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Okay I have vids of four different pits,two didn't come out well so I"m not posting those.I also took a few pics I"ll throw in here as well. Here is vid number one.

Gabe I hadn't realized why you asked me about clay bottoms but I just read something last night that states that tar kilns were lined with clay I presume so the tar doesn't sink into the sand or so the sand don't contaminate the tar.I did not dig down far enough to confirm weather there was clay...

I now have the vids on computer and will probably upload them to youtube tomorrow.

it was a ring of dirt about two ft high and 20 ft across with the depression in center actually being about ground level,a couple of the buttons were slightly depressed in center but some appeared to be rings on flat ground.When i dug in center there was about six inches of humus and then...

I have the youtube account but am going to have to figure it out again. Might not get em up til tomorrow.I figured that would put a whammy on Bens space. Not even sure oif you can tell what I"m filming.have to get them on computer and then I can see how they really look.Sunny out today and...

I just got back from finding five tar Kilns along route 49 and I found four more along Berrymans Branch.The first one I could not find so I took a shovel sample at the coord and found pure white sand below the humus.I then went to the second and found that one and everyone after that.I took...

I"ll be looking for similar formations down here then.Are you going to check those bumps out?

your speaking of the lines of bumps in the upper left?

Bob the sand companies do that down here.I can show you several places down here where they have dug lines of pits.I remarked to a friend once they were just the right size for a pit shelter.

Do it yourself https://www.survival-manual.com/pine-tar.php

Worked hoot owl last night so I"m noddin off.Will have to read this tomorrow or maybe late this evening.Looks good. https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/tarheels-pitch-pine-colonial-america

When I lived in Belleplain Tarkiln Branch was one of my hangouts.I never thought of why it might be called that and had forgotten about it.

The little round pit might be a well.I know where a well is and the rim clearly shows up on the new LIDAR

Any historical info on those graves? Date put in? Who put them there?> Were they dogs?

Thanks Gabe! I think you hit the nail on the head with this one.Would also explain the trench that seems to break the ring in most of the features.,I knew about tar burning operations in the carolinas but didn't know the same thing was being done up here. I have probably walked over these...

What is a tar kiln? Sometrghimng to do with pine sap?

Would anyone have any idea what these button shaped formations are? They are all over the Cumberland Pond area and I suspect they map be Collier charcoal sites.I have checked the other furnace area and have found none or only a single on here and there but there are literally clusters in the...

Thanks Bob.I was trying to use the aerials with the hillshade on and they would start to come up and then disappear and the shade would cover them. This should let me get pretty darn close.

Looks like I"ll be making some edumacated guesses.

I just found a new island! With a potential cellar hole on it!