cammobunker
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So they dug out a street in the part of town that's been around since pre-civil war days.
So I thought, ok, good stuff, bound to be some stuff there eh?
Sunday AM...I'm not feeling so great, tired and just pretty run down. But, I need to go hit this street. I load up and get there around 10ish. It's only low 70s, nice day, slight breeze. I find they have scooped one end of the block down a good 7-8 FEET deep.....we are down to the last Ice Age now, no point looking there, although I did for a bit. The other end only has the blacktop off now so should be good for some finds.
Or not.
Seems the street had the pavement laid over the the last street material from around 1900 or so I think. They just dumped about 6 inches of road base down and poured.
Oh, the road before paving? It's brick. Yeah, fricking brick about 2-3 inches after they tore off the blacktop. This isn't your wimpy, hollow, modern brick like decorates the outside of those McMansions down the road. No, brothers and sisters, this is brick. The kind of brick that just laughs at your efforts to dislodge it. This is brick that my US Army 1945 dated e-tool just glances off of without leaving a mark.
After an hour I was a near-heat case. The combination of little wind, no shade (east-west street) and the reflection from the white rock road base defeated me. And that brick! I curse the brick! I hate the brick!
Now I've got to find where they took all the dirt from the street!
So I thought, ok, good stuff, bound to be some stuff there eh?
Sunday AM...I'm not feeling so great, tired and just pretty run down. But, I need to go hit this street. I load up and get there around 10ish. It's only low 70s, nice day, slight breeze. I find they have scooped one end of the block down a good 7-8 FEET deep.....we are down to the last Ice Age now, no point looking there, although I did for a bit. The other end only has the blacktop off now so should be good for some finds.
Or not.
Seems the street had the pavement laid over the the last street material from around 1900 or so I think. They just dumped about 6 inches of road base down and poured.
Oh, the road before paving? It's brick. Yeah, fricking brick about 2-3 inches after they tore off the blacktop. This isn't your wimpy, hollow, modern brick like decorates the outside of those McMansions down the road. No, brothers and sisters, this is brick. The kind of brick that just laughs at your efforts to dislodge it. This is brick that my US Army 1945 dated e-tool just glances off of without leaving a mark.
After an hour I was a near-heat case. The combination of little wind, no shade (east-west street) and the reflection from the white rock road base defeated me. And that brick! I curse the brick! I hate the brick!
Now I've got to find where they took all the dirt from the street!