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Today's rain delay, yesterday's pics
I got to spend yesterday afternoon at our deep woods foundation with DrDetector and Kiros32; we cleared stone and brush with a vengeance and got to do a little detecting as well. While I'm waiting out what I hope is only a rain delay this morning, I'll fill you in and post some pictures. Using an old atlas and other resources, we've been able to determine that this foundation was part of a 300 acre farm in the 19th and early 20th century. Thanks to Kiros' ingenuity, we know where the bodies are buried, literally, and we spent a small part of the afternoon visiting the gravesite of the farmer and his family. Kiros also has a copy of the old man's will coming! Anyway, we found a few objects of interest; I'll post my pictures now and the other guys can add on if they like. We're pretty sure the round object on the right is part of a pocket watch and I like to think the pulley might have been part of a clothesline! We spend a lot of our work time up there imagining how things might have been, where things might have been, etc. Kiros found a couple interesting items, and the Dr managed a thimble; we were disappointed with him that it wasn't silver, but it's still part of the farm's history. The daughters all appear to have died by the late '20's, unmarried; we speculate that they stayed on the farm until then, when it changed hands. Of the farmer's eight children, none of the sons are buried in the family plot, only the daughters. From the looks of things, the growth around the foundation can be eighty years old. Still, only one good coin of note from the site: my 65 Indian head of a few weeks ago. Kiros was (we'll say miffed) that his coin find was a memorial penny
; the site is a known hangout for kids way back. A couple years ago, I pulled a clad Washington from the middle of the barn; you can imagine my disappointment that day!
I got to spend yesterday afternoon at our deep woods foundation with DrDetector and Kiros32; we cleared stone and brush with a vengeance and got to do a little detecting as well. While I'm waiting out what I hope is only a rain delay this morning, I'll fill you in and post some pictures. Using an old atlas and other resources, we've been able to determine that this foundation was part of a 300 acre farm in the 19th and early 20th century. Thanks to Kiros' ingenuity, we know where the bodies are buried, literally, and we spent a small part of the afternoon visiting the gravesite of the farmer and his family. Kiros also has a copy of the old man's will coming! Anyway, we found a few objects of interest; I'll post my pictures now and the other guys can add on if they like. We're pretty sure the round object on the right is part of a pocket watch and I like to think the pulley might have been part of a clothesline! We spend a lot of our work time up there imagining how things might have been, where things might have been, etc. Kiros found a couple interesting items, and the Dr managed a thimble; we were disappointed with him that it wasn't silver, but it's still part of the farm's history. The daughters all appear to have died by the late '20's, unmarried; we speculate that they stayed on the farm until then, when it changed hands. Of the farmer's eight children, none of the sons are buried in the family plot, only the daughters. From the looks of things, the growth around the foundation can be eighty years old. Still, only one good coin of note from the site: my 65 Indian head of a few weeks ago. Kiros was (we'll say miffed) that his coin find was a memorial penny
; the site is a known hangout for kids way back. A couple years ago, I pulled a clad Washington from the middle of the barn; you can imagine my disappointment that day!Attachments
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