Anyone for a back breaking workout?

[Dabeel]

So I was inspired by Joe the crow and ajohn to get out today and wander through the wooded stream area that had a women's dormitory on the grounds in the late 1880's. By looking at maps from 1889 there used to be a lot of out buildings used by the maintenance workers as small repair and storage sheds right on the banks of the stream that still runs through.

I was just poking around the banks at the stream looking for tossed bottles and found this mega well built into one of the banks of the stream. Now the question is.....who wants to come here and excavate this thing with me?.......keep in mind it could be a big fat goose egg in terms of finding anything. My boredom of not doing any digging lately is tempting me to want to explore it.

Here are the pics......oh yea and this is in Oakland, CA for those who have travel plans....hee hee[]

Doug

 

[Dabeel]

look at the width alone of this thing.....

 

[Dabeel]

another one of part of the stream that runs quite a ways through the old school grounds.

That's all for now,

Doug

 

[cyberdigger]

That's just about the weirdest thing I ever saw! I doubt it's bottle-laden, but who knows.. []

 

[JOETHECROW]

Looks like a really cool place to explore Doug....My nephew lives in the Santa Cruz area...He used to dig with me years ago, but now he's married and he's real busy with school.He graduated Berkley w/ honors and is studying to be a natural healer....[]

 

[CALDIGR2]

Doug, that thing's mortared, so is most likely far too new to have any bottles in it. You can run a 6' probe in it to see if there might be a layer, but it is doubtful.

 

[Dabeel]

Thanks Mike........yea I noticed that too, you know when your bored and want to dig something your mind is saying.."Well maybe there is something at the bottom of that thing"..................I'm going to a least probe it today or tomorrow and do a test hole on it.

With these rains softening up the ground, I bet you're going to be digging something soon in Sac, huh?


Doug

 

[cowseatmaize]

What's the terrain like behind. Could it be a rain water collector. If it was be careful when you get on top. It might be a part rotten iron grate partly buried in topsoil. Mortar has been around for a millennium and if it's for water, it has to be mortared.
It looks like a good 2 thousand gallons from the pictures.

 

[Lordbud]

The Bay Area has been so dug out. Even a second generation (1970s) digger/collector like myself has went back and revisited places I already dug to see "if anything's left". There might be scattered stray bottles on the outskirts of some of the dumps but good luck finding a solitary bottle in two or three feet of overburden on a well-dug creekbank...almost all the potential "tear-down: new construction" lots are so well-monitored by everyone with an interest. The playing field is getting smaller and more crowded by the month or so it would seem.
Hey Doug, any news on that lot in Oakland?

 

[Wangan]

Looks like a wishing well.