Metal Detecting - 1800's Swimming hole

This dig took place around a 1700 and 1800's swimming hole, where even the families of the elite involved in the town's business and political affairs would frequent .
On any given 90 degree plus summer day, people would come here to cool down from the sometimes dangerous effects of the heat .
They would come in winter as well, to enjoy their probably newly discovered sport of ice skating .... The surrounding shoreline is now covered in dense brush, trees and thorn bushes, which is a good indication that the ground and it's 1800's contents is generally undisturbed, and was spared the hand of progress which usually wipes an area clean of all historical artifacts .
There is also an adjacent wooded area along side this water hole, which was the home site of one of the town's first settlers, where in a later generation, the home style mansion was converted into the local poor house for the less fortunate within the community.
All in all, the ground has been undisturbed .... how many metal detectors have hit this place over the years, I don't know .... but never have I come to a site, where nothing is left in the ground, because other metal detectors have been there before .... there's always something there .

Thanks for watchin, and good luck on your next hunt .

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