Artifacts, found in Your Garden

[ninnymary]

Steve. we found bones last year and it might have been a child's! Well at least that's what we thought at then time. Our house being a small Victorian over 100 years old who knows. Ok, maybe it was a dog's. I kept them for a while but maybe I threw them away now. I'll see if I have a picture of them.

Mary

 

[Pulsegleaner]

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

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An online check seems to indicate three line mud snail. Though what one is doing that far inland is beyond me (maybe someone brought it back from a trip to the Atlantic ocean). Or maybe it can take fresh or brackish water as well and came from one of the larger rivers.

 

[flowerbug]

@digitS' we called large marbles Boulders.

 

[flowerbug]

An online check seems to indicate three line mud snail. Though what one is doing that far inland is beyond me (maybe someone brought it back from a trip to the Atlantic ocean). Or maybe it can take fresh or brackish water as well and came from one of the larger rivers.

maybe a fossil version?

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Not impossible, but it looks awfully clean for a fossil (i.e. it's still the right color for a fresh one, and the opening is free of stone. The latter could be taken care of by cleaning, but this was dug up from the ground.

 

[digitS']

This spike is 12 inches long. There is a 6" one behind it which, I myself may have lost altho I can't remember what I might have used the common spike for but I have bought them in the past.

Twelve Inches? What would have been the purpose for that? It was about 2" below the soil surface and driven straight down about 24" from the corner of the greenhouse foundation. It was so badly rusted that it took me about a half a minute of tugging to pull it out after I had removed the sod and notice the head.

Any log structures once on the property ...?

I counted 15 nails found, another staple, the eye screw, and a wood screw. Along with those were 3 hose washers . It was quite a slew of nails but that might have been because the path and new bed are somewhat close to the house.

Freezing again this morning but at some point soon I will bring out the little blue fountain and replace the silly plastic bowl. If rain water had frozen and broke it this Winter, I would have cared little and that would also be true of the House Sparrows. No immediate neighbor feeds them these days so there are far fewer here. I suppose that I should be filling the bowl rather than wait for snow & rain because it is completely dry right now. It's obvious that there is a pair of crows nesting near the top of a very large Douglas fir only about 80 yards away. I'm not at all sure that I want to attract them to the backyard. The little blue fountain with its spitting blue fish will encourage them soon but the nearby school will also be running sprinklers soon. The crows and I will be much more comfortable out in that playground .

 

[flowerbug]

i felt like an artifact today. will have to rest a bit more before going back out and hope i can finish enough so it looks better.

i wonder if it was something like an animal peg like for holding a dog's chain or ?

 

[Anniekay]

I found hundreds of pieces of metal junk, glass up the ying/yang, but then...
I found chert, red chert, that was worked by native Americans into different tools. I found lots of chipping too. I can just see them sitting 10' from my house working away chipping stone into tools.

I also found a dozen or so marbles and one big shooter marble.
Loads of coal in all sizes since they heated this house with coal back at the turn of the century, that makes sense.

Horse shoes, probably 5 or 6 that are in my rock garden.


A kid's cap gun that still opens.

Then there is Charlie Chain snake. I don't know what it came off of: too large to be from a bicycle and too small to be a tow chain or motorcycle chain. I gave him glass eyes and put him in the rock garden.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

All I ever found in my garden were old tires , broken T posts, old horse shoes, snarled barb wire and an old pair of sunglasses.
Nothing nearly as interesting as all the pics in the above posts.

 

[flowerbug]

the other day i found a chunk of very rusted barbed wire in a garden. stories such things must have but we have to make them up ourselves now.