Wading Creek

[rebel1]

I did my first creek wading today. I waded three creeks and all I found was a 1/3 of a 56 Coke bottle. It's very disappointing to find nothing. Where do people find creeks with all of those old bottles?

 

[Mailman1960]

I did my first creek wading today. I waded three creeks and all I found was a 1/3 of a 56 Coke bottle. It's very disappointing to find nothing. Where do people find creeks with all of those old bottles?

It helps if a road crosses over it, how old the road is. Better yet if the roads no longer there find some maps and see where roads used to be. If it was easy, well I think you know. Good luck.

 

[Section10]

Find some old plat books or maps. Historical societies can help. Wherever there was a camp or homestead or farm alongside a stream. Bottles & trash always got dumped downhill. Which often meant into the creek. I've walked along old roadsides about a dozen feet beyond the ditch in the spring and found lots of bottles.

 

[Mailman1960]

Find some old plat books or maps. Historical societies can help. Wherever there was a camp or homestead or farm alongside a stream. Bottles & trash always got dumped downhill. Which often meant into the creek. I've walked along old roadsides about a dozen feet beyond the ditch in the spring and found lots of bottles.

You might want to try a probe, it's not very often there sitting there waiting to picked up.

 

[Section10]

I don't use a probe. Haven't needed one. In the woods where I go, they just threw them out. Never dug in an outhouse pit.

 

[Mailman1960]

I don't use a probe. Haven't needed one. In the woods where I go, they just threw them out. Never dug in an outhouse pit.

Where I'm at they threw them in the rivers, in the woods and in the out house.

 

[sandchip]

Folks tended to dump their trash in any low area, so creeks in or on the edge of towns are usually going to have bottles and pottery in them, not to mention arrowheads, since many towns were built on higher ground near a water source, for the same reason Indians settled there. Downstream of early grist mills even way out in the country can also produce occasional artifacts like the ones shown here, which surprised me because I was looking for arrowheads originally, until my son spotted the jug, then it hit me that anything might be here. His find is the one in the middle in the group shot.

 

[rebel1]

It helps if a road crosses over it, how old the road is. Better yet if the roads no longer there find some maps and see where roads used to be. If it was easy, well I think you know. Good luck.

Thank you for your advice. I'm a newbie and at a young 77 I haven't got to many years to find some. Thanks.

 

[rebel1]

Find some old plat books or maps. Historical societies can help. Wherever there was a camp or homestead or farm alongside a stream. Bottles & trash always got dumped downhill. Which often meant into the creek. I've walked along old roadsides about a dozen feet beyond the ditch in the spring and found lots of bottles.

Thank you for the advice. I will try that.

 

[Mailman1960]

Thank you for your advice. I'm a newbie and at a young 77 I haven't got to many years to find some. Thanks.

Rock on!!!!