I might have put some of these up before so bear with me. From the things I've been finding here in this corner of Kent, there's been people living here since the ice retreated about 10 thousand years ago. I've found Mesolithic tools, Celtic tokens, Roman glass and ceramics, Saxon pottery, Medieval tiles and then the usual later stuff like money and pottery. I'll take some pics of more finds tomorrow but for now here's a few bits and pieces Mesolithic arrowhead This should have had another notch cut out of it to take a cord lashing but it hasn't been finished. I'm guessing that it pinged off someone's leg while they were making it and wasn't found again till I dug it up
I sometimes wonder what future archeologists would find - If something happened to our civilizations, and humanity rebooted again after several aeons??? Plastic doesn't degrade, so lots of that will still be around... Machinery made out of metal also wouldn't go away so easily... Many books, information, too will be preserved in some pockets, (like the dead see scrolls). Data stored on magnetic and optical media too will survive... But most embarrassingly, where we today find pottery and tools around riverbanks. Future archeologists will find discarded murder weapons, (which criminals throw away to get rid of evidence). However this isn't likely to happen. Because we have today attained spaceflight. So humanity has already left marks on the Moon, Venus, and Mars. As well as on some Moons of Jupiter. Plus some Astroids too, including space-junk in orbit. And there are places on Earth were we have detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons underground, (which future archeologists will immediately recognize as marks of a society which had some pretty advanced technology). So we are never going to go out of existence that easily. Not unless there's an extinction level event (ELE). Which killed off the dinosaurs - Even after that, we have left a solid mark in the cosmos, like the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecrafts that have now gone out of our solar system. Therefore no, not likely to happen, we aren't going to be forgotten. Because within the next 25 years humanity will be living in space too, (on the the Moon at least, but maybe on Mars also). So even an ELE on Earth will not finish us off. Because we will live to see the first humans born off Earth. But sometimes I still do wonder, what if...
Plastic does break down Shahbaz, seen a lot of it become brittle and degrade. Only yesterday the plastic top of a petrol can broke up in my hands I've seen layers of coal in river banks where coal barges have sunk in the past. There will be some "interesting" layers of geology in the future. I've seen the Dead Sea scrolls, they are very old
This is another Mesolithic tool, one that was probably used for stripping the bark from arrow shafts or cleaning off sinew. The notch in the top has been chipped to form a blade, only thing about this one is that it didn't work with my right hand. It had been made to use by holding in the left hand. This might be one of, if not the earliest left handed tools in existance
Moving on to historic times, the ring on the left is bronze, probably Celtic although possibly Roman. Ignore the one on the right which is probably 1970's
thanks @ zigs for posting your findings. I would love to find something. The town nearest me is called "Battle Ground". You might think you could find arrowheads or bullet casings here, maybe the odd cannon ball. However, the town was named sarcastically. A military captain had negotiated with the Klikitat tribal leaders after a disagreement. Apparently the colonists were hoping for a battle, but the Klikitat people kept their side of the agreement and there was no battle. The locals gave the area the snarky name of "Battle Ground", to mock the army captain. So, no battle artifacts. In my yard, there was a large mound of soil that did not match the contour of the land. I decided to level it, using the soil as part of went into my raised beds. I wondered if removing it might reveal a treasure trove, or if there might be a skeleton or two there, or even DB Cooper's backpack, but no, just some old fencing. My next door neighbor told me that my house was a sort of a commune with multiple couples. She might have been pulling my leg. The only commune I know about was the Rajneeshi cult. They were in Oregon, and there's no history of them that I know of here. That doesn't mean that a less dramatic group was here. Regardless, they left no artifacts. The only object that I found was a wooden spoon that had fallen behind the stove. It was nothing special.
More like Corporal Jones of Dad's Army Shahbaz - Don't Panic @Daniel W Wooden spoon is better than nothing I've found old shoes and money hidden in buildings as part of the ritual protection against evil spirits (Could do with some of that in the UK at the moment ) If you've had a settlement there for any length of time there will be somewhere that they used to dump the rubbish before garbage men were invented. Apparently the woods at Pond Bottom is the place to look here but I've not checked it out yet.
More Roman stuff today, this is part of a dinner plate, probably means there was a villa here as it's not the sort of thing that would have travelled far from a dwelling...
