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[AstroRaider]

Tink:

Often, good sites for looking for meteorites coincide with good places to look for dinosaur remains.

This remote area of Arizona is littered with dinosaur remains. Parts of it have been "uncovered" in the last few years and there is a small tourist spot nearby. However, if you trek into further (remote) regions, you go into areas where no one goes (or seems to care). This area is Navaho land. I worked a deal with them that let me (and my party) go on a long distance "hike".

I have found several websites that briefly mention the tourist part and I have seen photos (very similar to mine). There are incredible finds there, and there is at least one university dig going on (dinosaur eggs that still have embryos inside), but in the remote areas are still really interesting things.

This area used to be a marshy area. When the comet struck the earth, this place became a moment frozen in time. Since then, the area has risen from tectonics and now it is exposed (at a fairly high elevation). All remains are encased in stone so it is difficult to expose full skeletons. In my photo above, it is deceiving... the bones are in stone, but sand has drifted around them which makes it look like they are in soft sand (and easy to get out). This is never the case.

Yes, I have artifacts, but we only took items that were apart (loose) from skeletons. These items include bone fragments, skin fossils and coprolite (dinosaur droppings). The coprolite is a telling factor... there are small ones and REALLY big ones which tells you something. A few of my photographs will tell you a lot. Actually, I prefer to photograph such things than take them away.

Tink, send me your e-mail address and I will send you several photos of the area. Since you have a strong interest in things like this, some of the photos will blow your mind. Especially the dinosaur footprints (which have been identified) and the shot where my wife and daughter (and our Navaho guide) are standing on a huge mound that is obviously a huge raptor.

I will send you the photos one at a time, since they are 2 to 4 megs each.

[tinytinkerbell]

I am absolutely in awe! When I bought my historical home, build in 1860, I learned an abundant amount of history about it. One of the things I learned was that the house was confiscated and used as a meeting place for Union leaders during the Civil War. Soliders would lay about the property in various spots. After purchasing a metal detector I sat on the front steps and thought ... "If I were a solider, wrapped in a hot/heavy uniform, dying of a heat stroke (lol) *no a/c* where would I sit". Then I walked approx. 200 feet towards a huge tree with a stone so big a dump truck couldn't move it. I turned the detector on... bam .. Indian heads all over the place.. jack pot! rough condition, but still. Then I was like "addicted" I started detecting all over the place!.. There were rocks of some sort, all broken up but kept making the detector go crazy. I went online to explore the possibilities.. From what I learned, meteor rocks will make a detector go off.. I was puzzled, but couldn't identify what I had so that kind of went to the way side as I was having the privy dug. The house was owned by a very wealthy family so I knew nice things would turn up and LOTS AND LOTS of interesting things did pop up! Unbelievable things. Anyway, some really old bones, at least 100 years old were in there also. My daughter was so excited about the bones. We cleaned them together and she still has them. lol.. anyway, I told her we'll go on a real dig one day together and she's all for it..

I can't wait to see the pictures..

[wolfkill]

did you find any union uniform button???

[tinytinkerbell]

did you find any union uniform button???

yes I did and a belt buckle..Arrow heads, clay marbles, victorian dolls, ink bottles.. you name it!

[tinytinkerbell]

my house in the 1800's:





now:


this little window I can not find it from the inside the house.. the house has 4 attics.. I've only been in 3


the house, of course needs updating but with any old historic it takes time and $$$$$

[jfines69]

Maybe that house was part of the under ground rail road and the window is a hidden room... Time to break out the tape measure!!!

[tinytinkerbell]

I have crawled around EVERYWHERE and can not find that window from the inside.. It had me so frazzled! If I were 30 foot tall I'd just walk up to the window! lol..

[BadThad]

I have crawled around EVERYWHERE and can not find that window from the inside.. It had me so frazzled! If I were 30 foot tall I'd just walk up to the window! lol..

Very neat house! I would cut out the ceiling and put in an access port if it was my house.

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[tinytinkerbell]

Very neat house! I would cut out the ceiling and put in an access port if it was my house.

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If I were brave enough to cut on it, I would.. lol
Thank you! I didn't know that.. I will go remove it now..

[wolfkill]

wow nice looking house!!! they look like some home i grew up as akid. you find any thing good in the house???

[tinytinkerbell]

wow nice looking house!!! they look like some home i grew up as akid. you find any thing good in the house???

yes.. Everything I found valuable was dug up. Nothing was left inside the house except the original Chandeliers and gas hanging lights which were converted to electric... although the seller, after I bought the house, removed 3 of the most beautiful ones I ever seen.. I WAS SUPER FLY mad lol

[hasfam]

Beautiful House. And what fun you must have had metal detecting the property and finding all those hidden away treasures. Sounds like it was never touched or searched before you, which is very rare. I metal detected for about 25 years. lots of old homes and farms and loved the 'strategy" of it. Trying to discern where things were 100-150 years ago. The garden, the clothesline, the dump, the play area....all key places for a family to lose or bury things. Thanks for sharing the pics. I really enjoyed looking at them.

[liveandievarieties]

Don't forget finding where the outhouse used to be located Rock. I helped my brother-in-law dig up his sewer line all day, on the way we found the 5 or so feet of buried garbage, bottles and turn of the century relics. Even found a couple of Indian cents, no visible dates.

When I was a kid and did metal detecting, someone told me that old outhouse spots were one of the best places to start. Any truth to that?

Your story was waaayy cool Tink! Gave me a lot of perspective. Our home was built in the early 30s. Every time I dig up a new flowerbed and unearth buried junk from 70+ years ago, it's like a time capsule. Not always exciting, but insightful.