What Have you unexpectedly found when Digging?

[motepoc]

Those things kinda look like butter molds that I have seen up in Pa.

 

[dooleysm]

When we were grading our road a couple weeks ago we found some type of really old looking motor that's full of rust and mud. Also a railroad spike.

My cousin digs graves in most of the rural cemeteries in a nearby county. One day while digging a grave he pulled up a large black trash bag with a human leg in it. After some investigation he learned that it was the leg of someone with a nearby plot that had lost it in a farming accident years prior. The guy was still alive, but his leg had been buried in the wrong plot.

I can't imagine anyone can top that.

 

[srjones]

I can't imagine anyone can top that.

Nope, can't beat that, but maybe close. Not me, but my brother-in-law dug up the remains of two horses. (kept the horseshoes BTW )

So digging up a buried horse isn't particularly strange if it was out in the country on a farm, but this was in a city.

 

[madpogue]

Obviously not me who dug this up, but this was in this morning's local paper: Red Brick 'hand' leaves mystery

 

[civesnedfield]

I don't know if i can top it but this is good. Back in 1985 i was working for a general contractor and we were building a new Inn/Hotel. The loam had been scraped up and the existing buildings had either been removed or demolished. There were small piles of loam and dirt scattered here and there. From the first day on the job myself and the other guys had seen small bones around the dirt piles, thought they were chicken, and in some cases deere or larger animal bones.
About eight months into the project the owner of the roofing company we hired was onsite looking around and he picked up one of these bones lying on the ground. He looked at and said it was a human bone. At an earlier part of his life he was premed.
Here is where the fun started. The police were called in, they called in the state police, and they called in the coroner.
After about a week of polking around and digging they found what they were looking for. A small family plot.
It seems that back in the early 1800's this property had been a farm and what we had was the family cemetery. It never showed up on any drawings the city had for the area.
The police said they would try to locate any relatives and rebury the bodies at a local cemetary.

 

[beersngars]

This is no mystery!!! Those are some of my wifes cookies.

 

[civesnedfield]

This is no mystery!!! Those are some of my wifes cookies.

You better hope she does not hear about that.

 

[3RRL]

I posted this before, but while digging up an Oak tree about 4' deep, I uncovered this giant grub.
Scared the heck out of me. Reminded me of the movie "Rodan" when it first came out.

 

[cp1969]

13,000 volt power line. Buried loose in the ground, about 4 feet deep alongside a hedge row.

 

[Kendrick]

cp I woulda found brown shorts after that experiance