Stone wall hunting

[TooManyHobbies]

How many of you hunt around old New England stone walls, and what have you found? There are tons of walls out in the woods, I'm sure many treasures were dropped while they were being built.

 

[stefen]

A while back someone on TN was hunting some walls, I believe in the New England area, and found coins and other items...

Remember, these same walls were used as abutments for numerous battles...might find almost anything from pistols to powder horns to bullets to coins...and the like.

Gotta hunt both sides...

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Thanks Stefen, I also did a search and found some good info.

 

[stefen]

Just for grins, might want to research battle fields then use Google Earth (or other sources) to look for walls. Could be more beneficial than random wall searchs...

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Thanks again. I wasn't thinking battles, but more about a farmer dropping a coin or two.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Stone walls and privvies are good places to find slave tags

I live in CT, don't know how many slaves were in this area, but probably not too many.

But, there were a few. I found this -
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1980/6/80.06.09.x.html#b

 

[stefen]

No, but every farmer was privy to a dumper