Artifacts, found in Your Garden

[Prairie Rose]

My garden sits inside the basement of the old house on the property that was torn down before my parents moved in forty plus years ago. I randomly find new pieces of sidewalk, bricks (enough that i figure this was a brick house), bones (typically cattle bones, this is an old dairy), bits of glass, a few old arrowheads, and marbles. So many little boys have lived here over the decades we find so. many. marbles. Occasionally tin men, but mostly marbles.

 

[digitS']

I found a buffalo nickel in my frontyard once. It was in such terrible shape that one really needed familiarity with those coins to recognize it for what it was. I thought that it might as well go in a change machine but may have promptly lost it.

My garden on other property at another home was in a vacant lot across the alley. It had once held a house that was demolished. No evidence remained except for a nearly buried, room-size shag carpet. That wasn't an interesting or pleasant artifact to find.

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Pieces of rusted metal, but no idea what it was, glass and at first when we moved here marbles. Kids played in that area in the past. I also find air rifle pellets from years past of DS. He used to shoot them at a target in the garage, probably 10 or 11 years ago, and I told him, be careful and don't get those in the hay for the rabbits. Well, they did get in the hay, and drop into the wood shavings and get in the compost bin, and then hauled to the garden. A 100 years from now people are going to wonder how all those little green pellets got in the yard. Thought about it and was not 10 or 11 years ago because the rabbits did not come until 2012, so around 7 years ago or less.

 

[digitS']

The marble I found and re-found has been lost once again. It was moved to a location out of the way and with a little pile of pot shards and rusted nails. Then, the  mint grew over it thru the Summer months .

These artifacts were found here at home instead of those above, from a distant garden.



Anyone had the good luck to turn up something similar?

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

i am getting sad reading these old threads bc there are members who have dropped out but they posted on these threads. Prairie Rose lives only a couple of hrs from me, and we used to share threads a few years ago.
Same with Thistlebloom.

 

[flowerbug]

i've been finding the usual items here, old bits of glass, some parts of wire or fabric strips from holding fences together or tomato cages, threads from fabric that has rotted and left just the seams behind, rusty nails, plastic pieces including bits from string trimmers. my brother says he's never found any at his place but i'm sure he's also never really looked...

 

[Alasgun]

i am getting sad reading these old threads bc there are members who have dropped out but they posted on these threads. Prairie Rose lives only a couple of hrs from me, and we used to share threads a few years ago.
Same with Thistlebloom.

Im with you @ducks4you ; i really miss Thistlebloom too!

As far as “Artifacts” those things my neighbors cat leaves in my fresh tilled beds probably don’t count huh?

 

[digitS']

Hmm?

 

[SPedigrees]

My property was part of a dairy farm for hundreds of years before we bought it. Hoping to find a couple metal items that we had lost, we bought a metal detector, but the only things it turned up were what one would expect, small rusted bits of farm equipment and bullet casings.

 

[digitS']

I re-found the marble and, found the large one . Remembering elementary school, I would call the large one a "steely" even though it isn't one made of metal.

The broken ceramic scrap is common in my garden and usually just ignore. The smaller pipe fitting is probably of only a short time in the soil. We had some bathroom remodeling about 10-12 years ago and the plumber may have left it there. The pipe union is so corroded that it seems likely to have been around much longer.

Yes, that's a bone. Think what I might I might find if'n there are other parts!

Do you suppose that a non-silver dime would corrode that badly? It's the right size and in even in worse shape than the nickel I mentioned 5 years ago in this thread.

There were quite a few pieces of quartz around years ago but the little kid living next door at that time hauled them off, with my permission. I know that is not quartz there at the top but whatever it is, we don't have more of them here in the yard.

And, @Pulsegleaner mentioning waupum made me think to post on this thread with the latest find – whatever it is .