November 15, 2008 6:06 pm
Backyarchaeology: Bullet Time
Posted by Will under backyarchaeology
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It’s been awhile since our infamously fascinating backyard has given up another tidbit of its mystery/history, but today’s find marks one of the more intriguing in that I’m fairly certain during a long overdue raking session this morning I unearthed the above-pictured hunk of lead whose size and shape seems indicative of a bullet and whose damaged point leads me to believe it was fired. As in from a gun.
Being nothing of a ballistician I can only guess at the caliber of the projectile. A .38 or .357 mayhaps?
But the bigger question is what might have prompted its launch and at what or whom was it fired?
November 16th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Will – there was a great talk at the LAPL today. One of the speakers mentioned that one of the bizarre things about Los Angeles is the fact that there’s been only a handful of sustained archaeological projects in the city. It’s as though – as a general urban populace – we just don’t think that there’s anything to find.
Other brief thoughts on history here.
Cheers, Timur
November 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
you always find the coolest things in your yard; please forgive the question but have you considered letting a group from one of the local universities study your backyard?? It seems like so many of the things you find are so close to the surface.. who knows what lurks a couple feet down? =)
November 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Thanks Pamela! It’s a great question, and while I’m not all that partial to strangers digging around the house (especially if they might find a body that goes with that bullet!), the exploratory conditions are ideal given our backyard’s longstanding undeveloped state
It might be a project worth incorporating whenever we get around to landscaping the place.