Falon Laur
The forest beyond where we were digging in BcGn-15 is full of features. Not hidden in the dirt but just sitting on the surface (sometimes even up in a tree). On May 12 four of us students spent the day wandering around the forest marking the location of everything we found. With the GPS recordings these will be mapped. This is in order to get a better picture of where things are located in relation to each other, and where is a possible place to dig in a future season.
Here are some of the things found in the forest:
Half a car seat
Some kind of wooden post still hung in a tree. This could possibly be a post for hunting
Concrete
Rocks
A car
No, seriously ROCKS
Usually rocks in a forest is not that interesting. I mean it’s a rock being a rock in the place where rocks tend to be, that’s sounds oh so very dull. But when rocks are clustered together tightly – especially if its in any kind of formation- that is not dull and worth noting down.
An example of this was found in OA5 where our unit had a bunch of rocks clustered together on one side and seemed to form a straight edge. The straight edge means this cluster of rocks looks to be intentionally built for a purpose.
Two rusty barrels with more visible not too far from where these barrels are.
Bones! These bones appear to be cow bones.
What appears to be a bed frame. Its covered in vegetation so it was hard to see. There was a small spring connecting two slats (slats being the metal that supports a mattress) . I only saw two springs so I can’t tell how many springs this frame originally did have. The springs lead me to think I’m correct in assuming it is a bed frame.
However, this is an unusual bed frame. The slats are very long and go parallel to the side/length of the bed. Metal bed frames seem to usually go with bed slats parallel to the short end of the bed. This is opposite to the bed frame found in the forest. From doing some quick google searching “metal frames 1900” I only found one example of slats going in this direction. It was an eBay listing that claimed their metal bed was dated 1900-1950. This is -of course- not the best source. Other than that I could not find anything else on a bed frame like this.
A wall? Not too far from where I found one of the bed frame was a pile of very large rocks. This pile seemed to continue for several feet in a line. I didn’t have a measuring tape, so I guessed at 10 feet based on how many steps it took to go the length of it.
This is not a complete list of what we found and there is still parts of the forest we didn’t manage to get to. So there’s probably still more. Overall, wandering the woods and coming across something someone else left, however many years earlier, is fun. Hopefully, what we found can be of use to people digging at this site in future seasons.
Oh! There was also this doll head. I don’t have much to say about it other than the holes in its neck means it probably had a fabric body.
I just want to show it off cause it creeps people out. Sure hope its not cursed!
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