Northeast Gardening: Stones, rocks, boulders and erratics 2, 1 by DonnieBrook

DonnieBrook wrote:
Jo Ann - we knew it was a marble because they were pretty common in that time period. We've seen many of them in museums and antique stores around here. In a way I wish I had kept it. The day we found it, we had taken my college roommate's family on a hike back there, and I gave the marble to her 10-year-old son.

Nance - Yes! The enjoyment we get out of the outdoor fireplace/BBQ that was built on the foundation stones made it worth all of the effort! We dug up the bricks in that area that were part of the original beehive oven and Hank reconstructed a fireplace we could use to cook corn on the cob and stews and hot dogs. We put the decorative old bricks that had a scalloped edge up on the top of the chimney to the fireplace. We also put a grinding stone from the property into the face of the chimney. In this photo you can see a bit of the fireplace/chimney etc.

Candyce - how exciting to find those old artifacts! We too found a baby oxen's shoe when we were digging beneath our living room addition. The clay pipe must be very cool!