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I'm a cellar hole raider! New England is great for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
But I also like fossil hunting. MY favorite places are the beaches in Nova Scotia (red sandstone, primitive plants), and the gorges around the Finger Lakes in upsate NY (shale, marine plants and trilobites).
stinky~im an old foundation digger. the road i grew up on was settled way back when. (way before the civil war, matter of fact the bucktails came from my neck of the woods, but anyways) there are a lot of old foundations at the top of the road that are a blast to dig around in. ive found some neat stuff, just this spring i found a great bottle that was apparently some crazy docs cure all, and it still has the product in it!
lol.. have you tried it? :D
I'm near Old Deerfield, and cellarholes around here date back into the 1700s, but they are pretty well cleared out because the history of the place is no secret. You'll see guys wandering around cornfields with metal detectors every spirng, and it's not unusual to find arrowheads either, or REALLY old pottery shards in the Deerfield River. I've found both English china and Indian pottery around here, which surprised me because I was not previously aware that the local indigenous peoples were potters at all.
Anyway, cool. My favorite bottles are those tiny little cobalt-glass jars about an inch around and not very deep, that ointments came in.. they make fantastic nug jars! very unique!
Rock hunting is cool, It is amazing all the beauty the earth can create.
Glad you had a great time...there are not many things better in this life than spending time in the wilderness and enjoying and experiencing all that it has to offer.:)