dlax
Elite Member
I can't seem to find much online about this. I have permission to hunt my neighbors property and I really want to get an idea of the old layout so I'm not wandering aimlessly. I'm trying to recreate in my mind where the homes, outbuildings, etc would have been.
At one entrance to an old stone wall enclosure there is a LOT of black wood char in the soil when I dig, clearly someone was regularly dumping fire ashes there for quite a while. If they were from late 1800s or even earlier, would they have already been decomposed by now? If it is old and related to the dwelling, where would people dump ashes in relation to their stoves/fireplaces.
Thanks for any insight or references to check out!
At one entrance to an old stone wall enclosure there is a LOT of black wood char in the soil when I dig, clearly someone was regularly dumping fire ashes there for quite a while. If they were from late 1800s or even earlier, would they have already been decomposed by now? If it is old and related to the dwelling, where would people dump ashes in relation to their stoves/fireplaces.
Thanks for any insight or references to check out!