>OP, how far (OLD) does your property go back?
I now live in N.E., OH, property was a large farm that was sold and split into individual parcels in 1870.
Is a mound in the back half, probably an old privy pit, have got bottles back to 1860's or so.
Lot of old beer and booze bottles that trace back to 1870's according to old brewers records from around here.
Friend contacted YSU, Archeology Professor brought his students out for a 2 day dig last summer.
He said it is the most artifacts he ever found in one place in the state.
Will be a few years of cleaning and cataloguing before we get the report.
Was cool how they mapped off the dig area, slowly and gently dug, sifted, all areas were staked out with huge nails and string, just like a History Channel Show.
Did make the local news.
ETA-They barely went deeper than 1 foot, area maybe 8x10 feet, he said they barely scratched the surface and he can't wait to come back again. The hump is WAY bigger than that.