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So I take it there's an old homesite nearby- since it's a cellar hole, right? How did you originally find this great site? I'm going to keep my eye out for them now... so much to learn!!!
Kinda off the subject of cellar hole hunting, but I'm looking forward to detecting some plowed fields, where there were homesites (broken china) I noticed when arrowhead hunting. I kept my eye out for marbles, pipes and such in those areas- but never thought about taking a metal detector out there! C'mon sunshine... and plowing and tilling... lol
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hey Tanacat , ya in Connecticut there are thousands of old abandon homesites (nothing left but their foundations or as we call them cellar holes) out in the woods some are on old maps some arn't . the past few we just stumble onto them looking for other ones . fields can be very productive for cool finds , good signs to look for are as you said and a clump of trees in the middle of a field too. we hit fields as well but they are overgrown with mature trees now ( haven't been plowed in more than a hundered years or more ).
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Oh okay, I don't mean to sound dumb :-\ yeah cellar holes are usually UNDER the homes... it seems I remember my great grandma's 'cellar' being a little walks away built in the side of a hill. (I would gather eggs from the chicken coop near there) And ma and pa's cellar in 'Little House on the Prairie' too lol
Oldest silver-- 1838o seated dime (no stars)
Oldest copper-- 1820 LC
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Here, cellar holes are the remains of the original home. They usually burned down and sometimes weren't rebuilt on. Around here, built into the side of a hill is a barn. 3 sides made of stone. Another rock formation may be a root cellar which is just for keeping foods cold and extending their usuable time. Them fields should produce some old coins. They can be very noisy and contain all kinds of junk lol Broken china can mean an old home site or just the area they used to bury their trash. Definitely try it and let us know what you come up with. I have had some real nice success with hunting old farm fields, although some have also been eerily quiet.
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Thanks George and Dan for the insight. I admit I have soooo much to learn about this hobby, I mean sport... lol
I'm hoping Angie will join me in the field- it's a hugenormous corn field! thumbsup01 100+ acres of plowed field- on the top of the highest knob is the old homesite at about the very center. What a view standing there in the middle of it- an arrowhead hunters dream! I wonder if there's an arrowhead section here? It does involve some 'dirt digging' to extent
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