New House Blog: Episode XXXXII - Artifacts, The Universe, And Everything

As foretold in this Episode, we are devoting this entire Episode to an examination and exploration of artifacts discovered during our Back Yard Archaeology excavations.  On with the show.

Artifact Extravaganza

Here we go.  We start with this innocuous-looking string.  It was found near the famous sand pit in the back yard.

Next we move on to this innocuous-looking length of electrical tape.  I do not remember precisely where it was found.  It's possible that it was found attached to some of the romex in the buried conduit in the back yard.

Onward we go with this collection of miscellaneous materials.

I'm not sure what some of this stuff is, so I just lumped it all together.











I found several pieces of this yellowish foam.  Aliens and pirates would not likely have a use for it, and I don't know where it would go on a hot tub.

Also unknown to me is where these plastic sheeting fragments fit in.  Could they be the skin of some alien spacecraft, or some alien?

Here's some more plastic, this time in the form of miscellaneous hard pieces.

I think I recognize a couple of pieces in this pile.











This pile shows us that the pre-Bishopians had knowledge of metal and metal use.

Also made of metal are these nails, bolts, and screws.  Again I am forced to wonder why the pre-Bishopians used so much rusty metal.  Did they know something about rusty metal that we don't know?

Not made of metal are these small colored beads.

We have found a lot more beads than these, but they are hard to keep around.  The seem to roll away quite easily, and because of their small size they are often lost.  We have found blue beads in addition to the greenish and white, and they have been found all over the back yard, and a few have been found inside the house.  Were they used for trade by the pre-Bishopians?  Were they part of some kind of pirate cache?


This artifact combines metal and plastic.  It appears to be related to modern swimming pool apparatus, which might tend to support the hot tub theory.  Or it could be part of an alien spacecraft; because of its fragmented state there's no way to know for sure.

One of the more surprising finds was this old CD-R.

 From this we can tell that the pre-Bishopians had access to inferior technology - it's only a 650Mb CD.

It appears that this disk has data written to it, but it is too far gone for us to probe its secrets.  Perhaps it contains a treasure map.  Perhaps it contains a map to the aliens' home planet.  We'll never know.


These ancient timbers are either from support posts for a hot tub or they are from an ancient pirate ship.

Lending credence to the whole pirate theory are these shell fragments.  Shells are typically found near the sea, and pirates typically sailed on the seas.

What kinds of animals are these bones from?  Our leading theory is that they were from food animals, such as chicken and pork, but there are a couple of mystery bones we know nothing about.

What kind of animals are these bones from?

Any information about these two bones would be greatly appreciated.  It's possible that they were left behind by the aliens.







Our only monetary find, to date, is this coin.

 It appears to be made of red plastic, and my research shows that it is likely from an ancient cash register toy set.  I have not yet determined its actual cash value.

The most numerous artifacts are, without question, these blue tiles.  I will let you all know when I have re-created the mosaic that was composed of these tiles.

Finally we have this chunk of asphalt.  Or is it really a meteorite?

So many artifacts, so little
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