Squeezed out more buttons, buckles and a copper

[Lodge Scent]

Continued my "farewell tour" of a series of cellar holes that me a and few buddies hit hard about 5 years ago. It appears that the wooded area is going to be developed soon so I've been revisiting these sites while I still can. It will be a shame when it finally goes under the developer's bull dozers. It's just a really nice chunk of woods.

There is a cellar hole right at the top of this rocky knob. Not sure why they chose this site. There is a swamp 20 feet out the back door. Both side yards are nothing but rocks. The front isn't much better.

I managed to find what looks like a badly abused KGII.

Dug a handful of buttons and a few iron buckles.

Stay safe.

Jeff

 

[del]

I heard that by the mid 1700's that almost all farmable land was already owned but over crowded cities pushed people out into the wilderness where they built and tried to exist in rough conditions . Though there are many small home structures in these rocky places you can tell that many were not very prosperous , they didn't stay long and most were abandoned by the 1780's or 90's in the great exodus to the Ohio , Indiana and western Pennsylvania frontiers where the rumor of great farming lands abound and they were cheap to own .

I'm sure your copper was a very hard earned one Jeff , its a shame that these places are destroyed by progress !

 

[Lodge Scent]

That's a good point Dan. Looks like they built on that rocky knob so as not use the little bit of farmable land they had in the front of the site. Now that you mention it, I think every cellar hole in that area was probably located so as to maximize the amount of farmable land. Why else would you build your cabin on a rock ?

 

[OxShoeDrew]

I read that, in addition to what you guys are saying, much of today's swamp land was farmable back before the soil was depleted. You find lots of non-ferrous items at these pounded sites, Jeff! We still have a bunch of snow.

 

[Lodge Scent]

That's an interesting point Drew. But yeah, I can see a lot of these low lying areas as once being farmable. Bummer about the snow. The big storm last week started as snow then turned to rain here along the coast. My nickname for my Deus is "Button Killer" I have it set up to find those smaller, lower conducting targets (buttons) masked by iron at the pounded sites.