Ever find anything historically interesting on your land?

YIKES!!!!!

Yes, as a matter of fact, this years garden is the first one here. When we tilled it, I borrowed my dad's metal detector and went over the garden. The first thing I found was a French madallion. Has Nepollian (Barnipard Napolian) sp?- on it with the hook.

Our house was built in '38, but before this was the Army base(tent training camp) during WWI. Where they were trained and sent to France. Some would come back from France and train others. Under our back yard we still have the 'wood' hand built water lines they used then.

Our dogs dig up alot of old marbles, and old lock once.

I am going to get back out there soon with the metal detector and see what else I can find. I like anything historical and it is fun.

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Harvesting is not just what you bring from the ground, but what you bring from inside you!

I'm in a whole 'nother country and continent- we run around on road trips saying 'Look DD13- that church we just drove by is 4/3/6/5/whatever times as old as our country (USA)!'

Whilst digging up the grass in my backyard for the garden I found of course a horseshoe- on our front doorway now. Also found several smooth spheres too perfect to be natural. Yes indeed- confirmed at the local Andover Iron Age Museum- these are Iron Age slingshot balls made of clay and chalk mixed together (then fired). Another variation not in my backyard is the same with a hole through it to use as a weight for weaving. Wow! Rolling around in my hand the tool of a man/boy from 2-3000 years ago.... http://www.hants.gov.uk/countryside/danebury/

I have an old horse drawn plow/cultivator on my property. On the property next door there is an small old trappers cabin, it's quite delapitated now though. Chris

A hole developed in my yard and to my surprise it was an opening to a room. It was covered with hand hune rail ties but one rotted to uncover the hole. It is about 6 x 5 feet and maybe 6 foot deep. I imagine its an old food storage spot.

The barn here is almost 200 years old. I found lots of old huening tools, stanley tools and harvesting equipment like a winnowing machine in excellent condition.

ONly last week I rented a mini excavator to do some work on my place and when I was digging out a low area for better drainage , ran into a lot of 4-6 inch diameter logs buried crosswise across the draw. They were about a foot down. At first I thought it was an old foot bridge as it was only about 4 feet wide, but as I stuck my hand down into the much and started digging I found out the logs were stacked at least 4 deep- that is as far down as I dug by hand. I am thinking now it must have been an old dam. The ends of the logs were cut, so I know it was done by someone with tools. Every one of the logs that I dug up by accident at first was peeled of all bark, so somebody put a lot of work into that dam.

"Every find anything historically interesting on your land?" ....

just me.

Hugs
Marlene

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It is the one with persistence and determination that brings great ideas into being.

I love "old stuff", especially found old stuff.

The only things we have found on our property are a couple of arrowheads. And a tool of some sort. Looks like it is flint. It is rounded on top to fit your palm with a groove for your thumb to fit into. The bottom is thin and sharp. I am guessing that it might have been used to shape the arrowheads or clean animal hides.

I found a 1920 over under shot gun in the fork of a tree. the tree had grown around the gun, There were some old beer bottles laying around the tree, Guess he forgot where he left the gun, Found lot's of arrowheads, found a tea set buried under the house i had in VA, found a 1925 ford car in the woods here, and a cellar. My friend found a pistal from the war between the states that was in a creek in TN, it was cocked and never faired, guess he was taken down frist, Found 2 graves in the hills, one was a small headstone that belonged to a union solder, the other head stone was large and belonged to a rebel solder, they were together, same date on head stone, Reble got the bigger stone as it was in NC