Cache From 1610 Found!

[+TEAM 360]

CACHE FROM 1610

[+Jhwk]

Classic! I think his spouse threw it in.

[+edscott]

Classic! I think his spouse threw it in.

 

That's a real "Cold Case File"....

[+Davispak]

Again, another example of people taking the good stuff and leaving trash behind. Even then you had people who didn't trade up.

[+BadAndy]

My ancestry is traced back to Jamestowne...I wonder if those are some of my family heirlooms?

[+briansnat]

Old wells and privys are geat places for finds like this. I remember digging deep in the privy of an early 1700's farmhouse and finding little baseball sized clusters of berry seeds throughout it. At first I thought, what the heck are these berry seeds doing 10 feet underground? Then it hit me. Yuk!

 

We found numerous chamber pots in there. I guess the owner would accidently drop them in while dumping the contents, then say "I be darned if I'm going in after that!".

 

Left a nice cache for us though.

Edited July 27, 2006 by briansnat

[+edscott]

Old wells and privys are geat places for finds like this. I remember digging deep in the privy of an early 1700's farmhouse and finding little baseball sized clusters of berry seeds throughout it. At first I thought, what the heck are these berry seeds doing 10 feet underground? Then it hit me. Yuk!

 

We found numerous chamber pots in there. I guess the owner would accidently drop them in while dumping the contents, then say "I be darned if I'm going in after that!".

 

Left a nice cache for us though.

 

My father had a nice coin collection. It all started when he was a kid around 1920 and was sent out to tip the privy and clean out the hole. At the bottom of the pile he discovered a bunch of old coins.. early 1800s. that was the beginning of his collection.

[+ElectricBird]

 

My father had a nice coin collection. It all started when he was a kid around 1920 and was sent out to tip the privy and clean out the hole. At the bottom of the pile he discovered a bunch of old coins.. early 1800s. that was the beginning of his collection.

 

So how exactly did these coins wind up in a privy?

[+edscott]

 

My father had a nice coin collection. It all started when he was a kid around 1920 and was sent out to tip the privy and clean out the hole. At the bottom of the pile he discovered a bunch of old coins.. early 1800s. that was the beginning of his collection.

 

So how exactly did these coins wind up in a privy?

 

Our guess is that someone sat down in a hurry without checking his pockets, or maybe had an accident out in the barn and took the pants to the privy to shake them out.

Edited July 30, 2006 by edscott