✅ SOLVED Rocks underneath a dump site?

[farmdump]

I have a dump site behind my house and so far have found some pretty good stuff. As i keep digging down, huge rocks start to appear right underneath were i'm digging. My question is is there anything underneath the rocks or were they placed there for a specific purpose? thanks

 

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[surf]

Hello farmdump,

Welcome to the Tnet, and tanks for telling us of these rocks. It's customary, around here, to use measurements, and/or photos illustrating scale. One man's huge rock, is another's...

Back in the day farmers wanted to move the rocks out of their fields. They would sometimes use the non productive rock dumps as dumps for their household refuse. Often later, more mechanized farmers might push this stuff to a lower lying level, so you never know. What's under the huge rocks?

 

[farmdump]

Thanks surf!

The rocks that i'm finding are very big and look very old. The property has more rock dumps than bottles, metal, etc. combined. I would say that the property has about three individual rock dumps. I have found pieces of brick and old cow bones underneath but no glass bottles or anything big. The dump with the big rocks i located on a bank alongside a stream. My best find so far is a 1880s stove door with a round ornament in the door in perfect shape.

Looking at the picture above, the dump shown has some tin cans like the one at the dump but no really old bottles yet. could the old bottles be underneath the huge rocks?

Currently there is snow on the huge rocks and the dump site itself but will see what I can do about pics once the snow melts.

 

[mcb66]

Years ago when someone moved to a new piece of land, the first thing they did was clear the rocks off productive land. Shortly thereafter household garbage starts getting generated. Makes sense they would put the trash over the cleared rocks. At least that's what you find around here.

 

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Sometimes rock piles by a stream can indicate early Native American presence.