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    what is it?

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    what is it?

    Found this in foundation wall with some shells....any ideas? I'm guessing after 1900..
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    Brick

    Wow! Brick collectors? I'm in the process of digging in the backyard of my 1790's home and have found at least a dozen bricks that say NEBCo on them...I assumed a brick is a brick, but maybe I should grab them out of the trash pile?
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    Question about digging

    Awesome, I'm getting antsy! I recently moved into a home built in the 1790's and have never dug before! I guess I'm curious as to why there are layers of ash? What is the purpose? I dug a little around the edges of the hole today and found some coins...2 are corroded and can't be read at ALL...
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    Question about digging

    I have been MD'ing around my home for the first time, and have a question...I recently found an area about 15 feet from the back door..at first I found an old crock pot, some broken glass, square nails etc, then about 6 inches down I hit a layer of ash and coals. Under that I found a 1934...
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    Crazy foundation finds

    We are in Massachusetts. No lie, when I pulled it out of the wall and realized what it was I had a flashback of Poltergeist and pictures ghosts swirling around my house..."go to the light, Caroline.." Lol
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    Crazy foundation finds

    Some more finds in the same wall..
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    Crazy foundation finds

    Found in the corner of the wall
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    Crazy foundation finds

    No it is not animal hide..just dusty old cloth, it is in the picture with the bone. We are from the Blackstone Valley area. In Massachusetts.
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    Crazy foundation finds

    Very interesting about Native American possibilities...our home is actually on land that one of The Nipmuc tribes had settled near...interesting....
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    Crazy foundation finds

    Not cool, I was hoping that somebody would tell me that it's a completely normal tradition to put bone and pendants in a foundation lol...but in my head I knew it wasn't...
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    Crazy foundation finds

    Behind a stone on the west side wall of the home..so far we have deed searched the home back to 1745 but are not done
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    Crazy foundation finds

    It's downright creepy to me! I can't seem to get any info on the significance of it all though. And the museum that I had it checked out at was very "interested" in the pendant
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    Crazy foundation finds

    So why wouldn't the dogs name be on it? And I already got the bone checked out..it's a small child's radius bone
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    Crazy foundation finds

    Lol right?!
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    Crazy foundation finds

    At first i thought butter stamp but It is not flat..has a bit of a curve to it..Im stumped
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    Crazy foundation finds

    Was found wrapped with this..
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    Crazy foundation finds

    While digging in my basement and looking for coins in the wall (17?? Home) I came a cross this clay pendant wrapped in cloth with a bone...obviously not the coins I was hoping to find...does anyone know what this is or why it was put behind the stones? This is clearly unsettling, and any info...
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    hard white layer while digging

    Has anyone come across a hard white layer while digging? It is about a half inch thick..almost like cement but breaks easily? About a foot down..if so, what is it?
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    new digger

    Ugh..its very frustrating because i have been finding chunks of glass basically everywhere through out the yard : / definately old thick blues and such..the land close to the house i have found to be very rocky then almost orange soil underneath in a few spots. How do you know when to stop...

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