Indiana Sandy explores another Archaeological Dig

It has been a busy week around our place. Mama was busy working in the garden creating another garden bed along the back fence...

I don't know if you remember... but for the past year, a pile of spare wood has sat on that spot, covered by tarps. What with all the building going on, those wood pieces have all been used up! Finally! It was a bit of an eyesore and a Chinese Triad Rat Gang hangout... but now it's gone!

So, in that blank, grassless space... it was decided to create another bed... perhaps for raspberries! A little bear can definitely get behind that plan. As with most digging projects in our yard, there were, of course, a certain number of archaeological artifacts unearthed.

 A bit of rusted chain, a toy screw driver, an action figure, some green handled clippers, a seahorse thingie.... and...

This mysterious object!

Yes... it is what you think it is... a bullet for a rifle of some sort.

I really DO hope that whoever lived here way back when didn't leave any unexploded grenades lying around. Seriously! The way pushes the shovel into the ground... that could end in disaster! I really do not know what to make of the people who lived here previously... cowboy plumber hunters with kids?

A few landscape ties later and... we have us a garden bed!

 Now, we just have to root out some raspberries to plant here. It might be a bit late for that - so that might have to wait until the fall... But in the meantime, there are a few flowers looking for a home!

Indiana Sandy and The Secret of the Lost Artifacts

Hullo! Indiana Bear here, reporting to you from my latest dig in the wilds of Canada (my backyard). Today I am supervising an excavation for the purposes of building a potting bench area. This excavation is located near the deck and promises to be quite lucrative in the artifacts department.

It didn't take beary long before my helper had uncovered the first two artifacts. Beary interesting...

Let me see... it is made out of metal, perhaps brass.

And... it appears to have a hollow top - my guess would be an ancient vase from the last century, circa 1990s... commonly referred to as The Pre-Millenial Era. Not all that rare, but interesting none-the-less.

Next up... a beary oxidized (i.e. rusted, but oxidized sounds better) piece of chain. The links are quite small and I am leaning towards it being a dog chain.

And then a tiny piece of plastic, marked Dixie. Clearly a Dixie cup - these are beary common and could be from any era.

This is a great dig location!! After a while, I could bearly keep up with my helper...

See!!! Soooo... that is a clear plastic glove on the left (it looks beary... yucky). And if you look closely at the rusty chain bits... you'll see there is indeed a dog latch near the bottom.

So... what else do we have... several two soldiers, a bit of shell, some glass, a nail, a pop can top, a toy truck wheel and a super cool cats-eye cob marble! Hmmm... Mama thinks they are called cobs... they are the big ones, not the regular marble sized ones... Are they called cobs? Anyhow... they could be from the Middle Ages of the past century to the Pre-Millenial. Hard to say...

Next up.... some strips of metal and...

A bit of a door latch plate, another soldier, a paintbrush and a nickel!!! This has been a beary cool dig but it is getting hard for me to speculate as to the habits of the previous inhabitants. Initially I thought it was a cowboy plumber with kids... now I would say a cowboy plumber with kids and a dog and a wife who liked to gardening and paint. Whew!