Indian mounds on the Hooch off Milton Parkway
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Unusual finds while digging/working on job sites
- Thread starter Kman
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Found this muzzle loader in a house that was built in the 1950’s while i was living in Mooresville NC. The brass on the buttstock was sticking out of the insulation. Curiosity got the best of me and i carefully pulled it out and realised i had an awesome score
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Now that’s f’n awesome.
when I was about 14 My dad took me deer hunting in Early county on some land owned by a relative, He sat me down on a creek bank beside a huge old oak tree, after an hour or so of sitting there I got bored and decided that the next tree about 20 feet away would be a better place to sit as it was more in the shade than where I was at. As I sat down at My new spot there was a round rock a few inches around sticking up and I tried to dig it up to remove it, well the dang thing wouldnt budge, I kept digging and found that this rock was attached to a larger rounded rock, I dug some more and it still wouldnt budge, when My dad showed up a half hour later I had dug about 6 inches of dirt up around the thing trying to get it to move . He looked at it and told me that it wasnt a rock but some thing metal . We went back to camp and returned with My uncle and some shovels and dug that thing up, It ended up being a 3' long and 6" round old cannon!!!. it was heavy as heck and took us a while to drag it out of the woods. We took it home and showed to to a guy My dad knew who worked at Ga state and was involved with the cyclorama in atlanta, He took it in and it was Identified as a wrought iron "mountain rifle" made in Mobile alabama and used by the confederate army through out the south. My dad convinced me to donate it to the museum at the Cyclorama . to this day I regret that decision
Finally got answers to the clothing and bones. It turned out to be animal bones!! I guess it’s not a bad thing that no one was murdered!!!! The upside is we got to see some cool finds from some of our ODT members. The police that showed up were convinced it was human, but I guess we need to leave that determination to the scientists!
https://patch.com/georgia/alpharetta/bones-found-near-alpharetta-city-hall-deemed-animal-police
https://patch.com/georgia/alpharetta/bones-found-near-alpharetta-city-hall-deemed-animal-police
this,when we were having our house built,found lots of arrowheads as well,some small pottery fragments also
all the research i did on it tells me its an 11mm belgian pinfire,it was in bad shape and i was surprised the grips were still intact,not sure if they are original.
all the research i did on it tells me its an 11mm belgian pinfire,it was in bad shape and i was surprised the grips were still intact,not sure if they are original.
Back in the very early 1960s we lived in East Atlanta.
They were building I-20 from Downtown out to about Maynard Terrace.
The ROW went through some major civil war battlegrounds.
After any big rain you could walk along the road bed and pick up handfulls of mini-balls.
We would take pocketfuls to school and throw them at each other during recess.
Pretty much every boy in the 6 and 7 grades had a cigar box of mini-balls. Every now and then someone would find a "real artifact" like a belt buckle, ususually in really bad shape.
No telling what serious research would have found, but back then people would have thought you were insane for stopping "progress" (the interstate) for some Civil War stuff, which was pretty much everwhere.
They were building I-20 from Downtown out to about Maynard Terrace.
The ROW went through some major civil war battlegrounds.
After any big rain you could walk along the road bed and pick up handfulls of mini-balls.
We would take pocketfuls to school and throw them at each other during recess.
Pretty much every boy in the 6 and 7 grades had a cigar box of mini-balls. Every now and then someone would find a "real artifact" like a belt buckle, ususually in really bad shape.
No telling what serious research would have found, but back then people would have thought you were insane for stopping "progress" (the interstate) for some Civil War stuff, which was pretty much everwhere.
