The old Church in the woods Update: 4/14; pics of site added

Sylth · Apr 13, 2009

After much dithering, finally made it out to a church I'd found way back in the woods. Only rubble was left, and the woods it was sitting it used to be field, back when it stood.

Anyway, poked around for about 2 hours, getting many iron and foil signals (no coin signals tho; how odd...) End result was a generous pile of odds and ends, along with two buttons; now, I coin shoot, and have never dug up any button besides a snap-on from some jeans. I have no idea about the age/type, so I was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction concerning them. Other things include the remains of a metal bottle, a key-like object reminiscent of the skull-key from Goonies, a heavy, malleable bar that could be lead or silver (anyone know how to test?), an numerous shot-gun shells. Finally, I found 2 bullets; what looks like a small 3-ringer from the civil war (only w/o the 3 rings) and what appears to be a musket ball.

Happy hunting!

Mr. Magoo · Apr 13, 2009

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That first button with the flower pattern and looks like a "tombac" button. The second one from around the same time frame (1800's). Good hunt. There is more there I'm sure! WTG

John987 · Apr 13, 2009

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Nice finds!
HH

kdismuke1 · Apr 13, 2009

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NICE FINDS. :thumbsup:

John (Ma) · Apr 13, 2009

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Great looking finds.

bigrig40 · Apr 13, 2009

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nice lookin buttons and relics. bigrig

Mental Granny · Apr 13, 2009

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Great finds and keep lookin bet there is more to be found! Let us know! :icon_sunny:

HH!

dfxmatt · Apr 13, 2009

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buy a itty bitty coil and sneak between all the iron

beetle662 · Apr 14, 2009

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Very cool finds! Congrats! :thumbsup:

allen · Apr 14, 2009

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a place like that should have coins around it,
go back and take your time on it...good luck...

GL · Apr 14, 2009

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Hows the church site look?

Sylth · Apr 14, 2009

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Oops.. guess I forgot to include pictures of the site. Here's what I have:

This is the general area; looking from the graveyard, towards the wagon trail
The trail heads off to the right and curves around the graveyard toward the viewpoint in the pic, with the church site opposite the road.

One of two gravestones left, its rather small, and completely illegible. Wonder if thats where it was originally, and if not, who stood it up there

The second grave, this one is large, and relatively illegible. Only words I could make out were 'Aged 30 years'

The Wagon Trail the goes past the graveyard from two different angles. For orientation, in the first pic the Graveyard is off to the left, and the
standing gravestone is off to the right (opposite, for the 2nd pic). The church, from the first pic, is behind and to the left about 20 ft.

Here's the one video I took of the actual church site; hopefully I remembered how to post vid's. *edit: looks like I did! This vid shows me walking along the wagon trail until I
reach the church, and then walking through the actual site of the church.

And to finish off... a story. See, I found this church by researching a series of reports filed by a local historian around 1928.
In her report, she included a story. According to the people who lived in the area, the church was active till around 1800; sometime between 1800 and 1900, the owner
of the land the church stood on decided, who knows why, that he had found a better use for the gravestones. He had most of the stones gathered together, and ground up

to be used as mortor for a house he built in the nearby town. No idea if it's true or not, but for such an old church, there sure aren't that many gravestones... :icon_scratch:

Mental Granny · Apr 14, 2009

Oh if it is true how terrible to destroy grave markers! But that could be like you said why only 2 remain. Maybe those 2 were buried after the others were removed?
And by the way very nice video! :icon_sunny: