I'm just wondering if there are other folks out there who have found artifacts or other things underground in their yards that they weren't sure as to what they were or if they did know what they were, didn't expect to find such a thing or things in their yard.

While rototilling a number of years ago for a garden area in my back yard, I came upon a square cement slab that I didn't know was there. When I lifted the slab up, I uncovered the end of an approximately 6 inch in diameter pipe. Upon dropping a rock in the pipe, I could here the rock take a long time, like three or four seconds to hit the bottom. To this day, I don't know what that pipe is for.

Has anyone got any ideas? I don't think that it is an old cistern because I don't think it would be that deep. Although, I could be incorrect about that. Maybe it is the shaft to an old well? Don't know.

What interesting thing or things have you found underground in your yard?

oneguyinohio

One older neighbor thought it might have been some sort of well for cattle since it had been a pasture many years before. A previous owner had also been in WW1 and was a tunnel expert/engineer so I may never know. I was told that guy would sit out in the over growth with his old military weapon and uniform as if having a flashback. They found him dead in the back yard dressed that way when he was quite old.

Clough

Do you know what he died of?

oneguyinohio

Old age is what I heard or heart failure

skunkman44

One my cousins once rented a old house. One day he was watching his kids out the window and they were jumping up and down in one spot. He went out to check it out and found a depression. It turned out to be an old well that was covered with old boards that were rotting. He found three more wells in that yard. After some research it turn out the house was a stage coach stop and Inn a couple of hundred years ago.

Clough

Now, that's pretty interesting. Thanks!