reddog176

Hey reddog, get some Sanborn maps for your area and you will see where all the buildings were in the past, even outhouses.
Dig an old privy and I guarantee you will find all sorts of stuff.

http://collection1.l...OPTR=3044&REC=2

I've been trying to locate sanborn's that cover where I am for the past year with no luck. I'm out in the sticks.

I've got an outhouse dig I've been working on, but they filled the top 3 feet in with rocks and the diggings slow.

I did get back out today. I managed to find one more today, it's a bit narrower, but mostly the same. Mostly lots of barbed wire.

Here's a few more pictures for scale.
https://picasaweb.google.com/108121855549135220107/MetalDetecting?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Where are you or this homestead located? In the north? maybe for traction or travel on ice?

Yes, I'm in northeastern Pennsylvania.

I would go with the staples too---were they located near one another? A simple gate can be made by having large staples in the fence posts that you can pull saplings through to close the gap and push them out to open it.

One was located near the homestead site itself, 4 (and possibly more, as I got tired of digging) are located on the edges of an old overgrown roadway that lead to the house.

Greetings,

I've been metal detecting around an old farmstead. The farmstead burned down around 1908, and have come across 5 (so far) horseshoe looking chunks of iron. For the size, I'll assume their draft horse shoes. They've got traction bars on the top, this I know. What's throwing me off is the pointed ends. Anyone have any insight into this?



Reddog176