Unusual finds while digging/working on job sites

[Granite3]

My buddy owns rental houses in Griffin, found a 1902 Colt pistol in the wall of one he remodeled a few years ago. It had been reblued and still shot well.

 

[Heat01]

I was swimming in the Etowah river in Euharlee with some buddy’s when I was in middle school around the Indian fish traps. Swam across the river got to the other side dug in to pull myself out of the river and pulled up a bunch of pottery and stone knife. Bartow county history museum has it on display and rotates several of my pieces out. The archeological at the Indian mounds dated it BC.

 

[webicknell]

Nice thread

 

[galvatron]

Dead body..... it was the south Bronx so not really unusually or even noteworthy...

 

[Rabbit2047]

Found a LeMatt revolver in a tobacco field growing up in Roxboro NC. Like an idiot I donated it to the county museum.

 

[Radar363]

Frankfurt Air Base, Germany around 1975/76. Digging footers for a building. I was in the trench with a shovel, I hit something hard and when I tossed it out of the trench in a shovel full of dirt, out came a 3" thick object about 9" in diameter with a "T" shaped protrusion on one side. The captain in charge saw it when I tossed it out and immediately called for us all to hit the ground!
Crisis averted when it was determined to be a hatch cover for some type of fuel tank.....

Hope you were wearing your brown pants...

 

[Coop]

A company I used to work for found a still intact civil war cannon ball near the Wynn’s-Russell house in lilburn.
We were digging a pound near Deepstep and found several pieces of twisted metal rock and some sharks teeth. A geologist friend told us that the rocks were probably magma that had cooled thousands of years ago. Both were definitely unexpected.

 

[testdepth]

When I was a kid I spent many hours in the river bottom behind our house and once while I was walking back up the hill a glint of gold caught my eye and I reached down to find a Schaeffer fountain pen with an 18kt gold tip. It was the kind you unscrew the back and stick the tip in a bottle of ink to suck the ink up to fill it. My father called them and sent it to them for repair. The company sent me back a brand new one.

 

[testdepth]

So I’ve been a dirt dog, involved in outside construction of one type or another most of my life. All the different job sites over the years you run into some bizarre stuff. Today was a first! I guess my top 2 are an old slave graveyard near Stonecrest Mall and the Human bone and clothing today. Needless to say the authorities are doing their duty. I wonder when we’ll find buried cash, gold or a buried civil war stash of weapons!!!! Ok, I know I’m reaching a bit. Anyone else run into bizarre finds while doing your jobs?

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Whomever buried Hoffa there is going to be pissed!

 

[jhunter]

Always seem to find a golf ball on every job site!