Question: What if this is not affordable?
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From: "Al Tonetti" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: MI Pioneer cabin site
> Ditch the STPs for a gradiometer survey at the two loci. For e.g., see
> http://www.ovacltd.com/Geophys_Scofield.shtml.
>
> Al Tonetti
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marty
> Pickands
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: MI Pioneer cabin site
>
> Hello, Kris-
>
> I have no experience on settler's cabins in Michigan, only in upstate New
> York. However, as you are probably aware, many New Yorkers moved on to
> settle in Michigan. The sites I have seen or worked on dated to the early
> 19th c. In each case they were located on the highest spot in the area, or
> the edge of a drop off, for drainage. Each was surrounded by a thin sheet
> refuse deposit with very little glass or metal. The structure was
> represented by a fieldstone footing only two or thee courses deep with a
> pit
> cellar 4-5 feet deep in the middle. These were storage spaces under a
> wooden
> floor. Of course, not all cabins had those, but only dirt floors. All were
> next to a road, and many had been replaced by a more formal house nearby.
>
> There was very little metal. Often these cabins, in our area, had bark or
> plank roofs held in place by poles and stones. Most were built by
> immigrants
> from New England after the revolution. One exception was a Prussian
> traditional two-room log house with a formal stone footing, that was later
> was moved to a full foundation with a stone-floored cellar and acquired
> clapboard siding, plastered walls and a frame addition, as often happened.
> A
> number of these in New York and Pennsylvania are still not only standing
> but
> lived in- the owners sometimes unaware that they are living in a log
> house.
> These houses were different from "settler's cabins" even when built by
> settlers, in that they were built to be permanent. Settler's cabins were
> meant to be temporary shelters.
>
> I'd bet on the rise as the house site. The brick is a good sign. The metal
> detector would probably not show anything there except an occasional
> button
> or dropped personal item. The other location may be a shed or small barn
> related to it. You might try close interval STPs on that area and the one
> where you had the metal hits. Alternatively narrow slit trenches can be
> dug
> with minimal effort into the subsoil to detect soil discolorations that
> STPs
> may miss. They cover more area and do not take a lot more time than close
> interval STPs.
>
> Marty Pickands
> New York State Museum
>>>> Kris Oswald 11/21/11 7:47 AM >>>
> Morning to all
>
>
> I have just begun site testing(stp work) of a Pioneer cabin site in
> Michigan and have a couple questions if I may, the wheat field that it
> is located in is approx 80 acre's and has not been dragged/ plowed or
> tilled in many years and the wheat for winter is resting a foot high. A
> metal detector survey of the site was done a couple of years back with
> some good results but conflicts with the Families story on where the
> cabin was located.I have brick fragments on the highest elevation as
> well at the lower section closest to original road bed where most of the
> personal artifacts have been recovered. I am looking for any resource
> materials on Michigan Pioneer Cabin Excavation. the concentration
> level's of material from the STP's are light at best, is it possible
> that the only remains of the site are articulated across the field?. I
> feel that until the soil has been turned to expose more surface
> artifact my STP work will take forever. Any thoughts on this? I value
> your opinions
> P.S. not sure when the field will be worked again
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Kris Oswald
> Linden Mi
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