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

[sixdogs]

When we lived in very rural Maine 25 years ago, I was out in the woods one day admiring those who had farmed that ground before me and lived where they did. There was an old stone wall looking kind of ramp I'll guess was used to load cattle. That would have been long ago as that area had all grown over.

Despite being there many times, I looked in a part of a wall and found a 50 lb rock with a man-made grove cut around it and then smoothed out. With what tools I don't know but probably from very long ago and the earliest settlers. It took some work to put that groove in.

I learned it was used to tie a length of rope to the rock on one end and the cow on the other end to keep them in the yard. The groove was to keep the rope from slipping out. We may have moved but I still have that rock out in the yard.

I'm the OP on the above rock and here is a picture of it. OK, two pictures. You can see the groove someone cut in the rock and the fact that it was smoothed likely from the rope tied to the cow to keep it from running off.

Our farm in Maine was very old and likely settled in the late 1700's to early 1800's so that rock has been around a while. There was a cemetery nearby that had civil war solders in it and also graves of at least one person from the Revolutionary War.

 

[Hay Dude]

I just mowed a small filed along a state road. Must have been (20) empty pint bottles of Smirnoff Vodka tossed in there.

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

I'm the OP on the above rock and here is a picture of it. OK, two pictures. You can see the groove someone cut in the rock and the fact that it was smoothed likely from the rope tied to the cow to keep it from running off.

Our farm in Maine was very old and likely settled in the late 1700's to early 1800's so that rock has been around a while. There was a cemetery nearby that had civil war solders in it and also graves of at least one person from the Revolutionary War.

could also be cut that way to be used as a tensioner on a wire strand or to offset tension on an end post from pulling in and the groove widens / smooths in the winds and through the seasons.

 

[masseyrider]

When I first moved to my current abode the neighbour told me that the old guy who had owned the place prior to the people I bought from didn't trust banks.
Supposedly there was money buried on the property.
I borrowed a friends metal detector and spent a few days searching.
I found everything from bottle caps, old something or others, horse shoes...
Finally hit pay dirt.
Two 1 gallon jars containing 40s, 50s silver quarters and some silver dollars.
Mostly in good condition.
Not life altering value but enough to have a celebration.
Kept looking but haven't found anything more.

 

[TheOtherEnder]

I bought a home built in 1907 and it still had the original kitchen and bath so I began renovations. Inside the plaster and lath walls were dozens of empty clear glass quart beer bottles mostly Blatz. After consulting with an anthropologist and a historian we came to the conclusion that plasterers of the era were high functioning drunkards.

 

[Jstpssng]

After my grandfather passed away, my parents moved into the house he'd had built.
While remodeling they came across a piece of paper in the wall which had been signed and dated by the carpenters in January 1928.

 

[Yogi05]

I suspect there are lots of "time capsule" notes and stuff left in walls during construction, but
I am always amazed how stories of people hiding valuables in walls when renovating, only to be forgotten
and only found when someone does the next renovation.

 

[Racer4]

I suspect there are lots of "time capsule" notes and stuff left in walls during construction, but
I am always amazed how stories of people hiding valuables in walls when renovating, only to be forgotten
and only found when someone does the next renovation.

A contractor I know was working on an old house nearby. The guys opened up a wall and found a short barreled shotgun, brand new, in its box. It was from the time period when they were legal to buy. They turned it in to the police or atf, don’t remember which one.

 

[Jstpssng]

A contractor I know was working on an old house nearby. The guys opened up a wall and found a short barreled shotgun, brand new, in its box. It was from the time period when they were legal to buy. They turned it in to the police or atf, don’t remember which one.

An elderly acquaintance told of having a sawed off double barrel shotgun when he was about 12. His father took it away from him and hid it in the barn; Lloyd found it and started playing with it again. His father was pouring a foundation when he saw it so took the gun and tossed it into the concrete.

I think about it every time I drive past their old house... Somewhere in that foundation there is a sawed off shotgun.

Is that still considered possession?

 

[ponytug]

An elderly acquaintance told of having a sawed off double barrel shotgun when he was about 12. His father took it away from him and hid it in the barn; Lloyd found it and started playing with it again. His father was pouring a foundation when he saw it so took the gun and tossed it into the concrete.

I think about it every time I drive past their old house... Somewhere in that foundation there is a sawed off shotgun.

Is that still considered possession?

Do you think that it might fall into the "non-functional" category at this point?