A short hunt on Saturday 05/24/08

[leesumm]

A while back a friend of mine gave me permission to hunt on her property and also on her brothers property.(in writing). Yesterday with nothing to do the wife and I load up the 4 wheeler and all the gear and head up on top of a mountain here in Arkansas where we live .The lady's property is just a short distance outside the city limits here but still on a mountain. We went to an area where she said there used to be an old cabin in a clearing. All we could find were hugh boulder type rocks in a fashion that resembled a foundation . I got out the MD and almost immediately started getting hits. I dug a lot of nails. Big round heavy nails that had been the ground several years . The area didnt look to be excavated with machinery or anything. Then I got a hit and dug an old Mason jar lid, the zink on piece type that had that milk glass cover under it . The glass had been crushed and was in itty bitty pieces to small to pick up. But I did recover one piece that wasnt broken but only in half (picture posted here) . Then I hit another "something" this time it was metal , very heavy and looked like a gob of metal that had been melted and dropped on the ground . Picture posted also. I took a knife and tried to scrape it but very hard but very bright where I scraped. Then we started to find glass like gobs of things where we were digging.
Later I called the lady and asked her if she had any idea of what used to be there and told her what I found. She told me there used to be a colony of sorts there in the 1800's and thought there used to be a broom factory there then.
My question is this. If the rements had been piled up and burned, can glass melt into the gobs shown ? and have dirt, metals. etc . inside. ? And did they or not use brass back in the 1800's to where there might have been some reason for a gob of brass to have been on the ground ?
The way the pics uploaded , the first is the collection found , the second is one piece of what looks like melted glass, the third is the metal piece I think to be brass.

[Buster]

Coo; finds Leesumm..I would think that they ether had a fire or burned the trash outright..Might be more around the area..I would still hunt it again...Buster...

[leesumm]

I might add that this area where we were is about a 25 to 30 acre clearing in the woods. There are some big rocks placed in a fashion to resemble a foundation of some building but they arent cemented together or any way connected. Its strange the way they are . And where we found the items posted was only about a 100 sq. foot area there

[homefire]

Yep! Never know what the had up there! The rocks you refer to probably was foundation. Just enough to get the wooden floors up off the ground!


Hit it Again!

[EBCIII]

Very interesting finds! The melted glas and brass? I am not sure on that a fire does wierd things to objects. Good hunting, Beale.