Oddities found while hunting

[undeg01]

What things have you found while traipsing around the woods that made you scratch your head and wonder what the story was behind it?

For example, I found a pair of old gold, wire frame glasses sitting on a rock. I mean real gold, and real old. Always wondered who the person was that took them off and laid them there, and just how long ago that happened. It was over 20 years ago when I found them.

Today I came upon this hole. It’s not perfectly round and doesn’t appear to have been bored. There is no power line nearby, nor any oil/gas wells. There are no signs of an old homestead and even if there were, I cannot imagine old settlers chiseling their way through rock when there are plenty of other areas nearby that are sandy and easy digging. Maybe used as a cache for something? What do you think?

 

[dlbleak]

No clue but that pretty cool. Old geiser hole?

 

[bigred1]

Bad place to put an outhouse...

 

[undeg01]

If I can get my hands on a metal detector, I think I’ll check it out. Never know… might find Jessie James’ gold.

 

[RickN]

I would like to see the bottom without all the leaf litter and loose dirt. Might be an ancient footprint or something.

 

[undeg01]

Here is another one. This was carved in an aspen right where I shot my elk back in 2013, just east of Pagosa Springs. Maybe ol’ Pete shot one in that same spot back in 1874.

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[swampratt]

At Eufaula I seen a hole 3X that diameter that a guy and his wife dug for a well.
Hand dug with hand tools. Flagstone soil for the most part.
Had it about 12-15 feet deep and was hitting some ground water.
Living in a small cabin 8x12 storage shed with No power or water ran to it.
Super happy couple with 1 kid.

OFF GRID.

 

[undeg01]

I would like to see the bottom without all the leaf litter and loose dirt. Might be an ancient footprint or something.

I will be investigating sometime over the winter. I’ll dig down some distance to see what I find.

 

[RickN]

Here is another one. This was carved in an aspen right where I shot my elk back in 2013, just east of Pagosa Springs. Maybe ol’ Pete shot one in that same spot back in 1874.


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Or old Pete is buried under it.

 

[KurtM]

Found a horse, nice rifle, and jacket once. They came as a package deal, and even had lunch in the saddle bags and a set of hobbles. Latter that evening found a hiker that was hungry and strangely was looking for a horse, a rifle, and lunch.