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Finding Things Underground in Your Yard That You Didn't Expect to Be There
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?
Well, not in MY yard, but a tree buried for more than ?? years was discovered in an adjacent subdivision.
Apparently it was buried when the street system was first developed and the road makers decided to bury it instead of cut it up(it was extremely large.Costs for extraction and processing was more than the home/property it was on was worth at the time!)
And yes, the pipe in your yard does sound like an old sand point well,I would cap it with concrete so nothing falls down it!(Remember the kid in Texas)
Yet another interest thread Clough! I have never found anything...but have always thought of getting a metal detector and looking. Maybe when I dig for a garden next spring..I will find treasures!
My mom found an old train car (small like hot wheels cars)..she took it to an antique shop and they guessed it was about 60 years old. We thought it was pretty cool. We made it into a xmas decoration..I'll have to go look and see if she has it out this year
When my family sold our farm and moved into town, my Dad was tilling a portion of the back yard for Mom's garden. He came across a leather pouch. In that pouch were Confederate monies. About $500.00 worth of bills and a map. Not much of a map, just a river and some x's along the river. Dad took it to one of the college's history professors and he thought that, even though the town had a river, it would not have been the river the person was supposed to follow. As the Sheyenne River did not flow North to Canada. But the Red River, 85 miles to the East, did. Dad wrote the Historical Society and a man came and looked at the pouch and contents. There was another theory proposed - that there had been an Army veteran who been in that War and just buried it. There was Army in that area at that time but not close to any fort, but passing through, fighting Indian Wars. Could have been a deserter too. We never found out.
A sand point(or driver point well) is a hand drilled well, primarily used in sandy soiled areas(like where we are) shallow and the ground water is only filtered by the sand( not up to code anymore,to my knowledge)
While digging a few inches under the ground right next to an old farm house that I lived in for a number of years, I came across probably a couple hundred large nails. I can't imagine why someone had not picked them up. How on earth did someone not notice them? Did someone just decide to bury them instead of picking them up? It is a mystery!
In a house I owned the back section of the property was grown up in locust sapplings etc... and the previous owner had told me there was a hole back there. So when I got around to cleaning out the portion of the yard, I found a brick lined tunnel that appeared to be a well of some sort. It was not straight down, but went at odd curves. I assume that might have been due to shifting earth over the years? The brick liner was all in tact the entire way down the hole, and it was at least 50-60 feet deep. It was about 3 feet in diameter. As far as I could see I did not see an end to it, but at the bottom, it appeared to be rounded off or possibly turn to go into more of a vertical tunnel. There was only about 3 inches of water in the bottom where it turned.
I was worried about liability, and especially did not want anyone to get hurt, so I filled it in with a lot of old stuff, then had 2 large loads of stone and sand brought in to fill it. I wish I had had some sort of a camera to investigate the portion that I could not see.
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