Question on well/privy?

Pulltabby said:

Hi, while walking in the forest today looking for bottles with my pet gsd, found a well? or something filled with water a foot away from top and deep.

It has a small square opening 30"x30". All 4 sides are perfectly cut. No signs of wood,stones. The 4 sides look like clay/dirt nothing else.

I put a 9 foot branch in it, no bottom reached. Is this a well? how did they make the walls so even and square? I'm going back and try a magnet.

It was a real death trap , I left some branches over it. Btw found a few more bottles.. it is very near the bottle dump that I found last week.

Thanks for any info.

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cellrdwellr said:

Ive run into many at old homesites, you did a wise thing by putting large branches over it. Many things fall into those and don't come back. Im gunna guess it was a well, not a privy. Although ill bet there's still metal objects down there. Keep us posted! Good luck!

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DiggerMD said:

Could be clay pipe.

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stinger said:

stay away from the b!t!h

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Mud-puppy said:

Coooool! Yes go back in there serious! Take a heavy magnet, also, fabricate up a 'trash grapple hook' out of some stiff but bendable heavy wire, maybe even a good weight like a cast iron sash weight to plumb the depth.......Then start in working! pull up all the branches, skeletons of raccoons and whatnot that fell in there over the years, then lower in that magnet and fish around....Depending on the depth, you might be able to rig up some sort of pole with a scoop on the end for the non-metallic metals at the bottom! Take pics and report back or we will send out a search party!

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Gauntlet said:

Dip a cup and take a swaller. Won't take long to tell a well from a privy

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