One factor which may have influenced the nature of our site's substrate was made evident by the presence of low stone walls, old fence posts, barbed wire, and the remains of an old well. The well and fence posts were both located towards the north western end of our plot. The stone walls ran from north to south along our hectares eastern side and the barbed wire ran from north to south along the western side. The presence of these objects within our hectare suggests that at one point our site had been used for agricultural purposes. It remains unclear how long ago this might have been however, judging by the size of some of the trees on our site it must have been a very long time ago. Some of the larger eastern white pine, sugar maple and ash trees must be in the range of 100 years old. So if our site was used for agriculture at some point in the past it must have been no sooner than the early 1900s.
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