JOETHECROW
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Joined: 9/3/2005
From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
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This would have been a good one to have the camera along on, but my bad,...I forgot to bring it. We'll be going back, so next time for sure. Me, Fred, and Tom decided to go check out the farm from the last pics above....The area where the glass and crockery were was behind a rectangular area outlined with large flat stones, the area was about 18' x 30' and looked just like a typical barn foundation...and not a cellar hole....On the 1923 map which is the oldest we have access to, there is only one "dot" there, We don't know if the barn was gone by then,or if the house was built on this odd foundation, We proceeded to dig, and were finding a weird mix of household items, fragments of bottles, canning jar parts, and a lot of iron artifacts, ax heads, stove parts, a logging chain with rings and hooks that was probably still useable, horseshoes, but also goblets, broken stemware and plates etc.....One broken goblet looked almost ceremonial, with alternating ruby red, and clear panels, with a tapered body, six sides and short stem,...I dug all but one piece of it, and meant to grab it for pics but forgot. While Fred and I dug, Tom went walkabout, and was gone for over an hour,...since this spot is bear laden, after awhile Fred and I were joking around, but hoping Tom was alright. He eventually returned w/ a small clear med, and a story of an area along a steep bank with a rockpile, square stone lined privy, and old lily plants gone wild, spread around this site with fragments on top, and mixed in the stones...Great,...lets go check it out! We packed up and followed Tom through the woods for quite a ways,....It was just as he described it, with the obvious privy foundation backed up to the bank there in the rocks and shade...We searched around and decided they dumped their trash back near the privy in amongst the rocks,...good,...and bad, because we all know how well the two mix! A few pics to follow of the sort of stuff in this latest homestead dump.
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Joe
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In the woods we return to reason and faith.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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RE: Just a little outing to keep the tools shined up... - 
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