The reason?
Some idiot who owned the house you live in now had the shed out back demolished and the demolition team was about as tidy as a cave-dwelling orangutan (WTF!??-Chimples).
So not only was the demolition of your shed possibly the reason you don't have $1,000,000 in collectibles for sale on Ebay right now (as I have argued meticulously here), but they have also left your backyard a dangerous mess.
LOL! I have been asking myself this exact same question for years! Who was the %$/%?$"%$% who filled my backyard with glass! Glass that always finds its way over the ground after winter! I collected 6 pieces this weekend.
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I'm in a house built ~1900 and while digging holes for a fence I dug up some glass, a few layers of ash and some ceramic. I hit the ash around the same depth as the ceramic and I was afraid I had uncovered someone's urn. After proceeding carefully for the next few scoops I only unearthed a few pieces and just a little ash.
ReplyDeleteI could make out some writing on the shard of ceramic, black letters on red background "Royal Oak" and what looked like part of a crest.
I learned from a neighbor that that area had been filled in decades before.
My grandfather's house on Cape Cod was apparently built on the site of an 1880s Christian revival camp chatauqua dump site...old antique bottles would resurface after some winters, which we have since sold for hundreds of dollars each.
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents Victorian house was (and still is) at the corner of Wellington and Bourgeois street in Pointe St Charles and until the 1960's, stood an old Victorian stable in the back yard which had a wooden bridge running from the hay loft to the kitchen which was on the upper floor. My mom used to go in there as a kid and read the old 1930's movie star magazines that were stored in the hay loft. She said it was full of all old stuff from people my grandparents moved in there. My grandfather demolised the old stable sometime in the late 60's and then my sister and I as a kid in the 1980's, we used to dig in the ground and find old horse shoe nails, a horse shoe and my mom even found a penny from 1894! We were always digging up old rusty things. I wish my grandparents were still alive and that they still lived in the house (they sold it in 1986 after my grandfather got cancer) so I could go back now and dig for some more stuff :)
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