Vent: My backyard dig revealed a 1930s trash pit and I can't stop thinking about it

Last week I was putting in a new fence post in my yard here in Tucson and hit a layer of old glass bottles and rusted cans. Dug down maybe 2 feet and found a whole pit full of stuff from the 1930s, like medicine bottles and a broken doll head. It hit me how people just buried their trash back then, and now I'm looking at my own trash cans different. Has anyone else stumbled on old trash pits or privies while doing regular yard work? How do you even figure out what's worth keeping?

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jaken231mo ago

Man that's wild, finding a whole time capsule like that in your own yard really puts things in perspective. Hope you kept that doll head, old glass bottles can be pretty neat to display.

blake_smith1mo ago

Last year I woulda called this junk but now I totally get the appeal.