A Metal Bird I Found Digging in the Garden - Any Clues?

well of course.........flamingo's eat shrimp !!!

 

Oh, Shangas, I do apologize! I posted the wrong picture. This is the critter the post was supposed to be about. Metallic electric blue flamingos are rarely seen in Indiana so it was quite an accomplishment to find one!

 

And the ever elusive Shangastank genus at that!

 

*light bulb turning on overhead*
GOOD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It's gratifying to see that you got there in the end! Haha!!

 

Its a nice find and will look lovely displayed in the garden.
It does look old and may well be associated with your house. All I turn up I'm my garden is rubble

 

When I had a garden, I grew good rocks. Not an arrow head in the lot either; it was all chunks of sandstone or some other random sedimentary whatsit left over from when the last glacier went through.

 

I got very lucky here. The land had been farmed for so long that it's good soil and very easy to dig. But the house we are rehabbing had a lot of ivy beds that I am digging out. So I am constantly finding old junk like broken glass, candy wrappers, parts of toys, gas line marking flags, etc. This is the first time I found anything interesting.
Don

 

How exciting, Who knows what goodies you might unearth.
The Victorians had a habit of burying their rubbish....No bin men in those days.

 

They DIDDD, Ivy??
I did not know that.

 

Yes they had dumps, A few miles away from us some years back a dump was found on the site where a victorian house once stood, By the time we heard about it it had been well dug over so we didn't find much, Just a few green glass bottles.

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/paralle...oots-of-modern-waste-in-victorian-era-rubbish

Here you go.

 

Bottle dumps were common on farms; they're called bottle dumps, but all of the garbage went into them. Farmers didn't pitch much, but glass bottles often went in, as did broken crockery. One of mom's late cousins lined half her kitchen walls in bottles she dug up in the 50s, when she was young and crazy. Look for an old farmstead which may or may not still have a house on it, and look for a nearby depression in the ground. Odds are decent it's either an old outhouse site, also a place to dig, or a bottle dump.

 

Now all I need is an old area to search. I'm getting a metal detector for my birthday in a few months!

THANK YOU, both!

 

You're welcome, Happy digging, hope you find something amazing.

 

Y'all will be the first to know!

 

Hi,
Growing up on a farm I will confirm the bottle dumps. Every day I had to empty the trash and burn everything except glass, that went to the dumping ground. The barrel when it was full of burned stuff was moved to the soap making area.
Water poured into the barrel leaked out the bottom which was turned to lye. The lye was used to make soap. The metal cans were burned in a separate barrel and when full was dumped into another pit.
greg

 

See what happens when I leave a title alone...

 

The EPA should slap heavy fines and take those glaciers into custody!

 

Geological littering!