*Carol *
Were there any smashed coins found as that's the usual objects people put
on the rail heads to have smashed?


*Andy JacksonBellflower CA*

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Carol Serr <
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> We found one of those...I think in the U. S. Grant Jr. summer home dump
> site (but cant trust my memory). THANKS for the ID!  But How does one
> easily SEE thru those grooves/lines?  Guess it wasn't super accurate.
>
>
> The summer home was near a rail spur (Aloha Sta)...so near a rail line.
> Also among the items were 2 Totally smashed shell casings!  Finally it
> occurred to me.  I bet the children put the casing on the rail to watch
> what would happen when the train ran over it!  I couldn't figure out any
> other way for the casing to be SO flattened (no hammer marks).
> I'm pretty sure the son collected the various shell casings (shot shells
> too) since there was a collection of over 100 handgun or shotgun casings of
> only 1 or 2 of each "brand" (name, like Climax, Arrow, Magic, etc.)...along
> with 107 rifle shells - of 5 makers, mostly Union Metallic Cart. Co....of 8
> different firing pin marks.
>
>
> Carol Serr
>
>
> Carol(at)LagunaEnv.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moore, Jamie J -FS <[log in to unmask]>
> To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 4:46 pm
> Subject: Re: Looking for help ID'ing a glass artifact
>
>
> It's a sighting to view the level of water of a boiler we have one
> collected
> from a railroad logging site.
>
>
> Jamie Moore
> District Archaeologist
> Forest
> Service
> Plumas National Forest, Feather River Ranger District
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>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Williams, Scott
> Sent: Monday, July 06,
> 2015 4:20 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Looking for help ID'ing a glass
> artifact
>
> Hi all,
>
> We recently found an unusual glass artifact associated
> with an early to mid- 20th Century logging town that was used as a
> sanitarium
> after the mill shut down, and refuse deposits from the two periods are
> mixed.
>
> We've put some pictures of the glass artifact on our website- if
> anyone has any idea what this might have been used for or a part of, we'd
> love
> to
> know:
>
> http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Environment/CulRes/Compliance.htm
>
> Dimensions
> are on the website-it's a thick, oval-shaped bar of clear glass, with
> ridges
> molded on one side and "Made in Germany"  etched on the other.  It looks
> like
> something industrial-a lens for some kind of light, perhaps, but we
> haven't seen
> anything like it before.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott S. Williams
> Cultural Resources
> Program Manager, WSDOT
> Ph: 360.570.6651
> Mobile:
> 360.485.5350
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> Web
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> "Development is not stifled by history, but enriched by it."
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