UPDATE/Four Crackheads & A (Colonial) Funeral
(UPDATE: I talked to the curator of the site and she was excited to hear about it. We are meeting at 10am Friday morning so I can show it to her. I will keep you updated.)
Holy cow! What an interesting eve of detecting that was. I got off work and headed for the Colonial site. I only had an hour or so of light. The director of the site had advised me watch out in the woods as there are homeless who hang out there, so I always keep an eye out and when I detected back there during daylight in the past I found lots of 1" square plastic bags from crack. I usually have Earthworks as the wingman and we keep an eye out for each other in case some dude wants to come out of the woods and go postal. Today I was solo and when I got there I looked into the woods and saw four crackheads sitting on the big log where I had seen all the baggies. I put a little extra tight grip on the digger tool and said under my breath, "Ok, crackheads, that's your area and this is mine, you don't bug me and I won't mess with you."
I went around the other side of the house and into the woods and got a good signal and started to dig. I get down a little bit and start to see this white power coming up with the dirt, which as you know is usually some oxidized metal blending in with the soil...but then I pulled up a big bone, and another, and one I had split in two...I could see these were very old bones, broke easily like balsa wood. I'm no Dr. but they certainly looked like they could be human, and when I pulled some more dirt away I could see and feel what looked like many more bones in a row, that appeared they could be vertabrae. Then I started carefully digging around the edge and I hit a flat stone "sidewall" to the hole, not a rock, but the stone sidewall of an enclosure. At that point I put the bones back in the hole and covered it back up, said a little outloud apology that I didn't mean to disturb the grave, "hope you know I'm a cool guy and no hard feelings" (seriously!). I started looking around the area gand found two very large flat gravestones on the ground covered by ivy. I have a feeling, since the bones I found were not very deep, that they were placed in the "stone box configuration" then a flat gravestone was set ontop of the ground to cover it, so it served as a gravestone and the top/cover of the grave. Is anyone familiar with this type of arrangment back in the old times? Now it was getting pretty dark and I figured the crackheads might try to take me by surprise if they were so inclined, so I got the heck out of there (after
digging one more signal that wasn't anything of note). I got home, called the director of the place and asked if she knew anything about graves. She said "GRAVES?!?!" -- so she is going to have someone else call me. Will keep you updated. At least I feel I've added to the history of the site and now they can properly preserve this area. There's always a chance this will stop any more detecting, but if that's the case I can live with that. It's more likely they'd have us stay away from that area. Bergie
(UPDATE: I talked to the curator of the site and she was excited to hear about it. We are meeting at 10am Friday morning so I can show it to her. I will keep you updated.)
Holy cow! What an interesting eve of detecting that was. I got off work and headed for the Colonial site. I only had an hour or so of light. The director of the site had advised me watch out in the woods as there are homeless who hang out there, so I always keep an eye out and when I detected back there during daylight in the past I found lots of 1" square plastic bags from crack. I usually have Earthworks as the wingman and we keep an eye out for each other in case some dude wants to come out of the woods and go postal. Today I was solo and when I got there I looked into the woods and saw four crackheads sitting on the big log where I had seen all the baggies. I put a little extra tight grip on the digger tool and said under my breath, "Ok, crackheads, that's your area and this is mine, you don't bug me and I won't mess with you."
I went around the other side of the house and into the woods and got a good signal and started to dig. I get down a little bit and start to see this white power coming up with the dirt, which as you know is usually some oxidized metal blending in with the soil...but then I pulled up a big bone, and another, and one I had split in two...I could see these were very old bones, broke easily like balsa wood. I'm no Dr. but they certainly looked like they could be human, and when I pulled some more dirt away I could see and feel what looked like many more bones in a row, that appeared they could be vertabrae. Then I started carefully digging around the edge and I hit a flat stone "sidewall" to the hole, not a rock, but the stone sidewall of an enclosure. At that point I put the bones back in the hole and covered it back up, said a little outloud apology that I didn't mean to disturb the grave, "hope you know I'm a cool guy and no hard feelings" (seriously!). I started looking around the area gand found two very large flat gravestones on the ground covered by ivy. I have a feeling, since the bones I found were not very deep, that they were placed in the "stone box configuration" then a flat gravestone was set ontop of the ground to cover it, so it served as a gravestone and the top/cover of the grave. Is anyone familiar with this type of arrangment back in the old times? Now it was getting pretty dark and I figured the crackheads might try to take me by surprise if they were so inclined, so I got the heck out of there (after
digging one more signal that wasn't anything of note). I got home, called the director of the place and asked if she knew anything about graves. She said "GRAVES?!?!" -- so she is going to have someone else call me. Will keep you updated. At least I feel I've added to the history of the site and now they can properly preserve this area. There's always a chance this will stop any more detecting, but if that's the case I can live with that. It's more likely they'd have us stay away from that area. Bergie
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Glad you made it out with no problems. 
please keep us posted to what it turns out to be.
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