McCDig
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- Jan 31, 2015
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The dot on the map
A hunt this afternoon took me to the woods in Loch Raven Resevoir. An 1896 Bromley Atlas of Baltimore County and Google Earth gave me the GPS on a particular homesite. Temps in the upper '80s, I went out with pants tucked into socks, long-sleeved shirt and sprayed with Deep Woods Off and headed in for a 2+hour exploration. The coordinates got me to a spot where there is evidence of an old road by a dried-up stream bed and a couple possible building sites. A massive oak stands nearby; it's easily 4 feet in diameter. No coins were found today. Recovered items do confirm activity in the late 1800s to about 1930. .22 cal cartridges with 'US' and 'H' headstamps would date from 1880 - 1926 (United States Cartridge Co.), and 1890's (H-10 headstamp design for Winchester Repeating Arms), respectively. There were 5 shotgun cartridge ends recovered; these are from varying dates in a broad range covering 1896 - 1934. The big iron finds were three horseshoes, a wedge-shaped device, a carriage-type bolt, and a 3-inch diameter cog with 24 teeth which could have been part of a mill gearing. I plan over the next six weeks to visit 4 other nearby "dots on the Bromley map" and will share those finds with you. HH
A hunt this afternoon took me to the woods in Loch Raven Resevoir. An 1896 Bromley Atlas of Baltimore County and Google Earth gave me the GPS on a particular homesite. Temps in the upper '80s, I went out with pants tucked into socks, long-sleeved shirt and sprayed with Deep Woods Off and headed in for a 2+hour exploration. The coordinates got me to a spot where there is evidence of an old road by a dried-up stream bed and a couple possible building sites. A massive oak stands nearby; it's easily 4 feet in diameter. No coins were found today. Recovered items do confirm activity in the late 1800s to about 1930. .22 cal cartridges with 'US' and 'H' headstamps would date from 1880 - 1926 (United States Cartridge Co.), and 1890's (H-10 headstamp design for Winchester Repeating Arms), respectively. There were 5 shotgun cartridge ends recovered; these are from varying dates in a broad range covering 1896 - 1934. The big iron finds were three horseshoes, a wedge-shaped device, a carriage-type bolt, and a 3-inch diameter cog with 24 teeth which could have been part of a mill gearing. I plan over the next six weeks to visit 4 other nearby "dots on the Bromley map" and will share those finds with you. HH
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