- May 9, 2012
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I hit a place on a river. Seems a fire/hearth had always been a part of it and during warmer seasons it was not uncommon for someone to be camped there.
There were other places too , but the one was high ground with a view and related so well to the rivers character ect...
History is often in layers so I expected modern trash on top to sort through ,remove ect. to get to the old stuff.
Turned up a couple copper cents. And that was it! L.o.l..
That site was above/upstream of the old trap found so who knows. There could have been stuff well below what the detector could find.
Fishing below there one time a couple tons of ground gave way and crashed into the river. A few minutes after I had tiptoed across it.
Springs made it soft. And soil instability did the rest.
No , it wasn't my weight that caused it.
A site away from the water there , far enough to be out of sight of the nearest road ,and out of sight of the river, had some old bottles.
Above and below had Native mounds (on private lands) that I had read about. Below one is where the Native I knew poked around.
The collage that investigated them said no burials were involved.
Far upstream a mound was claimed to be that of a princess. I don't know if that one was ever bothered. Fine with me if it wasn't. But , science gets nosy.
The string of known history hints of thousands of years of traffic.
To look about where I've been , there's no notice of real old history. It's there though....Probably a tidbit of example exposed each spring during high water , and covered again with more rain, just plain sediment deposits , and water flow. As ever.
