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I have not been digging in my current pond, but my family had some pond work done when I was a kid. 3 small tanks were dug out for livestock and one old pond was drained and deepened. We used the same guy to put up some pipe fencing and checking one day we found a bunch of pottery shards and broken arrowheads in practically every hole. We ended up calling in the sherrif when the guy would not give us what he had dug up, and when he checked the guys house it was full of artifacts from everyones' place he had worked at. The sherrif made the guy give all of it to the local college, a couple thousand arrowheads(whole and broken), trash cans full of pottery shards, some more modern stuff. Our property was on the highest hill around and the archeoligists etimated the hill had been used as a campsite for over 1000 years.

Nice story, j-3.

Lots of great stories.

All I ever seem to find are parts that fell off my tractor or implements.

Last summer I did find a 1940s-1950s coke bottle in what is now my garden. And, according to neighbors, we had what was reportedly Patsy Cline's outhouse in our backyard when we bought this place. My wife said the outhouse, with pink toilet seats and a tin roof, was an eyesore. I burned it down.

I worked a job last November running the service crane with a company drilling caissons piling holes to build a building on, these holes were 60 inches in diameter and as deep as 50 feet in some cases. I was amazed at the bottles the drill would bring up, we found bottle after bottle, unbroken too, the drill would auger in and then pick the entire load up and out of the hole, auger would reverse to empty itself, and you could pick the bottles right off the top of the pile. This was on the bayfront of Lake Erie and some of that stuff was down a good 20 feet, I understand it was all filled in some 50 years ago, we were drilling it up again, strange stuff.

I too am making my first post. Glad to have found this site! My grandfather in the Lansing area of Michigan found a caribou antler in one of his ponds when enlargening it. An old farmer, he also stumbled across mastedon bones on one of his farms. He donated those to Michigan State University. The lucky bugger also found oil on his property!

Greetings and welcome, NTCPA.

FWIW, I'm not sure we have any typical CPAs here. Ours all appear to be superior folk in one or more aspects.

Some great finds. Arrowheads/shark teeth...prehistoric. You would think with as big as a hole we dug, we would have found some great finds (it wasn't because I wasn't looking). Great stories.

Oil is the best I ever heard of.

Jimmy Hoffa?

All kidding aside. My grandfather dug up a tire with a solid stell rim still in it. The tire was solid rubber. We couldn't pry it up (We were digging a water hole by hand). Hooked a tractor to it and finally got it out. Along with the axle, the other tire and the drive shaft all attached but nothing else. Weird.

fossilized Miocene Megalolepomis spawning beds

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Oil the best;;Moonshine still second best