Virgin site turns out to be TOO virgin...

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The manufacturing plant I work at has a huge grassy lot behind it that has been...well, a huge grassy lot since before the plant was built in 1957. Over the years, the company softball team has played there, and there was once a small pavilion for outdoor barbecues. Since it's on private property surrounded by barbed-wire fences (which I know aren't insurmountable), it hasn't had a whole lot of people traffic. Even the softball games, I'm told, were limited to one corner of the field. So this week, thinking it'd be a great opportunity I (with the encouragement of my department) stashed my MD in my office and set out each day after work.

When you see the pictures you'll understand why I say it's too virgin:

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These are 2 legacy flow controllers produced by my company in the 1990s
Found them about fourteen inches down, the only reason I bothered is that the dirt was soft lol
(no one in my department seems to know how they got there..... :dontknow:)


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The saw was buried about 2 inches down, 3 feet from the flow controllers


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I have no idea what those name tags could have been for, and they weren't in the same hole.
The other thing is a Warning! tag reminding the operator to disconnect the power before disassembly.


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The spoon, name tags, and warning plate were in the same corner of this field.


I'm not finished with the place yet - still got about half of it left, and that will be my task for next week. I've only found a nickel and 5 memorial pennies, which is what has surprised me the most.
 

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The name tags are a neat find though! I wonder what they belong to?
 

I believe your 2 tags with name and town/state are trap tags, used to identify the owner of a trap should a landowner or game warden want to know.
 

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