What Have you unexpectedly found when Digging?

[shvl73]

I found 2 55gal drums filled with rocks. Not too exciting and I want to keep it that way. If I start finding body parts, I'm moving!

 

[LBrown59]

I don't fool with any thing other than gold silver and diamonds.
So far I haven't had to fool with any thing!

 

[LBrown59]

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

Had you called before you dug?

 

[Kendall69]

My land sit in the middle of the Desert, 30 some feet BELOW sea level. When I was back hoeing I came across a layer of sea shells, thousands of them , strange being hundreds of miles from water. The whole area was once under water.
Then in another area I hit what looked like an old dump site, and dug up hundreds of very old bottles in strange shapes and weird colors, some seemd like perfume bottles, all in perfect condition, because they were just in sand.

 

[Ductape]

Hmm...... i can tell you what the next guy is going to dig up out behind my barn !!!

 

[cp1969]

Had you called before you dug?

Yes. As I said before, we knew they were there.

 

[RichM96067]

Hi All,
All of us who own tractors naturally love to dig, turn up ground and make holes (sometimes for no good reason). I proudly admit when my tractor was new i love to make holes with my backhoe out of boredom and for practice.
I have dug up some weird looking stuff here on the old farm and no clue what it may be. I will post pic here and I think it would be fun to hear other folks digging stories of unexpected finds, hopefully not in the 220 volt range. So lets hear them guys. These seem to me made of hard clay with somthing brittle in the middle

Chris

Looks like white rubber tires, hardened from age. Old cast iron toys (cars/trucks/motorcycles) had these white rubber tires. I have lots of em.

 

[pat32rf]

We bought our place when the bank repo-ed it from a rather shady family. The man of the family was in jail at the time and his wife explained that the dodge motor in the barn was her brothers and didn't come with the deal. Sure enough, at closing date the motor was gone and I forgot about it until I got my hoe and found a complete P/U truck frame burried behind the barn, about 6" down. The next year I was moving a brush pile for a bigger storage area and found the cab. Still haven't found the box.....

 

[MossRoad]

My land sit in the middle of the Desert, 30 some feet BELOW sea level. When I was back hoeing I came across a layer of sea shells, thousands of them , strange being hundreds of miles from water. The whole area was once under water.
Then in another area I hit what looked like an old dump site, and dug up hundreds of very old bottles in strange shapes and weird colors, some seemd like perfume bottles, all in perfect condition, because they were just in sand.

There's a place like that south west of South Bend, Indiana. It was a swamp until the 1800's, when it was drained. The area from here all the way to the Illinois border only has an 11' drop in elevation. At one time, it was a sea bed. If you go down 4-8' below the muck soil, there is a layer of sea shells about 4' thick, then sand. Pretty neat.

 

[Highbeam]

Besides the fairly common cable choker that was used to log in this area I have managed to find a four cylinder flat head. Cylinder head only from some sort of engine. Way out away from where people had been so it must have been being farmed/cleared/etc.

Oil filters and oil cans from an "in-the-field" oil change.