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A buckle kind of weekend and some 1800s relix.
I depleted my energy both days this weekend...but, the last time I was out was a short hunt on Memorial weekend so I was in MD withdrawals. Later saturday I went out to an area where I have a bunch of cellar holes to hit. Throughout my different hunts there this year it seems certain holes are hit more than others. In general the ones deeper in the woods are less touched, but there is an exception.
A few weeks back I did hit an area I have to research a bit further. I'm including in this thread. There were some really small foundations like 3 ft wide over near a corner of a lot. One map shows the house in one spot, a different map shows it in another spot. And a different area there is supposed to be another hole. I only found two lot marker stones. Near the small foundations I pulled up a soap tin. Nothing exceptional but definitley a rarity. It still opens up.
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Saturday I just used my keen direction skills and cut through the woods to the one hole I hit that day. One end of the old road now goes through a person's yard which is why I had to come from another road and cut over. I could have walked 5 miles if I bothered to follow the road in almost a loop. There were a bit of targets there and it was quite an odd site to me. It wasn't quite at the bottom of a hill but it was almost at the bottom. Usually homes were built on the higher ground. Also it seemed like there was a trench on one side of the road down the hill, which cut over the road, then went to be almost like a small reservior. That is my guess what it was, but it looks like the deeper trench side was wedge shaped and 120 ft long with hills on both sides. There were no rocks at the large end for it to be a dam, however. Around the back side of this strange formation there was a huge 40 ft barn built into the side of the hill. Just down below there was another smaller barn. They were hidden spots even tho I saw a milk crate was there. I pulled up the 5th clock gear guide plate from the general area with all these holes. I have no idea why this one area has so many. They sound just like a coin but the size makes them read more shallow than they really are. I pulled a couple buckles by the cellar. The small one with the pointy tabs was right by the foundation mixed with some iron nails. The other was where I presume they kept the wagon, behind the house. Kind of like a modern day driveway. I like these spots because the yard layouts are easier to picture/understand. The way back was grueling however, it was uphill all the way. First the old road was a hill, then where it came to a man made trail, that stretch was up a stone hill. Twice I thought I was gonna have an asthma attack. The brass cap with the scalloped edge is unidentified.
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Sunday I went back up but a different set of holes, completely bypassing the first three I walked by. There was a house next to a cooper shop. I don't think cooper shops had a foundation but some of the boards remained at the site now. Part of the cellar foundation looked washed away. The first thing I pulled was a lantern piece. Then a buckle. Lantern parts are only like a 44 VDI for me, lower than a zincoln. I did scour the spot a little longer but decided to walk further up the old road. I couldn't find the next hole to the right. A ways up the road forked. I didn't try to find the hole there. A further up I saw this path leading away from the road and thought nothing of it. Continued on to the farthest site thinking it was less touched. Completely wrong. I put it into all metal and could only hear a handful of iron away from the hole. Well, there were a few beer cans I saw on the side of the road which should have given a hint. So, I back tracked to the area where the path was. I came to corner of a rock wall. I tried both sides to see if there was some iron. That lead me to a hole right by the path. It was a pretty big hole with a center chimney set a ways back from the road. I pulled up a chainsaw blade right next to the hole. I worked away from the hole toward these other depressions. One looked like a double hole which I assume wasn't a barn. Part of it was a foundation with an entry way. Then there was another area with some depressions. Multiple structures existed there. There had been someone detecting there within the past 13 months but apparently they missed a nice piece. It looks like a large two piece button. The back appears to still have a shank folded over. Back up at the hole I pulled out some sort of tube. Possibly a lipstick tube. It's brass and has a parttern to it and it's flattened now.
And for those pics.
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