Unusual finds while digging/working on job sites

[Pistolier60]

Back in the early 70's my dad was working on the water treatment plant on the north side of Atlanta road where the Chattahoochee crosses it and the Historical society shut that job down for several weeks because they dug up an indian camp. There were piles of broken pottery piled up for weeks until they let them get back to work after they had researched it some. He brought some of it home and I've still got some pieces of it till this day. I'll try to get some pictures when I get home and post them in this thread.

 

[Trailrider]

Bought some land up in Jones county last year that had an old house site on it from the early 1900's. Tearing it down we found a bowling ball in the attic. Also, I continuously find old silverware out there and old tattered clothing. I have found a few older liquor bottles as well. I want to take a metal detector to the property and just see what else I can find.

 

[Morgan]

My wife found an old revolver in a dirty sock hidden behind some ductwork in my house. House was built circa 1900, revolver was 1920s ish.

 

[Horsehat]

My wife digs up old stuff all the time.

 

[BDR1]

Centre,al.... when the water was way down past the docks my cousin and i found a fully intact bowl that was hollowed out of a rock... we at the time didnt have a clue as to what it was. We were probbly about the age of 10

 

[DADI03]

My wife digs up old stuff all the time.

Bahahahaha

 

[buttplate]

Years ago a friend of my father's found a Remington Rolling block rifle while digging fish bait in Trion, Ga. It was wrapped in burlap and while the stock was all but gone the metal was rusted but not beyond restoration. Dad worked on that project for a long time. He made a stock for it, removed the hammer and firing pin. The end result is still in my possession and it does fire. Dad was a machinest and took just enough out of the chamber so that it cha.bers a 20 gage shotgun shell perfectly.

Dad is gone but I remember him sitting and working on that gun for hours.

 

[cr107]

My dad did upholstery work. I have 2 newspaper pieces from Wisconsin that are in German from 1868. Various old and foreign coins too.

https://www.theoutdoorstrader.com/t...translation-1868-german.1748351/#post-8486531

 

[Trailrider]

My wife digs up old stuff all the time.

Women have that uncanny ability to never let stuff go

 

[Joshua223]

Women have that uncanny ability to never let stuff go

Good to know I'm not alone.