Where to find the garbage

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

Here's an interesting question. I have right here a picture from 1950 of a farmhouse built sometime around 1850. This farmhouse was built on the site of a fort built in the 1770s. Where should I go looking for a garbage dump? The fort is right where the L shaped house is. The upper right hand corner of the picture is at the base of a hill. Also, if you see the little dark spot in the field to the right of the house, that is the well.

 

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[Blackfoot58]

Here's an interesting question. I have right here a picture from 1950 of a farmhouse built sometime around 1850. This farmhouse was built on the site of a fort built in the 1770s. Where should I go looking for a garbage dump? The fort is right where the L shaped house is. The upper right hand corner of the picture is at the base of a hill. Also, if you see the little dark spot in the field to the right of the house, that is the well.

Here’s how I would start, based on limited knowledge. First, are there any ravines/gullies near by. Those are often filled in with dumps. Secondly, the smell of a dump is not pleasant. I would look down wind from the prevailing wind direction.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I would look downhill from the well. You wouldn't want your garbage dump above your water source the same as you wouldn't want your privy uphill of your well either.

 

[Blackfoot58]

I would look downhill from the well. You wouldn't want your garbage dump above your water source the same as you wouldn't want your privy uphill of your well either.

Excellent point. 😷💩

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

Thanks for the advice so far, I do have a good idea of where I might be able to look now. There's a bit of a gully a few hundred feet away from the house site. I also think there used to be a cemetery nearby. I'll check around there.

 

[Silver Saver]

At my grandparents old farm property they threw their garbage over the side of a ledge down into a gully type area. About 200-300 ft away from the house

 

[EKG]

Here's an interesting question. I have right here a picture from 1950 of a farmhouse built sometime around 1850. This farmhouse was built on the site of a fort built in the 1770s. Where should I go looking for a garbage dump? The fort is right where the L shaped house is. The upper right hand corner of the picture is at the base of a hill. Also, if you see the little dark spot in the field to the right of the house, that is the well.

That's where i would search marked yellow good luck and have fun

 

[Gare]

Here's an interesting question. I have right here a picture from 1950 of a farmhouse built sometime around 1850. This farmhouse was built on the site of a fort built in the 1770s. Where should I go looking for a garbage dump? The fort is right where the L shaped house is. The upper right hand corner of the picture is at the base of a hill. Also, if you see the little dark spot in the field to the right of the house, that is the well.

It would be HARD for me to tel;l you. It would be BETTER IF I SHOWED YOU When do you want me to COME OVER heheheehhe I was just kidding ya ,. Good LUCK and please keep us informed !!!

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

That's where i would search marked yellow good luck and have fun

Looks like you picked the two places I was thinking also. I discovered the wind blows generally north east here, so I think the stuff will be on the right hand side

 

[Gare]

Look for indentations in the ground where people might have had a pit

 

[villagenut]

Invest in a spring steel probe....that will find the pits

 

[ToddsPoint]

I threw my flintknapping debitage in a small ravine in my woods for a dozen yrs. It’s been 10yrs since I added any and now a half ton of flint has virtually disappeared under leaves that have now turned to soil. Ravines hide things very well.