JGUIS
Well-Known Member
Thinking back on a house I knew of about 15 years ago, I decided to check it out today. It being at least a mile from any road or other house in the middle of the woods wasn't protection enough. It somehow burned down to the foundation, which by the way is full of water and frogs. Found a few shards of some salt fired crocks around the house itself. Very crappy area all around the house, all the slate from the roof is like a tile floor under the leaves, not to mention that the area is very near where flint was gathered/mined by our native friends, and the ground is absolutely filled with it from chips to several hundred pound boulders of the stuff. Has anyone else noticed the similar sound to the right piece of flint while probing? About 200' from the house is a pit in the hillside, it has boulders scattered about, no trash. Thinking this may have been either a coal mine, or a flint quarry. The impression is about 20' by 40', dropping about 8-10'. On the other side of the old roadbed from the house was either a small barn or a chicken house. It was about 15-20' deep by 60' wide, dont ever remember seeing that when the house was still standing. Found an unembossed beer, some frags, and the same as with the house with the slate, but add all the rotting wood layer too, with a side of briars. Between this building and the roadbed, is a systern which had a pipe for a pump leading to the house. It was brick, and had water in it. Below it were a few frags, a little further downhill yielded the lid(I always find the lids to the darn broken crocks!), and a few frags. About 200' away from the barn along the hill is a wash with alot of glass in it, but most of it is newer stuff. I thought I saw something nice in the leaves and it turned out to be a root beer bottle with the digital stamp on the bottom. This place has obviously been picked at, but not dug. Most things are ketchup, PB, then some amber Clorox, pieces of pinkish milks, Crooksville china, but everythings broken. I dug about 1/3 of one side of the wash, down to the clay(which was only about a foot if that) and found nothing of value, except 2 broken local sodas which I have been looking for.
I did find a piece of an interesting looking bottle and am wondering if anyone knows anything about it just from the top. It is a very nice dark green, full of bubbles, seam fades into the neck about 2" from the top. You can see a twist in the bubbles in this 2". One finger of the break made it passed the shoulder showing it to be SS, and on the edge of that piece is the tip of an embossed letter. Any ideas? I'm wondering if I should keep digging, or try another approach on the whole property.
I did find a piece of an interesting looking bottle and am wondering if anyone knows anything about it just from the top. It is a very nice dark green, full of bubbles, seam fades into the neck about 2" from the top. You can see a twist in the bubbles in this 2". One finger of the break made it passed the shoulder showing it to be SS, and on the edge of that piece is the tip of an embossed letter. Any ideas? I'm wondering if I should keep digging, or try another approach on the whole property.
