A couple of months ago I took a class at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on making a rain garden. You can see my post here. The teacher told us about different soil types (sandy, clay, etc.) and said that in Brooklyn you often have “rubble”. What the??? Well, they build and tear down a lot of buildings here and that leads to a lot of rubble. And if you’ve seen some of the construction here, you won’t be surprised that a lot of it isn’t disposed of properly.
Turns out I have sandy rubble soil. Every time it rains, and often even when it doesn’t I have big pieces of glass or pottery come to the surface of my yard. If it wasn’t so annoying with a kid and chickens, it would be kind of interesting archaelogically. I found a soda pull tab this summer. When did they stop making those? I’ve found a coin for a porno booth (at least that is what I think it is because it had pretty racy imagery on it). But the latest thing to erupt to the surface of my yard was this:
Holy guacamole! I totally freaked out. I saw this on the way to the chicken coop right before it was time to leave for the Berkshires last week. I asked Neil to come to the garden and tried to get Lindsay inside, but she didn’t want to go. I didn’t really want to alert her to the teeth (that I thought were human) sticking out of the ground. We ended up going away and hoping that our neighbor, who was chicken sitting wouldn’t find them and call the police. “Yes, I think my neighbors are burying bodies in their back garden.” Actually, a Gotti supposedly lived in this building, but I think mafia dons are like dogs and don’t want to dirty their own dens. He would probably bury his enemies in someone else’s yard I’m guessing.
So when we got back I decided to do a little excavation. Fortunately there was nothing other than the teeth. And fortunately the teeth didn’t turn out to be human. My guess is that they are from a dog. Any thoughts? It’s still pretty gross to find teeth in your garden. It’s kind of amazing how much the soil moves that after living here 15 years new things are surfacing. I blame the worms.
There’s a flickr group called “ID Please.” I’ll bet you could get an answer, there.
That’s really freaky.
(I did find a couple of human teeth in the alley over the years in Baltimore.)
Crazy!! I have found marbles and of course shards of glass, but nothing like teeth!
I didn’t love the other stuff that came up in my garden, but the teeth were just too gross. Made me feel as though my yard was part of a crime scene. I’m just saying that they are dog’s teeth…
My son found teeth like that on the farm he attends school at. We spent all day trying to figure it out. They are bear teeth, probably brown bear teeth!
Bear teeth? Yikes. We have raccoons and opossums in Brooklyn, but no brown bears that I know of. I thought they might be dog molars.