As you might guess, yard excavation can sometimes yield interesting relics of ages past. We've discovered lots of little treasures, mostly mundane artifacts of daily life (spark plugs, nails, bits of glass and pottery, light bulb bases, and the like). We even found a little metal toy car. The coolest things though, in our opinion, are the bricks themselves. We've found at least 9 different stamps on the paving bricks, mostly from the Peebles Paving Brick Company. Here are a few (don't mind the water marks):
PEEBLES BLOCK------- 1908 -------
PORTSMOUTH O.
KENTUCKY ---------------- BLOCK
PORTSMOUTH---------- BLOCK
CARLYLESCIOTOVILLE
BLOCK
PEEBLES BLOCKPORTSMOUTH
There are lots of other stamps, mostly variations on these, but these are just a few I pulled from the top of the stack and rinsed off with the hose to photograph.
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