I managed a short trip to scout for the cellar holes a friend told me about. Well, I found a string of six structures and that was in only about thirty minutes of searching. One was most certainly a mill long ago (it had a huge stacked stone center column on the inside..most like support for the millstone I found later on nearby). A few seemed to be homes and one was definitely a barn. I decided to do a quick sweep of as many as I could before I ran out of time and here are my findings. There are clear signs that someone has detected there before: there are crudely refilled, large holes with large metal items strewn on the ground outside the hole. The attempts, even to my beginner's eyes, seemed crude. Working near where it seemed someone had already dug I found loads of small iron hits..old rusty nails galore. In the barn I found a horseshoe, a metal band that may have been a bucket or barrel strap and a funky tool. In a rush I decided to search what I thought would be the likely path from the house to the barn forty feet away and I found a button. I also found what appears to have been a garbage pit because I found scrap metal, clam shells, and some broken pottery.
I think there is much more to find here but I lack the experience to even know where to start.
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