Anyone know what this is?

[jbryant]

[QUOTE=vash;5061448]i love excavations!!! you never know what you will find.

i have found antique marbles, bottles, etc. in elpaso, texas we found an entire uniformed soldier buried with his rifle. effen awesome."

Where I am in Virginia we mostly find arrow heads (by the truck load)...and the odd civil war buckle, etc...tons of civil war bullets though...
We are generally small farm jobs so no work stoppages as a rule.
This find was a while back and the operator did not say anything for a few months...I guess in this economy he did not want to get laid off for a month while VDHR investigated the site!
So he kept his mouth shut about it!
Most large jobs have to have an archeology study/report with shovel & sifting every few yards before work starts.


What type of soldier did you find?
I can't imagine doing excavation in Europe...those guys must find crazy stuff...

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by jbryant

Found this on a jobsite (excavation)...what is it?

Looks like some kinda tooth...Perfect condition.







Thanks!

Jim

your hands are mighty clean for a workin' man!

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by vash

you find an ancient priivy (outhouse) and we tape off the hole.

My ex-father-in-law was a bottle collector. He spent HOURS pouring over old maps, looking for old houses that were no longer there. His goal was to find the house dump and the series of house privy's. He only collected bottles which were old enough to have pontal marks.

I collected some bottles from antique shows, to use for beer brewing. In the process, they came with some "extra" bottles. Most were junk. One was worth something. I just let him have it. Might have been worth a couple of hundred. He had bottles in his collection worth tens of thousands. Very early, pre-1700, bottles in the USA.

[GG Allin]

Does he call his bottles spoons?

[jbryant]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

your hands are mighty clean for a workin' man!

My hands have been dirty plenty! I worked my way up the food chain though and they stay clean half the week now...

[vash]

trade you a killer arrow head for an old hand rolled antique marble!

soldier? it's been about 11 years. i searched the elpaso, TIMES archives and turned up squat. i dont know what type of soldier it was...i cannot find my pic, or remember the uniform. maybe someone in general pershings army?

[jbryant]

Anyone have an idea on what he can sell it for?
A couple of grand?

[NineOhOne]

Originally Posted by jbryant

Anyone have an idea on what he can sell it for?
A couple of grand?

There are 845 currently listed on E-Bay (I guess everyone who had one in their sock drawer saw last weeks "Pawn Stars" episode), ranging from a high of $2850.00 to a low of $0.01.

The highest-priced "sold" tooth was $2250.00.

It appears that, just like any other collectible, condition & size is everything.

[Tobra]

Very cool, how big is that damn thing?

[porsche4life]

Looks like about the size of a hand...

[jbryant]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Very cool, how big is that damn thing?

It about 7"X 4".

[M.D. Holloway]

There may very well be more, sure could shut down the work site if you get the 'experts' involved...

[BeyGon]

I would have it checked out, we have many really good looking fakes around the office, the soils guys send them out every Christmas.