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Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 12:11:22 AM    VirginiaDigger   Posts: 510 Joined: 5/10/2005 Status: offline Heres a place I found but I don't know where to dig??? The grave stones are about 100 yards from the house & date all the way back to the 1820's. Can anyone help?? Thanks & happy diggin!! Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 12:16:41 AM    VirginiaDigger   Posts: 510 Joined: 5/10/2005 Status: offline house 2 Attachment (1) (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 2

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 12:17:23 AM    VirginiaDigger   Posts: 510 Joined: 5/10/2005 Status: offline house 3 Attachment (1) (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 3

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 12:18:06 AM    VirginiaDigger   Posts: 510 Joined: 5/10/2005 Status: offline house 4 Attachment (1) (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 4

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 12:19:06 AM    VirginiaDigger   Posts: 510 Joined: 5/10/2005 Status: offline house 5 Attachment (1) (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 5

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 12:22:03 AM    VirginiaDigger   Posts: 510 Joined: 5/10/2005 Status: offline house 6 Attachment (1) (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 6

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 12:23:07 AM    VirginiaDigger   Posts: 510 Joined: 5/10/2005 Status: offline house 7 Attachment (1) (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 7

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 1:09:21 AM    Willman669   Posts: 158 Joined: 12/30/2005 From: nsw australia Status: offline If you're after bottles first of all you should look everywhere for broken glass, pottery or wire on or stivking out of the surface. Old farm Tips are usually in a 500 metre radius of the house. So get looking for glass and in you find some bring out the old Prod to make sure it is a tip. (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 8

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 1:51:13 AM    DiggerBryan   Posts: 893 Joined: 12/3/2004 From: Ohio Status: offline I can see this making a good setting for slasher movie no? Kinda spooky especially with the grave yard. But I would say you hit the jackpot! If it were me I would go out and get myself a probe and try to find that privy. Can you say pontil?? _____________________________ Life is easy with your eyes closed. (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 9

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 2:09:37 AM    madman Posts: 10369 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline probe probe probe!! very nice, thanks for sharing! looks like a jackpot to me also (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 10

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 3:29:01 AM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Look for small depressions within 100ft of the back of the house for some privys. The grass may be a little healthier and greener than the surounding area even in the winter. For the dumps look for any ditch, washout, gully, or ravine. Also check out the edges of any swampy mud holes and the back side of fences and corner of fields. The dumps will be down wind of the house so if you cand find out what the prevailing winds are it will help you locate them. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 11

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 3:48:21 AM    Andyf   Posts: 98 Joined: 12/13/2005 From: Across the pond in England Status: offline Hi Well I can tell you one place NOT to dig..otherwise you may end up in your very own Steven King movie....!! Seriously though, this looks a great site. I 'd agree with the other posters, probe methodically until you find the privies, there will probably be quite a few of them... Do post photos of what you find! good lucK! Andyf (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 12

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 6:24:27 AM    dirtflicker Posts: 936 Joined: 9/19/2005 Status: offline PROBE YOUR A$$ OF AND FIND THAT PRIVY! THAT'S WHERE YOUR GONNA FIND THE REAL OLDIES! (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 13

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 7:00:25 AM    bearswede Posts: 3191 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline I'd check in the house, in the cellar, under the porch too... Outbuildings, etc... Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 14

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 7:09:41 AM    amblypygi Posts: 622 Joined: 4/6/2004 From: Western Massachusetts Status: offline Wow, great old house. Ron's right about checking the house, but you should get permission if you can. If you've got an extra 600 grand or so you should buy the place and restore it, a house like that is the untimate antique. Whole lotta work though... < Message edited by amblypygi -- 3/15/2006 7:10:09 AM > (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 15

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/15/2006 7:43:24 AM    crkgrl   Posts: 142 Joined: 11/20/2005 From: Kentucky Status: offline I too wondered what is happening to the house? Always said if I had more money and time I would go around saving old houses. < Message edited by crkgrl -- 3/15/2006 7:43:42 AM > (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 16

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/16/2006 6:13:58 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline Look for banks, stone walls and stone piles. If you find a stone pile then they may be under the stone pile. Usually in back of the house or across the road. In a ditch, just remember how they thought back then. Out of sight out of mind. Are you close to a creek or a river or a swampy spot? Are there any old cars out back in the woods. You're probably not going to find a dump on flat land. Some people would put there trash out bak of the cemetary as well. But I do have to agree with these guys. Get out that probe, find a helper and dig some privy's. There should be a few there. Just my 2 cents worth, hope this helps. Jason (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 17

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/17/2006 8:19:11 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 330 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline place looks really haunted dont **** any body off if you know what i mean.... my first place would be under the porch then branch out ..... < Message edited by portland med. man -- 3/17/2006 8:20:21 PM > (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 18

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/17/2006 9:18:23 PM    Mainely Broken   Posts: 48 Joined: 11/4/2005 From: GUESS??? Status: offline I would agree with Ron (Bearswede) check within for any inside privy but off the main house first. Then start your search off house from pic 3. I mean really would Miss Scarlet travel all that far to go to the privy?? As far as your pic's go ...wow if 12 oaks where BBQ'N tonight...I'd be there! Awesome sight! Imagine what you will find???With permission I hope? Good luck & post pic's, Vicky < Message edited by Mainely Broken -- 3/17/2006 9:22:34 PM > (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 19

RE: Old House With 1820s Gravestones Need Help!! - 3/17/2006 9:26:12 PM    Mainepontil Posts: 215 Joined: 1/11/2005 Status: offline All the bottles are under the porch....I can see them from here. Just kidding...but not really..thats where I always find them. Joel _____________________________ Dig it NOW....before a housing development is built. (in reply to VirginiaDigger) Post #: 20

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