maryannscraps
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 9, 2018 20:00:27 GMT
Our house was built on an old gravel pit. After it was in disuse from the 50s-early 90s, teenagers used to go parking up here. I've found more broken beer bottles and car parts over the 20 years we've been here. The front end of a 50s car was found as they were digging our foundation.
I know I've told this story before, but I love it still. Years ago I was planting daffodil bulbs in the fall and lost my favorite sunglasses. In the spring, I found the sunglasses resting in the flowers after they came up. The daffodils had pushed them right up through the dirt. Sadly, they were too scratched to wear anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 20:49:53 GMT
When I was a kid, I found a marijuana plant (small) in my personal flower garden. Now, it does legit grow wild in some places, and this yard did back up to a huge field (acres upon acres). But...I just don't know I believe that's where it came from! Marijuana grows wild all over upstate ( western ) ny.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 20:55:16 GMT
At different times while digging flower beds and laying out new sidewalk and step areas we have found 3 different Native American artifacts. The first one is a stone ball, perfectly round, about 4 1/2 inches in diameter. We had an OMSI scientist look at it and it was determined to be a game ball. Another time we found my favorite... a lovely small stone pestle. It's worn very smooth and fits perfectly in your hand. By turning it you can feel exactly how it was held and used through the millennia. And the last thing we found was a partially knapped arrow head made from a piece of green malachite that had been traded by Native Americans who came down the Columbia River from further east, the stone probably coming out of Montana. I am surprised you were allowed to keep that stuff. A homeowner in kennewick found arrowheads, he was fined and his yard turned into a dig site.
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Sue
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Post by Sue on Mar 9, 2018 21:42:59 GMT
At different times while digging flower beds and laying out new sidewalk and step areas we have found 3 different Native American artifacts. The first one is a stone ball, perfectly round, about 4 1/2 inches in diameter. We had an OMSI scientist look at it and it was determined to be a game ball. Another time we found my favorite... a lovely small stone pestle. It's worn very smooth and fits perfectly in your hand. By turning it you can feel exactly how it was held and used through the millennia. And the last thing we found was a partially knapped arrow head made from a piece of green malachite that had been traded by Native Americans who came down the Columbia River from further east, the stone probably coming out of Montana. I am surprised you were allowed to keep that stuff. A homeowner in kennewick found arrowheads, he was fined and his yard turned into a dig site. From the Oregon State Parks website: "Archaeological sites found on private land are owned by the landowner and the land remains in the owner’s possession. At the conclusion of any state permitted archaeological excavation, all recovered artifacts remain the property of the landowner unless they consist of Native American human remains, burials and associated funerary objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. Often, landowners choose to donate recovered artifacts to a museum or tribe." I'm sure there was much more to the Kenniwick story than just a guy finding arrowheads on his own property. You wouldn't be fined for that! What we found in our yard was not significant enough to be deemed an archaeological site. We plan on donating our finds to our local historical society in the future.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 23:23:33 GMT
SueI think this happened around the time kennewick man was found. I remember there were warnings not to pick up to pick up objects around the river. I will now have to track down that article. I can remember seeing the side yard dug up. I think the homeowner was trying to sell them?? I am not sure.
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Post by pastlifepea on Mar 10, 2018 0:28:02 GMT
We bought our house about two years ago and a lot of the yard was very overgrown. Doesn't take long for that to happen in Florida. Best inanimate object goes to: Fully intact wrist cast found under a bush. I still wonder how it came off. Best living thing goes to: A skink with a forked tail. I was moving some landscape pavers and finding little snakes, frogs, and lizards. Lifted one up and there is a BIG old skink with TWO tails! This is supposed to be lucky but I forgot to buy a lottery ticket. I'm lucky enough as it is.
Some of y'all have found some crazy stuff in your yards.
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scrappyesq
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Post by scrappyesq on Mar 10, 2018 2:46:06 GMT
Well I don't have a front yard per se but in the bushes by the front entrance to my building the other day I saw a skunk. And I live in the city.
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Peal
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Post by Peal on Mar 10, 2018 3:13:27 GMT
Our property runs through the original fort boundries from when our town was first settled. We haven't done any digging around yet as we haven't been in the house very long and haven't even thought about the yard yet, but I know the lady who lives through the field of us to the west has a number of items they've dug up over the years. We are considering a swimming pool, so we might find a lot of things.
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Post by peasapie on Mar 10, 2018 3:21:43 GMT
not in my garden, but in our backyard... the next door neighbor has a huge pine tree very close to the wall, and I found an owl pellet on the ground underneath the tree limbs. I took it apart (former biology major, here, lol) and there were tiny little bones, fur, etc. from a mouse or some such animal. The skull was partly intact, so I could see the jaw bones and some teeny, tiny teeth. It was pretty cool! I used to do that every year in my classroom. You can buy them, disinfected, from online science companies. Usually we reconstructed the skeletons of voles and small birds. It felt like what a paleontologist must experience when trying to determine what is found based on bone structure!
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Post by wasil on Mar 10, 2018 3:59:40 GMT
When my kids were young we had a sand pile under the pine trees beside our driveway. One summer the kids kept finding old hard boiled eggs with what appeared to be a bit of Easter dye on them. They were still completely intact but they smelled awful.
We think my husband threw the leftover Easter eggs in the compost bin and the raccoons or some other wild life found them and buried for later but then forgot about them.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 10, 2018 4:45:52 GMT
I have seen a couple of alligator lizards. They are small and kind of look like little alligators. They are good for the garden. We don't get good stuff here.
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Post by dulcemama on Mar 10, 2018 4:49:48 GMT
A purple glass cameo. It's pretty intricate and kind of unusual. I don.t know if it is from a piece of costume jewelry.
The head of a possum. No sign of it's body anywhere. I'm guessing it was an owl's dinner.
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Post by shescrafty on Mar 10, 2018 12:16:35 GMT
Lots and lots of knives-steal knives up to a really long one.
The people who lived here before us had 3 teenagers and no control (they had spray painted the basement walls and had shot BBs into one of the bedroom doors. We guess the oldest son would take them from the house and bury them.
Weird.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Mar 10, 2018 13:04:45 GMT
Clay pipe stems all the time.
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Post by eversograceful1 on Mar 10, 2018 13:12:30 GMT
This isn’t really what you asked but I wonder what the next owners of this house will think if they dig up our animal graveyard. We’ve buried 2 dogs and 3 rats, all next to each other.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2018 13:17:58 GMT
Not weird, but you remember years ago when Sun Chips came out with those compostable silver bags, the crinkle sound of which drove everyone crazy? I dutifully cut up a few bags into small squares for even easier composting, and I still find silver squares of bag in my soil all these years later. ![>:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/superangry.png)
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Post by Katiepotatie on Mar 11, 2018 6:37:03 GMT
Peanut shells. I used to think the neighbors behind us were tossing them over the fence because they’re usually near the fence line. But we have new neighbors and we’re STILL getting peanut shells in the garden! I’m sure it’s from birds or other critters, but how are the critters getting so many peanut shells??
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Post by corinne11 on Mar 11, 2018 7:41:10 GMT
This isn’t really what you asked but I wonder what the next owners of this house will think if they dig up our animal graveyard. We’ve buried 2 dogs and 3 rats, all next to each other. We buried our little turtle Bob at our old house which was demolished after we left and we have buried our bigger 40 yr old Shelley in our current back yard. Corinne
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