10-27-2016, 10:21 PM
I was to this area last year and found several silvers, some nickels, head stamps, bullets, a few newer campfire rings and tons of can tops and old beer cans. It's a vast area covering around 300 acres, with an old abandoned wagon road, long stretches of old rock rubble property line divides and about 15% as river bottom land. It has 4 major plateau spots which valley off to each side and stretch out like giant fingers pointing to the river. The deer are abundant and the scenery is just out of this world in the Fall. Every time I've been there, I've had the entire place to myself and the wildlife. It is truly nature at it's best.
Yesterday I decided to follow the top edge of one of the plateau's from it's cutoff point of the Interstate right down past the wagon road and to the river, doing about a fifteen to twenty foot wide zigzag search, hopping fallen trees, going around patches of wild raspberries and pacing myself through thick depths of fallen leaves. I found several permanent topographical markers, what we call here Western Reserve Survey Markers, which were put in place by the Department of The Navy and their cartographic teams from the late 1840's up until around 1908. I always pay attention to those because I've found a lot of LC's, one Canadian half penny and one IH in their vicinity elsewhere where I've discovered them. But Wednesday just yielded a horseshoe, an abundance of rotted square nails and a tab to what looks like a carpenters hand plane. I've been trying to figure out how they did this cartographic feat now for some years, and being a masonry guy myself, I would always look for where they set up shop in the vicinity and do their preliminary work. So far I haven't figured out how they installed 5 foot long concrete monoliths, 7" x 7" at the top, pyramid shaped, buried so only 1 foot was above grade, with a round wrought iron rod in the center, protruding 1" from the top, and setting them to the exact grade topographical height for map reference. The angle of the slope of the monolith is 1" per foot of height, so the base, 4 foot below grade, is 12"x 12", or 1 square foot. I measured it being the inquisitive fellow I am.
Wednesdays photo includes the brass carpenters plane tang (?) and a spill of pennies all within 4" of each other. A 64 D came up first, then the 46 D Wheat, then a 59 D Memorial, an odd grouping but together as a spill.
Thursdays finds were surprising. 2 buttons within 12' of each other near a rubble property line wall and 2 wheat's, acres apart. One Wheat a 1916, near the rubble wall and clear as a bell, and another a 54 D a ways off.
And so while searching in the woods, these are the things I find, and the things that keep me searching. Because 300 acres is a lot of ground. There was silver there once. There may be again. And more........
Have fun out there Guys and Gals and HAPPY HUNTING!
Ed/Ohio Dirt Fisher
Yesterday I decided to follow the top edge of one of the plateau's from it's cutoff point of the Interstate right down past the wagon road and to the river, doing about a fifteen to twenty foot wide zigzag search, hopping fallen trees, going around patches of wild raspberries and pacing myself through thick depths of fallen leaves. I found several permanent topographical markers, what we call here Western Reserve Survey Markers, which were put in place by the Department of The Navy and their cartographic teams from the late 1840's up until around 1908. I always pay attention to those because I've found a lot of LC's, one Canadian half penny and one IH in their vicinity elsewhere where I've discovered them. But Wednesday just yielded a horseshoe, an abundance of rotted square nails and a tab to what looks like a carpenters hand plane. I've been trying to figure out how they did this cartographic feat now for some years, and being a masonry guy myself, I would always look for where they set up shop in the vicinity and do their preliminary work. So far I haven't figured out how they installed 5 foot long concrete monoliths, 7" x 7" at the top, pyramid shaped, buried so only 1 foot was above grade, with a round wrought iron rod in the center, protruding 1" from the top, and setting them to the exact grade topographical height for map reference. The angle of the slope of the monolith is 1" per foot of height, so the base, 4 foot below grade, is 12"x 12", or 1 square foot. I measured it being the inquisitive fellow I am.
Wednesdays photo includes the brass carpenters plane tang (?) and a spill of pennies all within 4" of each other. A 64 D came up first, then the 46 D Wheat, then a 59 D Memorial, an odd grouping but together as a spill.
Thursdays finds were surprising. 2 buttons within 12' of each other near a rubble property line wall and 2 wheat's, acres apart. One Wheat a 1916, near the rubble wall and clear as a bell, and another a 54 D a ways off.
And so while searching in the woods, these are the things I find, and the things that keep me searching. Because 300 acres is a lot of ground. There was silver there once. There may be again. And more........
Have fun out there Guys and Gals and HAPPY HUNTING!
Ed/Ohio Dirt Fisher
