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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 2349654, member: 50"]I will say that now you know it was used as a dump site, unless you've found your items in an undisturbed context the age will be of less value (even if it can be determined). </p><p><br /></p><p>A little story, years ago I was working on a farm with a landowner digging an 18th/early 19th C cellar and ice house. He knew that the land had been used for sod at one time and that some of the sod went to a football stadium. We did a few tests on the field just next to this one (that had never been in sod) and found that the field where we were digging had up to 12" less topsoil so potentially lots of artifact went out with the sod. The sod was regularly torn out of the football stadium and presumably dumped somewhere. We mused about how someday someone was going to be finding 18th C artifacts (and probably some Native American) that they would never know had no connection to where they were finding them unless they did some significant research.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 2349654, member: 50"]I will say that now you know it was used as a dump site, unless you've found your items in an undisturbed context the age will be of less value (even if it can be determined). A little story, years ago I was working on a farm with a landowner digging an 18th/early 19th C cellar and ice house. He knew that the land had been used for sod at one time and that some of the sod went to a football stadium. We did a few tests on the field just next to this one (that had never been in sod) and found that the field where we were digging had up to 12" less topsoil so potentially lots of artifact went out with the sod. The sod was regularly torn out of the football stadium and presumably dumped somewhere. We mused about how someday someone was going to be finding 18th C artifacts (and probably some Native American) that they would never know had no connection to where they were finding them unless they did some significant research.[/QUOTE]
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