Lowbatts
Gold Member
Yeah, but it's a park, not a graveyard anymore!
Yesterday's excursion into totlots o' gold was busto, a couple more heart charms and a pocket full of clad. So I went back to the schoolyard where the cemetery was from 1840 to 1940 and decided to hit the picnic corner there after traversing last year's ground work. Well the landscape spikes have done there job, they're almost all popped up, probably by kids toes stubbing them and frost heaves. Picked up about 30 of them as I went along, where they lie in wait for a kid to fall on and get impaled or stabbed in the foot.
Started working my target area and got a signal overload, not unusual as coffin handles and horseshoes both still abound there. Started pulling nails, coffin nails, hardware nails, small tacks, no wait shoe tacks. Bits of leaded material and leather material. Still getting target overload, went back in to the holes which I thought was clear ofthe nails. Out popped a cast iron elephant, maybe 3" long and 2" high, then a miniature saucer, a very old child's ring.
Still getting target overload, so back in, first scoops out were bones, more bones, large and small bones. Oh my God I'm digging up someone's child and they're funerary items. Those people that removed the graves 60+ years ago left an open kid's casket near the surface! Or so I thought.
Closer inspection of the bones revealed there were two distinct types, both were cut, sawed clean. One type large ham bones and the other, well, almost certainly bone-in pork chops.
Target overload persisted so I had to get some assurance, digging deeper and wider revealed bottle shards of old Elgin beers, zinc fruit jar lids and assorted bits of china. Once I was satisfied I found a picnic dumpsite I closed it, left the remaining target overload to a future dig and went home.
Yesterday's excursion into totlots o' gold was busto, a couple more heart charms and a pocket full of clad. So I went back to the schoolyard where the cemetery was from 1840 to 1940 and decided to hit the picnic corner there after traversing last year's ground work. Well the landscape spikes have done there job, they're almost all popped up, probably by kids toes stubbing them and frost heaves. Picked up about 30 of them as I went along, where they lie in wait for a kid to fall on and get impaled or stabbed in the foot.
Started working my target area and got a signal overload, not unusual as coffin handles and horseshoes both still abound there. Started pulling nails, coffin nails, hardware nails, small tacks, no wait shoe tacks. Bits of leaded material and leather material. Still getting target overload, went back in to the holes which I thought was clear ofthe nails. Out popped a cast iron elephant, maybe 3" long and 2" high, then a miniature saucer, a very old child's ring.
Still getting target overload, so back in, first scoops out were bones, more bones, large and small bones. Oh my God I'm digging up someone's child and they're funerary items. Those people that removed the graves 60+ years ago left an open kid's casket near the surface! Or so I thought.
Closer inspection of the bones revealed there were two distinct types, both were cut, sawed clean. One type large ham bones and the other, well, almost certainly bone-in pork chops.
Target overload persisted so I had to get some assurance, digging deeper and wider revealed bottle shards of old Elgin beers, zinc fruit jar lids and assorted bits of china. Once I was satisfied I found a picnic dumpsite I closed it, left the remaining target overload to a future dig and went home.
