Interesting Garden Artifacts and Other Finds
Sept 16, 2022 12:34:51 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 16, 2022 12:34:51 GMT -6
I found another interesting artifact in in the garden this morning. It was an aluminum ring pull tab. Being how those were discontinued back in 1975, that makes this thing at least 47-years old. Who knows how many times I've run over this with a tiller or a team of mules.
I added it to my collection of other interesting things I've found in my garden.
This 1936 Buffalo nickel was the next most recent thing I've found out there. I placed it along side the ring pull tab, and the collection of arrowheads, possible game pieces, a fossilized bone, and a stone hatchet/hoe/scraper that I've found out there.
This is all of them laid out. I've never seen a bone so dense and heavy as this one is. Notice how small the marrow channel is. (you might have to zoom in to see that). I think the two brown colored rocks may be game pieces. Whatever they are, they are both out of place in this type soil and definitely did not originate here. If you zoom in, you can see a narrow stone object between the game pieces and the iron shoe piece to the right. I'm not sure what the function of that little tool is. Any ideas?
Same things, just from another angle. I've not determined if this piece of iron is part of an old mule shoe, or part of an old oxen shoe. Horseshoes are much wider across the top and way rounder in shape.
This photo is focused primarily on the stone hatchet, or scraper, or hoe, or whatever this is. I was looking for a flat rock to throw at a grasshopper when I found this one. I almost threw it, then out of the corner of my eye, I recognized the tool marks along the flared edge and placed it in my pocket instead. (Unfortunately, the grasshopper got away).
I added it to my collection of other interesting things I've found in my garden.
This 1936 Buffalo nickel was the next most recent thing I've found out there. I placed it along side the ring pull tab, and the collection of arrowheads, possible game pieces, a fossilized bone, and a stone hatchet/hoe/scraper that I've found out there.
This is all of them laid out. I've never seen a bone so dense and heavy as this one is. Notice how small the marrow channel is. (you might have to zoom in to see that). I think the two brown colored rocks may be game pieces. Whatever they are, they are both out of place in this type soil and definitely did not originate here. If you zoom in, you can see a narrow stone object between the game pieces and the iron shoe piece to the right. I'm not sure what the function of that little tool is. Any ideas?
Same things, just from another angle. I've not determined if this piece of iron is part of an old mule shoe, or part of an old oxen shoe. Horseshoes are much wider across the top and way rounder in shape.
This photo is focused primarily on the stone hatchet, or scraper, or hoe, or whatever this is. I was looking for a flat rock to throw at a grasshopper when I found this one. I almost threw it, then out of the corner of my eye, I recognized the tool marks along the flared edge and placed it in my pocket instead. (Unfortunately, the grasshopper got away).
