Crazy foundation finds

[squibby17]

Some more finds in the same wall..

 

[coldwater diver]

Hi Squibby,
I think Plumbata is on the right track I would definitely put that onto other forums as mentioned and native american blogs or sites. Someone may recognize that pattern or symbol. That second photo looks like more bone fragments and pieces.

 

[THE BADGER]

i think it looks like a regiment button from the revolutionary war. badger

 

[Sir.Bottles]

It's SPOOKY but cool...nice find[]

 

[frozenmonkeyface]

Various grave goods were deposited alongside the bodies inside the passage. Excavations that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s revealed seven 'marbles', four pendants, two beads, a used flint flake, a bone chisel and fragments of bone pins and points.

This is a passage from this website : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

Maybe the term "grave goods" could help in some way?
I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source... but maybe that will help?

 

[frozenmonkeyface]

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/cairn/deconstructed.html

Near the end of the page is a photo of a "grave good" that is similar in shape to yours. It doesn't have the same symbol thought.

 

[frozenmonkeyface]

What state did you say you were from?

 

[deepbluedigger]

It was a very common practice (probably pretty much routine) on this side of the Atlantic for people to place items in foundations, walls, chimneys, under doorsteps,under hearthstones, in roofs of their homes (in fact pretty much anywhere in the fabric of a house) as good luck charms, to ward off evil spirits, etc, etc, well into the 18th century, and even in the 19th century in some areas.

If your house dates to the 1700s then I'd expect that pendant and bone werethat kind of thing.

Bottles are also a pretty common find. Not just witch bottles (here's an American one) but any kind of bottle including empty ones. For example, "A Staffordshire remedy [was] to hang an empty glass bottle up the chimney". Here are some very cool bottles from one such find, including a nice Daffy's.

 

[frozenmonkeyface]

Its very cool/interesting and a bit creepy. haha

 

[squibby17]

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