"Ah, yes. Old building materials," she nodded sagely.
Digging out the tough desert grass before building my new beds this year, I found dozens upon dozens of hand-forged iron nails, a pair of hinge pins of the same origin, and my son found a hand-forged rock drill and a large hand-cut brick from when the property used to be Fort Sanders during the Territory period.
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Date: 2013-07-19 02:04 pm (UTC)Digging out the tough desert grass before building my new beds this year, I found dozens upon dozens of hand-forged iron nails, a pair of hinge pins of the same origin, and my son found a hand-forged rock drill and a large hand-cut brick from when the property used to be Fort Sanders during the Territory period.
It was all very archaeological.