History Found In the Field

[TheGrayRider]

Evening hunt today at the 1800s pioneer homestead in Hamilton County, Indiana. Found four horseshoes, small brass buckle, and an old axe head.

 

[JV842]

Took the grandkids walking around up to my moms pasture n found these, not too bad for less than an hour

 

[TheGrayRider]

Found modern aluminum, round horseshoe in barrel racing arena at local county fairgrounds.

Aluminum horseshoes are lighter than steel horseshoes and better for quarter horses to maintain speed and agility. Never saw a round horseshoe before today.

 

[antlerradar]

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Took the grandkids walking around up to my moms pasture n found these, not too bad for less than an hour

I am happy I don't have to quarter an elk with that hand ax.

 

[Simeod]

On top of the Vermillion cliffs on the Arizona Strip. About halfway between the Wave and White Pockets.

 

[Huntnut60]

My great grandmother found this near Mason Tx in the 1930s.

 

[RealMuddyboots]

I stopped to eat lunch high up in a Catskill mtn at an old homestead stone foundation. Nothing left except for the stone. I took some time to root around and found some rusty whatever and then I moved a rock in foundation that looked oddly placed. Found an old cast iron nut cracker that was lever action and was in decent shape. The wood base was rotting and fell off when I picked it up. I brought it home, cleaned it up, mounted it on oak and gave to wife. She loves it and it still cracks walnuts like a champ!!! I have no idea how old it us and never found another one on line as photo etc. That foundation had to be mid 1800's to maybe 1900.

 

[zach_destroys]

I stopped to eat lunch high up in a Catskill mtn at an old homestead stone foundation. Nothing left except for the stone. I took some time to root around and found some rusty whatever and then I moved a rock in foundation that looked oddly placed. Found an old cast iron nut cracker that was lever action and was in decent shape. The wood base was rotting and fell off when I picked it up. I brought it home, cleaned it up, mounted it on oak and gave to wife. She loves it and it still cracks walnuts like a champ!!! I have no idea how old it us and never found another one on line as photo etc. That foundation had to be mid 1800's to maybe 1900.

Got any pictures of it?

 

[OntarioHunter]

Hunting the federal refuge today something shiny caught my eye. The manager has been allowing excessive grazing the last two years and cattle chewing this section of the refuge to dirt revealed this tombstone. It made me cry. Shortly afterwards I finished my daily limit and thought I'd give old T-Bone a whiff of roosters. He died two years before I was born. A couple of years back I stumbled on another hunting dog memorial hidden in the tulies at the other end of this refuge. Much more contemporary as I recall.

 

[Scott85]

Pretty cool date on this.

I think I would be history if I messed with this.

 

[TheGrayRider]

Took these photographs in South Dakota while on a hunt, near the Grand River, no roads to this historic monument and location. Hopefully, you can enlarge and read the monument.



Sitting Bull monument at the same location.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Came across this yesterday deer hunting, pulled off the highway and wanted to hike just a little bit and check out this draw that caught my curiosity and this was the bonus for my short hike, wonder how old it is and what’s the backstory

 

[Dsnow9]

 

[Flatbrimmer]

I have seen a few posts not just here of people moving grave markers, way points and I had corner markers on my gold claims removed. None of that is cool or funny at all to put it bluntly. I really hope people are just joking and not disturbing real markers as they are there for a reason and should never be moved except by the person who put them there.

Gold claims, you say?

 

[WyoDoug]

Gold claims, you say?

I do have placer claims yes and people keep knocking down or moving the markers we are required to put up before filing our claims.

 

[shrapnel]

 

[gouch]

I found this a couple of days ago. Old Marble knife with a staghorn handle. Looks like it had a lot of use and sharpened many times. My dad had one just like it only with the leather handle. They were some good old knives

 

[ImBillT]

One sphere still encapsulated in stone, the other has had the stone around it dissolve leaving the entire sphere sitting loose. There were actually more of these than I could count but I only took one picture. Not exactly history but kinda cool.

Also a grain mill in a cave, and another outside the cave.

Lastly a rock overhang, where I couldn’t tell you if some folks carved some shelves or if nature did it. Seemed like a place someone probably got out of the rain.

 

[ImBillT]

Old cabin.

 

[Sheltowee]

Ruins of an old homesteader farmhouse that I camped next to one night and a Works Progress Administration building dated 1938 in SE Colorado. I'm guessing the WPA building is a bunkhouse for WPA workers. Anyone have any ideas?