Post your unusual out of place finds.

[BC1969]

I'll start with this insulator.
Typically found along railroad tracks on the poles.
This one was found 35 miles from any tracks, in the middle of the woods.
There was a homesite in the area.
The homesite is a half mile from where it was found.
Why was it there?

I'll never know, but that's okay.
The thrill of discovery is what it is all about.
Contemplating the who, how's and why's.

 

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[GB1]

i have found a
Merry widows tin in the middle of the woods with no other signals around.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

A Spanish reale in a children's playground!

 

[bologna321]

Guitar tuner near a cave entrance in the middle of the woods
M1 garand clip full of blanks near a park playground
Brass 1970's custodial workers tag 2" down out in the woods

 

[flinthunter]

When I was young we still used the old oak telephone. The phone line was strung using the old glass insulators.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Very worn 1758 Spanish silver, front yard of a home here in lower Mich.

 

[Tiredman]

A gold ring cleaning out a car we were selling. Stuck down in the back seat.

 

[chatterbait]

We were removing a pair of steps.Jackhammering this thing like crazy.It had rebar,pipe,chickenwire and chainlink fence in it.General contractor walks up and says everything but the kitchen sink........Yep found it.All of us laughed so hard.
Now you know who ever put that in there probably 50+ years ago wanted to see my face when I hit that thing.

 

[A2coins]

1907 Jamestown exposition coin in a park in Mich

 

[A2coins]

A WW2 hat pin in Ann Arbor in the woods go figure that one.

 

[coinman123]

Great idea for a thread!

My first ever colonial artifact was an old dropped musket ball in a soccer field.

I also found a pair of WWI dog tags in a 1920's-1950's trash pile that was randomly at a colonial site, they are now on loan in a WWI exhibit in a local museum. The weirdest part was that the trash pit was in an area that showed no indication of having any activity from after around 1840, other than hunters. It was a huge trash pile, with hundreds of bottles, ceramics, even car parts and lawn mowers. Maps showed no nearby houses at that site during that time, and I didn't find a single relic or coin at the whole site that dated from after the first half of the 1800's.

Another interesting find was a 1650's French Liard, next to a small stream on land that wasn't settled until the mid 1700's by Irish farmers. It seemed a bit out of place for that site, woods that never had a house site or any heavy human traffic, and in three hunts produced nothing besides that coin and a shoe buckle fragment.

My most out of place find is probably a live WWII 50 caliber anti aircraft round, that was found under a slab of rock near a cellar hole in the middle of the woods. I'm lucky I didn't hit it with the shovel, because it likely has an explosive tip to pierce through armor.

 

[BC1969]

Very worn 1758 Spanish silver, front yard of a home here in lower Mich.

You've got me beat for SE Michigan foreign coin find.
My oldest foreign coin to date.

Found by a old homesite next to Pontiac lake.