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Message started by db on Nov 23rd, 2009 at 7:21am

Title: Re: Unusual finds
Post by Springer2 on Dec 28th, 2009 at 8:37pm
I discovered an old dump in a cedar swamp behind a campsite on Elk Lake in Quetico a few years ago whilst excavating a cathole after my AM coffee.  Mostly old half-buried Mason jars and rusty tin cans, but did unearth an intact Virginia Dare wine bottle with embossed writing in the glass.  From what I can determine from on-line research it was probably made in the 1940's or early 50's.  Must have been a long-term camp or cabin there.  Also found a very old and rusty steel trap wired to a cedar overhanging the water in a remote bay on Hurn Lake.  Since the two lakes are next to each other maybe there was a trapper's cabin on Elk.  I have read that there was a trapper's cabin on Cone Lake just to the north of Elk, but looked and could find no evidence of it, or even a decent place to set up a tent.
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