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« on: June 08, 2011, 10:19:45 am »
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Well here is Today's finds, After two hours in the Florida sun with no shade this is what we pulled.
Hope everyone is having a great day finding things.
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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2011, 10:25:19 am »
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Lou are you finding any bottles are pottery along the tracks?

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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2011, 10:52:21 am »
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We have found a lot of smashed bottles but no pottery, why do you ask?

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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2011, 11:01:29 am »
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We have found a lot of smashed bottles but no pottery, why do you ask?



Bottles and pottery are the best way to date a site plus it will give you an idea of what took place there. Whiskey bottles and food bottles may indicate a camping area or rest stop. Pottery and china may indicate a long term stop with buildings maybe for meals water etc. We talk a lot about digging junk and trash but if read right that trash can tell us lots about the area.   

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Thank you very much i did not think of that. You get so caught up in finding things sometimes you forget the simple one's.I hit a spot on this find Friday and we pulled up a bunch of cans, i think i hit there camp all the cans were empty and tore up pretty good. The only way i have been able to date anything so far, is by the narrow gauge track and the Kilby  items I have dug up so far. The Kilby journal covers I found last week were from 1889 and off of a Kilby Lumber car so I bought a CD with the original Kilby catalog on it and that has been a great help in identifying train parts., i have sent you a picture of one of them. i have dug four so far. Thank you for your advise it means a lot to me.
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Thank you very much i did not think of that. You get so caught up in finding things sometimes you forget the simple one's.I hit a spot on this find Friday and we pulled up a bunch of cans, i think i hit there camp all the cans were empty and tore up pretty good. The only way i have been able to date anything so far, is by the narrow gauge track and the Kilby  items I have dug up so far. The Kilby journal covers I found last week were from 1889 and off of a Kilby Lumber car so I bought a CD with the original Kilby catalog on it and that has been a great help in identifying train parts., i have sent you a picture of one of them. i have dug four so far. Thank you for your advise it means a lot to me.
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Captnbad, excuse my ignorance about train parts but, what are Kilby items? By the way, nice track spikes.

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« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2011, 03:26:00 pm »
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Kilby was a train car manufacture back in the late 1800s.He built Lumber cars and all kind of train cars and even some train engines I just found out myself when i started digging up the train parts.Most of what i am finding on this trail are Kilby Parts from either broken lumber cars or blown train engines all back in the 1800's.It has been a real high ride for me so far and each day I go out it gets better and better, Those spikes came out clean,looks like  they drooped them out of a keg. I have dug up about 400 spikes in the last three months from 2.5" 3.50" and 4.50"in length.

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« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2011, 03:42:30 pm »
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Nice finds, enjoy the sun Cheesy

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« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2011, 03:46:47 pm »
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Thank you, the sun is why I moved from Pa to Fl,just wasn't planning on digging in it every day.

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Those spikes came out clean,looks like  they drooped them out of a keg. I have dug up about 400 spikes in the last three months from 2.5" 3.50" and 4.50"in length.


Thanks for the info. I looked at track spikes online and found a site selling them as refrigerator magnets. Cool!  Cool

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