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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 02:48pm
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Our property has some long history about it and our cabin was built in 1870's. As I've dug drainage, laid wire, dug post holes etc., I've been collecting old finds along the way. I've found tons of old bottles, two plow shares, an iron shoe rest for repairing shoes, an arrow head, a buggy step, horse collar, a couple of axes etc. I'll try and post pics later. Anyone care to share their finds?
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Don_P
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 03:04pm
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Oh, I thought you meant the old guys down at the turnaround.
Our land was more summer hunting ground on the fringes of Cherokee and Shawnee and they would have simply been crossing my land. The old house is on the neighbors half of what was the old farm ~1920's. I've found canning jar lids, etc. Found the rock filled outhouse pit by dropping in with a bush hog. I have found neat stuff working on old places though. The current job had some cool finds, a carved, split, and bent wooden stirrup, lots of bottles... Miss Ettie made the neighborhood recipe.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 03:34pm
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Arrowheads. Old iron parts from some kind of wood stove. Old iron pipe fittings & nipples. Some very rusted tin cans. Glass pieces.
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 06:01pm - Edited by: bldginsp
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Notches cut in large, old stumps which the loggers used in pre-chainsaw days. They cut a notch in the base of the stump to fix a plank into that they stood on while wielding their 'misery whip' dual hand saw. Property was first logged in the 1930s when there were 3-5 foot diameter pines and fir. The largest now is maybe 30".
Only metal I've found is a single square nail.
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skootamattaschmidty
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 07:48pm
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Our cabin is built where the remains of a power plant were for an old gold mine nearby that ran in the 1920's. We have found glass insulators, pieces of metal that held the wooden waterways together, glass jars etc. On one of our more recent trips we found a piece of what appears to be a chimney pipe. The building that housed the turbines for the electricity is still standing as well as some of the old damns and sluice ways. Each walk out in the woods usually leads to a new surprise. The only thing we haven't found yet is gold but we are always hoping!
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Just
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 08:13pm
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Quoting: skootamattaschmidty we haven't found yet
We know you found it skoot' Fess Up
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 08:32pm
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Quoting: bldginsp They cut a notch in the base of the stump to fix a plank into that they stood on
Spring boards is what those are called. I see lots of those old stumps here too.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2015 09:06pm
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We find all kinds of stuff. Everything on the shelf except the lantern we found.We live by an old coal mine so that explains a bunch of the glassware. If broken old whiskey bottles were worth anything, I would be rich. And we are about 20 miles east of Cahokia Mounds so this whole area has a lot of Indian artifacts. These are a few of them. We found all of these in the creek, not in the fields.
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skootamattaschmidty
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2015 05:54am
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Those are some cool finds darz!
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2015 07:46am
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Does seeing ones own reflection count ? If So, then I see relic's frequently. Otherwise, haven't found any lost treasures, goodies or relics from the past. Maybe I'll find something next year when digging up the garden area.
Darz you managed to find quite an interesting assortment, I'd be putting some of those on display as well... part of the property history as it were... If those things could talk, I'm sure there would be many interesting stories.
I know there are collectors of old bottles and have seen some go for crazy amounts of money if they were special or unique... You never know what you might have there.
@Skoot... Sounds like your property there is worth some dedicated exploration time... got a metal detector ? Hopefully you own the mineral rights etc to the property so no one shows up with some old paper laying claim to the old Gold Mine... I know someone that happened to in BC.
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Bzzzzzt
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2015 06:27pm
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The guy I bought our land from told me that he had purchased the acreage from a guy who had bought it from a genuine hippie commune from back in the 60's. I only own a small piece of the thing but just off my property there is a foundation of what appears to be a round house (not the railroad kind) with a big hexagon shaped concrete pad in the center. I would guess the house was about 500-600 sq ft. They used natural stone from the area for the foundation and the mortar looks like that I have seen from the 1930's. I was told that prior to the hippies it was owned by a farm family and I suspect this may have been their house or perhaps it was a separate kitchen? I know they used to have those before they moved the kitchens into the house.
