Cool Or Creepy Things Found In The Bush Or On Your Property

[jyoutz]

I just read an article about an archeologist who uncovered a 500 year old Spanish cannon in southern Arizona near the border with Mexico. It was bronze and in perfect condition when uncovered. She also found another one in the vicinity that had the side blown out from firing it. No doubt that was a fatal event for the cannoneer.

 

[etpm]

I just read an article about an archeologist who uncovered a 500 year old Spanish cannon in southern Arizona near the border with Mexico. It was bronze and in perfect condition when uncovered. She also found another one in the vicinity that had the side blown out from firing it. No doubt that was a fatal event for the cannoneer.

Can you imagine just how excited she must have been to uncover that specimen in perfect condition? What a find! I'm really happy for her.
Eric

 

[LHF2019]

I’ve got ashes of a famous jazz musician buried in my back yard somewhere. So I’ve been told. Not sure exactly where, no marker was ever found. But the guy who buried them said by an apple tree. I have 3. One broke off and was removed, another just snapped off about 5 feet up this summer. Might just leave that one be.

I did field work for many year for a wealthy farmer. No children and never married. I'm not sure if his family settled the ground or they acquired it from previous owners. Any way I was told that a big boulder separating 2 fields had young children buried under it. Since he died unexpectedly his whole life/farm was sold/parceled off and bet the new owners know nothing of the story. Imagine the shock if true and remnants are there.

 

[paulsharvey]

Not sure if this counts, but son picked up a 93 Nissian D21 Hardbody truck yesterday. Going through the stuff under the seats, he found a knock off Walkman, and an old Alabama tape.

 

[Rockbadchild]

The only difference between a 'collector' and a 'horder' is the illusion of organization.... ;<)

I agree with the premise but you see a vast overall differences in quality of the object collected as well... Most All the hoarder I have seen just kept junk over all, yes you would find gemstone here and there but it's more finding a needle in a haystack more then anything else... then a collector the majority of the items are worth money.

 

[bcp]

To me, a "collector" has a pattern or goal to their acquisitions. "Hoarders" keep junk and trash.

I'm an "accumulator."

Bruce

 

[MossRoad]

We always joked that 3 or more of something makes a collection and 3 or more collections makes a museum. I qualify as a museum owner by that definition.

 

[FullMetalBucket]

We always joked that 3 or more of something makes a collection and 3 or more collections makes a museum. I qualify as a museum owner by that definition.

I must be a collector of hammers, tape measures, flashlights and axes . For some reason I can’t have enough of these items .

 

[bmaverick]

I found this while digging in a water line. It is about 4" or 103.2mm in diameter. It's 5.6mm thick and weighs 9.5 ounces. This property was developed about 25 years ago, but I think this is older than 25 years. This northern desert country and the ground is dry and dusty most of the time. I have done nothing more than wash off the dirt
It was found about 3 inches under the gravel the previous owners and developers had put in the area. The location is about 1500 feet off of an old Hudson's Bay Company trail, later wagon road that led from Fort Vancouver to the central BC interior. From what I could find in Internet searches is that it a medal in honor of St. Vincent and the language seems to be Hungarian.
The previous owner may have lost it or someone may have decided to camp off of the trail a ways sometime in the past and lost it.
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Judging by the artist initials FM and the fancy script, this 4-inch wine keg plate is from the 1960s to the 1990s.

I had tried a few attempts on your images to match what you have to a winery. Nothing turned up. Yours is very interesting. It has a flat bar at the top with a rectangular hole.
This is not the norm. It is usually a round type for the wine hook to grab onto. Yours would take a odd wine hook with a flat V style to grab it.

OK, found a direct hit. It is from Szent Vince Winery in Eger, Hungary
Eger wine region - Wikipedia

If it was a good wine keg, people would mount it on the wall or on a stand like this,
The Greeks are very popular with this, and so are other Mediterranean countries.
Some of these wine keg plates go back to the later Romans and up into US Colonial times.

Antique dealers look for the late 1800s to early 1900s as good collector specimens.

 

[ponytug]

@bmaverick Great detective work!

All the best, Peter