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~2” bullet-shaped, less than 1oz, found when digging in my yard
I found hundreds of these items when digging up the topsoil in our yard. The building we live in is an old movie theater (built around 1936) and the yard is behind an adjoining building that functioned as a barbershop, I assume it was built around the same time.
They are are several sizes, have a hole drilled in the center end-to-end and are lightweight. They don’t seem to be made of plastic, ceramic, or metal and you can make marks/write with them—so maybe some kind of carbon material? They’re not brittle, or easily damaged. As you can see in the bin, I also find a huge amount of broken glass, pottery, and nails, so it seems like people just left their trash here. Nothing has burn marks, and I don’t typically find plastic when digging.
Thanks!
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Wooden dowel with magnet arranged in a “T” at one end, painted red, with the other end painted green (antique, pen for scale)
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Tiny plastic flap on the side of my jet lighter. Approx 2cm x 1cm. On a hinge for closing
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Little square plastic with a circular transparent glass or plastic window on it. Found in my car after a detail.
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Probe Technology 1983 C48-SXL Rev. D. 10” x 10.5” thin, rigid plastic sheet with metallic gold overlay. When I Google the text I see that there are green circuit card assemblies with this name - is this part of the manufacturing process for those? Perhaps something for the molding of the plastic?
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Weird rubbery white thing I found whilst cleaning. Nothing else like it around. We have also had mice in our home in past months. Is it something dangerous?
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