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    Interesting cellar hole item from last week

    Working the overnight shifts this week, so won't be out for a hunt until Tue/Wed of next week. Sleep, eat and work...that's about it for me during this period of my shift rotations. Anyhow, here's an interesting item I found at a cellar hole last week...huge site with an interesting construction. Wish I had a pic of the site but more or less half of the old barn was built into the side of a hill with the west face a 50' long by 20' high wall of stone. Long hike, but large and very cool site. I'll be back this fall after all the vegetation dies off. Not sure if the horse shown here was anything more than a decoration in the home, but really heavy/solid and rang up as brass. Keeper nonetheless. Thanks for looking.

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    That is a pretty cool piece. Sounds like a nice site.
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    Very nice find! Bet some kid played Cowboys & Indians with it
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    it looked like a nice bronze casting , very doubtful it was a toy . its a nice piece though. hey i would love to see some pictures of the barn structure , some of the old stonework is amazing .

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    Really nice find. Congrats. Safe & HH

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    With the size of that horse I think Del is right a decorative bronze sculpture.
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    Very cool

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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    it looked like a nice bronze casting , very doubtful it was a toy . its a nice piece though. hey i would love to see some pictures of the barn structure , some of the old stonework is amazing .

    Dan
    Thanks Dan. I'll get a shot of it next time I'm up there and share it with the group. Amazing how much work must have went into constructing some of these old places and hacking out a living there. This site is 2600 feet in elevation. Snow must be 4 feet deep regularly in the winter there.

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    Cool looking find. Looking forward to seeing what you pull out of there in the fall.

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    Looks like the rare dachshund-horse Sounds like a nice site!
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