The other day I was musing around out there and found all the metal parts of an old door knob that used a skeleton key. Those usually has some wood parts and those are all gone. Down the path a ways there is a burn pile that I have looked through and found several things from the 80's. Bottles, TV's, and the like. Just trash. I'm glad that it's not on what I own cause I don't want to have to clean that up!
I have a metal detector and sometimes when I'm just messing around I'll take it into some random places in the woods and dig up buried treasures. Usually just discarded nails or bits of barbed wire. I'm sure one of these days I'll find that stash of gold coins that the James brothers left behind.
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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2015 06:48pm
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Here are some finds
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Malamute
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2015 07:12pm
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I found an arrowhead and some pottery shards on the Az place. Found a buffalo horn sheath in my current yard, Very old looking. I think the buffalo were killed out of this area in the 1880's.
A different place I lived nearby, a visiting friend found an inside primed 45-70 shell. The inside primed shells were only used a few years in the 1870s to maybe the early 1880s (don't recall exactly).
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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2015 07:30pm
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Cool. Just picked up my new deer rifle, a 45-70. That thing is a beast!
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darz5150
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2015 10:08pm - Edited by: darz5150
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Smawgunner, you got some cool stuff goin' on there. I noticed the glass insulator that you had with your bottles. Quite a few years ago a guy gave me a trailer load of the crossbars that were on the telegraph poles that ran along the railway close to here. We ended up using the insulators for target practice. Not so smart. I later found out that the insulators, especially the colored ones can fetch $20 bucks or more at the local antique shops!!! Doh!
We tried a metal detector...it never stopped going off. Metal everywhere!
Square nails, conveyor parts from the coal mine/rail road, and most interesting was an old car! Now who buries a whole car? We dug enough to prove it was a car. No skeleton in the trunk! Whew!!😱😲
One mans trash is another mans treasure, but like bzzzzzt said earlier, sometimes one mans trash is well....one mans trash.LOL
Keep searchin' my friend.
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 01:11am - Edited by: silverwaterlady
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We have a old dump on our property used from approximately 1930-1970. There is the shell of a VW. Plenty of old bottles and rusty cans. I'll post some photos later.
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 05:17pm - Edited by: silverwaterlady
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Here are our finds from the old garbage dump on our property:
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 05:25pm - Edited by: silverwaterlady
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We also found a large brown Javex jug and a square colbalt blue bottle.
The dump was used by the farmer that owned our property before we bought it from him,he also let his friends from town dump their garbage.
We have not been to our dump in quite a few years. We are to busy trying to finish our cabin. We will be doing more digging around in the dump when we can spend more time up there.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 07:37pm
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Very cool. Can't figure out what the one on the right is...
The cobalt blue glass bottles are very collectable. Blue Mason jars sell for a good bit also. I paid $5 for one with a chipped lip. Now that's my go-to drinkin' glass.
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 11:52pm
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The photo on the right is a sprinkler that is put on a bottle to sprinkle water onto clothing before ironing.
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rmak
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2015 09:26am
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Out in the woods behind our 1875 farmhouse there were two trash dumps with all kinds of cool antique bottles and jars. As someone else mentioned, this dumping was standard procedure in the old days. Many of the glass items were broken, but we have kept and cleaned up a lot of the ones we found intact. Makes me wonder if a hundred years from now someone will treasure our junky crap.
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neb
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2015 10:00am
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I haven't found any thing but haven't looked to hard yet. That is one thing I will be doing when I retire. I would like to get a metal detector. I have an old cabin tar paper shack on my land and I would think there would be some things around there that would be interesting. I did use the cast iron tops from the old stove in there for my stove at the cabin.
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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2015 10:33am
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Neb, once you buy a metal detector you'll be HOOKED! I can't put mine down. Be sure to buy a good one.
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