historyhunter
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Fellow Bottle freaks,
I have gained permission on a schoolhouse. I find it on the 1872 maps I'm pretty positive. Here is my question. The bottom of it is concrete. The coal chute has 1888 on it. So I am confused. The only thing I can think is there is a lot of stone around the base of building so maybe at one point they refinished the foundation? There is clearly very hard ground and some very soft ground. I probed for hours and found no clear ash in my samples. It has some newer stuff on the building that was obvious add ons years later due to it being a ma bell storage building for a year or two before they emptied it out and left it. Its on a friends property. I will put up picture is 15 minutes or so.
Has anyone had experience getting permission on a schoolhouse or these discrepancies in age? I imagine there wont be alcohol or sodas prolly but maybe medicines and school trash. This is only my second permission and I realize I am horrible at finding the privies casue I can bury my probe but not tell what Im in. Druggistnut took me out on a dig before but probing was already done. If I couldnt bury my probe all over on these properties Id feel like I knew what I was doing a little bit. I look for anomalies,etc. I even pulled up many schoolhouse pics to find how far they were putting them away. ONLY because I thought due to larger amounts of children then adults they are closer than usual. Which by the pics Ive seen that can be reasonably presumed. Hmmmmm. I'm going Crazy in Michigan.
I have gained permission on a schoolhouse. I find it on the 1872 maps I'm pretty positive. Here is my question. The bottom of it is concrete. The coal chute has 1888 on it. So I am confused. The only thing I can think is there is a lot of stone around the base of building so maybe at one point they refinished the foundation? There is clearly very hard ground and some very soft ground. I probed for hours and found no clear ash in my samples. It has some newer stuff on the building that was obvious add ons years later due to it being a ma bell storage building for a year or two before they emptied it out and left it. Its on a friends property. I will put up picture is 15 minutes or so.
Has anyone had experience getting permission on a schoolhouse or these discrepancies in age? I imagine there wont be alcohol or sodas prolly but maybe medicines and school trash. This is only my second permission and I realize I am horrible at finding the privies casue I can bury my probe but not tell what Im in. Druggistnut took me out on a dig before but probing was already done. If I couldnt bury my probe all over on these properties Id feel like I knew what I was doing a little bit. I look for anomalies,etc. I even pulled up many schoolhouse pics to find how far they were putting them away. ONLY because I thought due to larger amounts of children then adults they are closer than usual. Which by the pics Ive seen that can be reasonably presumed. Hmmmmm. I'm going Crazy in Michigan.
