One of my favorite artifact photos this year. Looks like an old converse, probably from the 1950s. You can just make out the eyelets in the moss. I didn't dare disturb such a precious reminder of days gone.
I so often encounter historic and sometimes prehistoric artifacts “in the wild” (meaning I don’t collect them but leave them in situ for others to enjoy or to return for proper collection and documentation later).
Chris Webster of The Archaeology Podcast Network just posted a photo of a Log Cabin syrup tin from the early 1900s by Jake Jacobsen on Facebook and that’s my inspiration for the photos below. I’ve re-sized them to be small for quick loading, added a few descriptive captions, and stripped them of any georeferencing. Unless otherwise stated, all photos are my own.
One of my favorite artifact photos this year. Looks like an old converse, probably from the 1950s. You can just make out the eyelets in the moss. I didn’t dare disturb such a precious reminder of days gone.
A phenomenon I always love to see: in the dead of winter a bit of green surviving in a terrarium created by an historic jar.
Truly a piece of electronic history. This vacuum tube is an early semiconductor before solid state transistors which were, in turn, before integrated circuits.
This was once a well-traveled bridge. Originally built in the 1920s to cross Panther Creek, it was moved in the 1930s before Kentucky Lake was created and placed over Prior Creek in the 1950s (stored somewhere in the meantime).
This bus was once the home of an African American man that lived on LBL. TVA had the tendency to turn things over if they left it when LBL was created.
An overturned truck near a wolf tree (probably an oak) on an old dairy farm reclaimed by the forest.
Metal strapping or part of a farm implement near a really, really old tobacco barn.
An old farm implement in the Hog Jaw region of LBL. Probably a thresher.
Blue bottle, replaced in its original location after photographing.
Pair of little blue bottles keeping each other company through the ages. They’ve probably sat side-by-side since the 1940s.
An old caro syrup bottle.
A farm implement in the Malloy Bay area of LBL.
Replaced in its original location after photographing.
A old hubcap, probably from the 50s, lodged in a tree -probably placed as a marker for a driveway.
Replaced in its original location after photographing.
Replaced in its original location after photographing.
Replaced in its original location after photographing.
Replaced in its original location after photographing.
Professional archaeologist that currently works for the United States Forest Service at the Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee. I'm also a 12-year veteran of the U.S. Army and spent another 10 years doing adventure programming with at-risk teens before earning my master's degree at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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