Posted: 12/8/2008 7:25:00 PM EDT
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Pretty cool. From the rifle rack on the front porch, the feathers, armadillo and the shirt tails hanging on hooks, I am willing to bet it was most recently used as a hunting cabin. That's what I was thinking. Something cool about going through old abandoned places like that. Makes you wonder about the lives that happened there. |
| I was on an archaeological dig, checking the area out before they plop a quarry down on top of it. It was definitely used as a hunting cabin, judging by the spent .22 and 30-30 casings and shotgun hulls we found, as well as a tree stump in the yard that had clearly been hit with bird shot (and the rifle rack). There was a medicine cabinet in the kitchen area with ibuprofen and tylenol cold, both expiring in June of '98, so that should help narrow down when it was last used. However, I have no idea what the shirt tails mean. I had guessed they were trophies taken from poachers found on the land, but that might be a stretch. Any ideas? |
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I was on an archaeological dig, checking the area out before they plop a quarry down on top of it. It was definitely used as a hunting cabin, judging by the spent .22 and 30-30 casings and shotgun hulls we found, as well as a tree stump in the yard that had clearly been hit with bird shot (and the rifle rack). There was a medicine cabinet in the kitchen area with ibuprofen and tylenol cold, both expiring in June of '98, so that should help narrow down when it was last used. However, I have no idea what the shirt tails mean. I had guessed they were trophies taken from poachers found on the land, but that might be a stretch. Any ideas? Whoever misses a deer gets their shirt tails cut off and hung up when they get back to camp. 
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I was on an archaeological dig, checking the area out before they plop a quarry down on top of it. It was definitely used as a hunting cabin, judging by the spent .22 and 30-30 casings and shotgun hulls we found, as well as a tree stump in the yard that had clearly been hit with bird shot (and the rifle rack). There was a medicine cabinet in the kitchen area with ibuprofen and tylenol cold, both expiring in June of '98, so that should help narrow down when it was last used. However, I have no idea what the shirt tails mean. I had guessed they were trophies taken from poachers found on the land, but that might be a stretch. Any ideas? The turkey fans also give it away I'd imagine the shirt tails are part of some solemn ceremony performed by the hunters, likely the old "drink a fifth of Beam and rip the new guy's shirt tail off" type thing. You know, the way you carve notches in your bed post? |
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I was on an archaeological dig, checking the area out before they plop a quarry down on top of it. It was definitely used as a hunting cabin, judging by the spent .22 and 30-30 casings and shotgun hulls we found, as well as a tree stump in the yard that had clearly been hit with bird shot (and the rifle rack). There was a medicine cabinet in the kitchen area with ibuprofen and tylenol cold, both expiring in June of '98, so that should help narrow down when it was last used. However, I have no idea what the shirt tails mean. I had guessed they were trophies taken from poachers found on the land, but that might be a stretch. Any ideas? The turkey fans also give it away I'd imagine the shirt tails are part of some solemn ceremony performed by the hunters, likely the old "drink a fifth of Beam and rip the new guy's shirt tail off" type thing. You know, the way you carve notches in your bed post? Seriously, the shirt tail thing is an old hunting camp tradition. Whoever misses a deer gets their coat tail cut off. |
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Here's the cabin we were digging around, inside and out. It's thought to have been built between 1790 and 1820, with a later cinder block kitchen added at some point. The flash makes it look a lot cheerier than it was: Enjoy! the age may be off a bit, the balloon frame housing design was developed in the 1830s |
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I was on an archaeological dig, checking the area out before they plop a quarry down on top of it. It was definitely used as a hunting cabin, judging by the spent .22 and 30-30 casings and shotgun hulls we found, as well as a tree stump in the yard that had clearly been hit with bird shot (and the rifle rack). There was a medicine cabinet in the kitchen area with ibuprofen and tylenol cold, both expiring in June of '98, so that should help narrow down when it was last used. However, I have no idea what the shirt tails mean. I had guessed they were trophies taken from poachers found on the land, but that might be a stretch. Any ideas? The turkey fans also give it away I'd imagine the shirt tails are part of some solemn ceremony performed by the hunters, likely the old "drink a fifth of Beam and rip the new guy's shirt tail off" type thing. You know, the way you carve notches in your bed post? Seriously, the shirt tail thing is an old hunting camp tradition. Whoever misses a deer gets their coat tail cut off. That's always been a tradition here. |
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those places are great to hunt with a metal detector You probably wouldn't find anything too cool with that. Just some spent casings and old rusty nails and chunks of iron. There was no Civil War activity around here, so their wouldn't be anything of that nature. Most of what we found consisted of nails, hunks of iron (too badly deteriorated to figure out what they were from), small pieces of broken ceramic, and small pieces of broken glass. I think there were a few brick crumbs found as well. |
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Yes, that was a wooden door on a bomb shelter 
The bomb shelter was for protection from the fallout, not the blast. The ninety degree turn inside the door would block the gamma rays which travel in straight lines. The door was only to keep out air borne particles. Anybody buy that? 
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