ROBBYBOBBY64
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What state?Any idea what kind of structure this might be. I came across it at the corner of a swamp/ pond for a house that dates back to early 1800s.
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ROBBYBOBBY64.
What state?Any idea what kind of structure this might be. I came across it at the corner of a swamp/ pond for a house that dates back to early 1800s.
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I found something very similar once, only in my case it was still under construction. I think it was maybe six feet square with a staircase carved into the dirt leading into it and some sort of machinery (likely a rototiller) at the bottom hidden under a tarp. This was in a wooded area in the middle of the city on municipal land, not far from a recreational path, and next to the riverbank. The builders had woven together branches to make a screen which covered the operation from the view of the people living on the other side of the bank. This was in very thick underbrush and very far from the nearest road, so someone had to cart their machinery quite a distance to reach that spot, but it was so close to the path that any work would have been heard by passers by, so presumably everything was being done at night. There were still some very fresh footprints in the dirt, and I suddenly got a bad feeling that I had stumbled upon something potentially very dangerous, so I high-tailed it out of there without sticking around to investigate further.An early septic tank? When I first started digging bottles I found this board laying on the ground- about 3’ squared. Being curious I lifted it and was shocked to find a dirt walled room, underground, with a ladder leading down there. All you could see from up top was a board covering the entrance? That- and laying in the middle of the dirt road, there, was a REAL OLD drilled out safe!! Since I lived right there, I came back a week later- it had been raining and that old dirt hideout, underground, had caved in. I’m glad I didn’t go in & check it out from the inside. It was far more deep than what’s in your pix…. I wish I kept that safe. That was just one of the most bizarre things I’ve ran into, while digging!
It was York University in Toronto, I remembered wrong and the guys who built it weren't engineering students, they were young construction workers who lived near the campus. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tunnel-dug-by-2-men-as-man-cave-police-say-1.2978109Very interesting. I've enjoyed this thread, and Canadian Bottles, always maintained "It could be two things." So watch out for those bored college students' underground activities. Seems like ground penetrating radar will be a more standard tool for our kind. Ahhh, I remember the ole days when a metal detector was considered cheating... Say, what college was that? Thx.