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Hi! New member here. I'm so thankful I have found a place like this. Seems I'm going to need help and or advice in the future.
I live in East Texas. Lindale to be exact. I have some property my wife and I bought about 6 years ago. Seems the history goes quite a ways back from what we can find out about it. The town was founded in 1871, but the first settlers arrived around 1836. I think this holds true for our property, but can't be for certain.
This past summer I noticed a depression near the front entrance. I never though much about it. It had bricks piled in it. But what struck my interest was there were glass jars sticking out of the sand. Out of curiosity I started removing brick after brick and jars start popping up everywhere. It took a lot of effort to get most of the debris removed from the hole. There was a huge foundation footing? in the hole that I had to literally rolled out it was so heavy.
But after getting most of the debris out of the hole, I started finding bottles. Jars, medicine bottles, ect.
Fast forward a ways and now I am at around the 10-11ft mark with no end in sight. I have stuck my 4ft probe into the bottom and it still drops down easily. I cut some stairs leading into the hole, but there's still quite a drop; especially since I continue to dig. I can no longer throw the dirt up and out of the hole. It is just too deep.
I don't know what to do at this point. Any suggestions?
I found another area last years as well. Just off the driveway. Not knowing anything was there at the time, I used my skid steer to remove some brush that leads down into a gully. That's how I found them. Bottles started popping up everywhere. I only dug into the dirt around 2-3ft at most, but the return was quite good.
Between the two dig sights, I have amassed around 400-500? estimated. There's old mixed in with newer bottles. Since I haven't reached the bottom of my deepest hole, I can't say how old these are going to get.
I think I have found a third sight, but have only pulled a few out of it. I don't think I have actually located the hole. Or maybe they were just thrown over there randomly. one of them was a Mrs. Stewarts Bluing bottle. Around 10-15 yrds from that is another possible sight. It has bricks stacked in a pile with brush and debris coving it. I haven't even got to it, yet.
Anyway, just thought I would introduce myself. Any ideas on how to dig this 10FT + hole without burying myself alive?
I live in East Texas. Lindale to be exact. I have some property my wife and I bought about 6 years ago. Seems the history goes quite a ways back from what we can find out about it. The town was founded in 1871, but the first settlers arrived around 1836. I think this holds true for our property, but can't be for certain.
This past summer I noticed a depression near the front entrance. I never though much about it. It had bricks piled in it. But what struck my interest was there were glass jars sticking out of the sand. Out of curiosity I started removing brick after brick and jars start popping up everywhere. It took a lot of effort to get most of the debris removed from the hole. There was a huge foundation footing? in the hole that I had to literally rolled out it was so heavy.
But after getting most of the debris out of the hole, I started finding bottles. Jars, medicine bottles, ect.
Fast forward a ways and now I am at around the 10-11ft mark with no end in sight. I have stuck my 4ft probe into the bottom and it still drops down easily. I cut some stairs leading into the hole, but there's still quite a drop; especially since I continue to dig. I can no longer throw the dirt up and out of the hole. It is just too deep.
I don't know what to do at this point. Any suggestions?
I found another area last years as well. Just off the driveway. Not knowing anything was there at the time, I used my skid steer to remove some brush that leads down into a gully. That's how I found them. Bottles started popping up everywhere. I only dug into the dirt around 2-3ft at most, but the return was quite good.
Between the two dig sights, I have amassed around 400-500? estimated. There's old mixed in with newer bottles. Since I haven't reached the bottom of my deepest hole, I can't say how old these are going to get.
I think I have found a third sight, but have only pulled a few out of it. I don't think I have actually located the hole. Or maybe they were just thrown over there randomly. one of them was a Mrs. Stewarts Bluing bottle. Around 10-15 yrds from that is another possible sight. It has bricks stacked in a pile with brush and debris coving it. I haven't even got to it, yet.
Anyway, just thought I would introduce myself. Any ideas on how to dig this 10FT + hole without burying myself alive?