Dug up a 50 year old beer can in my backyard last week thought it was ancient pottery

So I was digging a hole for a new fence post in my yard in Denver last Saturday and hit something hard. I got all excited thinking it was maybe a arrowhead or some old tool from settlers or whatever. Turned out it was a rusty Coors can from like the 1970s, still had a little dried up beer inside. My neighbor came over and we had a good laugh about it, but now I'm wondering if I should start a collection of old trash or actually dig deeper to see if there's real stuff underneath. Anyone else find something funny that looked ancient but was just junk?

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alice24224d ago

Jump right in and dig deeper for sure. I live in an old mining town in Colorado and people find all sorts of weird stuff just a few feet down. Last summer my uncle dug up a old horseshoe and a glass bottle from the 1800s in his backyard, but it took a half dozen tries to get past the rusty cans and broken toys from the 70s. You might hit a trash pit from when the house was built, which could have some cool old bottles or even a lost coin. Plus the beer can itself is kinda cool if you clean it up and set it on a shelf. No harm in poking around a little more, just don't expect everything to be a buried treasure.

kevin_schmidt9724d ago

Hang in there, I've definitely been there before. It's frustrating to dig up something that looks cool at first and then realize it's just old trash from a few decades ago. Keep at it though, you never know what else might be hiding just a little deeper down.