Even though the ticks are out in force this year, it seemed like it's been awhile since me & my team have scouted out a new cellar hole. I targeted a nice patch of woods that was loaded with stone walls & a nice stream (water source) & we figured they were the boundrys of some long lost farmlands. There were walls & rock stacks everywhere from past plowing......but there were so many walls it took us awhile to finally locate a foundation. As we hiked, the walls finally got higher & more well built (here's Rob by an unusually high one). We knew we were close......
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After finally finding this cellar hole that looked to be late 1700's, we all fanned out anxious to see what was in the ground. I had a F75LTD, Rob was using the Omega. There were also several outbuilding foundations like root cellars, barns, etc. But we quickly found out this was gonna be a huge challenge....
There were iron overloads everywhere as it apparently was active well into the 1900's. This may take the cake as the most iron loaded cellar on my GPS, with maybe 250 years of trash scattered about. Here's a shot of the main house cellar hole.
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We dug out tons of iron trash for a few hours, ate lunch & kept trying. I was able to muster up a couple flat buttons, & then I saw what looked like a glit of gold!
I thought I had a gold pocket watch part, but it reads high on the F75 so I think it's just plated 
Probably my best relic find was another heart stopper.........I thought I had a George Washington Inaugural button. The large late 1700's coat button is the same size, & I saw some kinda pattern on it coming outta the ground. At first glance it looked liked the infamous "chicken hawk" wings. But, a quick wipe showed it's not a GW bird but still a cool, hand-designed Colonial coat button with some gold gilt highlights...
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I was surprised nobody nailed a coin, but we know they are there under all that iron so we'll be back soon......
We all gut sick of digging out large iron overloads so we followed some more walls & ended the hike finding another sweet looking cellar hole that looks even older & less trashy. If it's never been detected we should do well. So we GPS'ed it & hiked back to the car......
Hopefully I'll make another post or even a video soon after we give it a shot.....
HH,
Bill
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After finally finding this cellar hole that looked to be late 1700's, we all fanned out anxious to see what was in the ground. I had a F75LTD, Rob was using the Omega. There were also several outbuilding foundations like root cellars, barns, etc. But we quickly found out this was gonna be a huge challenge....
There were iron overloads everywhere as it apparently was active well into the 1900's. This may take the cake as the most iron loaded cellar on my GPS, with maybe 250 years of trash scattered about. Here's a shot of the main house cellar hole.
[attachment 197679 pknshole4.jpg]
We dug out tons of iron trash for a few hours, ate lunch & kept trying. I was able to muster up a couple flat buttons, & then I saw what looked like a glit of gold!
I thought I had a gold pocket watch part, but it reads high on the F75 so I think it's just plated Probably my best relic find was another heart stopper.........I thought I had a George Washington Inaugural button. The large late 1700's coat button is the same size, & I saw some kinda pattern on it coming outta the ground. At first glance it looked liked the infamous "chicken hawk" wings. But, a quick wipe showed it's not a GW bird but still a cool, hand-designed Colonial coat button with some gold gilt highlights...
[attachment 197680 PknLotButtons.jpg]
I was surprised nobody nailed a coin, but we know they are there under all that iron so we'll be back soon......
We all gut sick of digging out large iron overloads so we followed some more walls & ended the hike finding another sweet looking cellar hole that looks even older & less trashy. If it's never been detected we should do well. So we GPS'ed it & hiked back to the car......
Hopefully I'll make another post or even a video soon after we give it a shot.....
HH,
Bill
