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Just found a cluster of four tar kilns right down the rd from my house

A lot of little pimples just east of Aetna furnace as well,near the big cellar hole.i've been there and noticed the ground was kind of acnefied.

Just found many of those grid like charcoal mounds east of Atsion.Looks like I"m going to be busy:-)

Thanks again Boyd! especially for putting coords to it. Makes locating tar kilns much easier then trying to match different aerials which works but takes a bit of time and head banging in areas where there are no notable trees or tree patterns.

https://www.nj-roots.org/index.php/counties/cumberland-county/51-the-vineland-historical-magazine/the-vineland-historical-magazine-volume-3-number-2/119-the-old-time-tar-kilns-volume-3-number-2

Hopefully they will rebuild

Is this the same resolution as the hill shade site? Pears to be only no zoom past full resolution

First pic is a sandstone mine on top of a ridge,it was really pretty,nice open oak ridge the others are of a Vineland Millville line stone,there are many of these and they all look fairly similar.The concrete base had an M on the south side for Millville and an L on the south side for landisvill...

Pit 4

Pit 3

Pit 2

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.