's trying to find the out house which is hard . I once found a town dump in a plowed filed . but had to what until the corn was up until I got in there to dig it. once I filed in my hole I replaced the corn stocks .

I'm a little disturbed. Somebody is growing corn on a dump? SMH

 

[Jason in Enid]

I'm a little disturbed. Somebody is growing corn on a dump? SMH

Are you being serious or joking? You have no emoticons so I cant tell.

If you are serious, I think you are confusing a modern dump with something 100+ years old which has no biological material left.

 

[Hitndahed]

I'm a little disturbed. Somebody is growing corn on a dump? SMH

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Oh my yes,,, they do out where we l;ive.
One of the city dumps from Carlisle is located right up the road from me.
They capped with 2 feet of clay and soil and started farming it.
Now this is old time trash,,, not so much of the toxic junk that is in new landfills.
You can walk the edges and see lots of glass and pottery. Maybe this summer I will ask if I can dig a small pit just to check it out.
The landowner knows what is there so I don't think he would mind, Just make sure all is back when you are done.

 

[coloradocav1]

accidently found a trash while detecting at fort sedgewick colorado, in the tilled cornfield years ago. noticed the soil in one spot had lots of sand, the river is about a quarter mile away. got a large iron reading deep in the sandy soil. the metal signal was a cool stove door with a lion head on it. OMG The bottles, two American life log cabin bitters, 2 and1/2 threadless transcontinental insulators! that small pit netted $10,000!. Though I wish I would have kept just one. I hunt many other forts in tilled fields and its extremely hard to find a pit. Believe it or not I started goofing with a dowsing rod last fall, no privy yet but I dowsed numerous trash pits full of wagon parts from the Oregon trail, look for areas with lots of broken glass, china, square nails. other than that its just luck in a plowed field. Unless you can afford a gpr! good luck!